Mobile Movies
Mobile Movies, a project from ICDC is a mobile phone film making initiative which has been funded by Mediabox - a £6 million fund for disadvantaged young people aged 13-19 living in England from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). Mediabox awards grants for creative media projects, such as short films, radio programmes, print, games and online projects.
Altogether, over 110 young people aged 13-19 from Merseyside and the North West were involved in the project, taking part in designing the website, learning how to produce broadcast quality films, attending screening events, gaining work experience and running their own bursary scheme media arts projects.
The resulting films were uploaded to the Mobile Movies website which the young people designed in collaboration with ICDC.
A ‘video carousel’, one of an ongoing number of pilot approaches in this field, was then designed for the Big Screen into which these same films could sit. Using a point-and-select interface similar to the Sony EyeToy, the filmmakers or members of the public could scroll through and select which film would play next in a significant break away from standard screen scheduling.