1st Edition

Smartphone Cinema Making Great Films with Your Mobile Phone

By Bart Weiss Copyright 2025
178 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

178 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

178 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

This book guides you through the process of using your phone to create different kinds of video and audio for TV, theaters, YouTube, TikTok, and podcasts. Drawing from the author’s experience teaching classes on mobile filmmaking, this resource helps you tell stories better whilst going over the techniques necessary to control the phone professionally, also covering the accessories and software... Read more

Acknowledgements

Foreword

 

Chapter 1        What This Book is About

Chapter 2        How did we get here?

Chapter 3        Computational Photography

Chapter 4        Mobile Storytelling

Chapter 5        Shooting Video on Your Phone

Chapter 6        Accessories for Smartphone Cinema

Chapter 7        Sound for Mobile Media

Chapter 8        Shooting the Interview on Mobile

Chapter 9        Editing Mobile Media

Chapter 10      Made to Be Seen on Mobile

Chapter 11       Sending Your Film to a Mobile Festival

Chapter 12      The Future of Smartphone Cinema

Chapter 13      Mobile Apps to Assist Traditional Filmmaking

Chapter 14      Resources

Biography

Bart Weiss is an award-winning independent film and video producer, director, editor, and educator. He is mostly known as the director and founder of the Dallas VideoFest and produces the TV show Frame of Mind. Bart received an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University and has taught film and video at Texas A&M's Visualization Lab, SMU, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has recently retired as an Associate Professor at UT Arlington.