Since the introduction of phone camera technology, there has been a steady increase in popularity of amateur footage shot on mobile phones, who hasn’t seen or taken part in a drink-fuelled mini flick as part and parcel of a Saturday night’s shenanigans – they doubtless seemed hilarious at the time. But are mobile phone cameras a threat to our privacy or a wholly democratic new filmmaking genre?
If you haven’t already got a mobile phone that has video capability, research suggests that by 2007, over half of all mobile phones will be video-equipped. Up to now, there has been little purpose-made professional video designed for the mobile phone market but all that is set to change and the Edinburgh Film Festival this year was host to the première of some of the first, pioneering made-for-mobile films in the Pocket Shorts project.
