smartphones and mobile media
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Amani Channel shares this presentation from SoCon10 at Kennesaw State University. "Producing Mobile Media with your Smartphone"TRANSCRIPT
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