smartphones and mobile media

Create Mobile Mediawith your Cell Phone

Amani Channelinfo@visualeyemedia.comwww.visualeyemedia.com

@visualeyemedia@urbanreporter

About Amani Channel

• Award-Winning Producer• Broadcast Journalist• Community Manager• Social Media Producer

What is a Smartphone?

“A mobile phone or connected handheld device that uses a high-level operating system, including iPhone OS, BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile, PalmOS, WebOS, Symbian, and any flavor of Linux including Android.”-Forrester Research

2010: Year of the Smartphone?

1/3 U.S. adults own a smartphone or QMD(Quick Messaging Device)

-Forrester Research

A Brief Background

• Nokia phones were among the first to allow live Web streaming (www.qik.com)• iPhone 3GS allow live streaming via Ustream.tv + application• Other applications allow video uploading to web (www.kyte.tv, www.twitvid.com)• Another option is to e-mail video

Cell Phones Break News

• 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting• 2009 Hudson Plane Crash (Twitpic)

Other Notable Phone Facts

• Dec. 2008 - First Music Video Shot with iPhone • June 2009 - iPhone 3GS Shoots News (WFOR) • Aug. 2009 - Jeremy Jojola Shoots Live Shot• Dec. 2009 - Ustream.tv Releases Live iPhone App.

Creating Mobile Media

• Create an account – Website (video/photo)• Download mobile application• Sign on to account with your phone application• Capture media• Use application to upload to the web• Hint: Use Twitter to share link + hashtag

Best Practices: Cell Phone Video

• Raw Video (un-edited) 1-2 minutes max.• Minimize background noise for interviews (no mic)• Watch lighting• Interviews: ask no more than 3 questions• Hold camera as still as possible

Create Mobile Mediawith your Cell Phone

Amani Channelinfo@visualeyemedia.comwww.visualeyemedia.com

@visualeyemedia@urbanreporter