mobile-mentary @ ICDC

I was invited by Bernadette McGrath (Digital Inclusion Co-Ordinator) to present a gust-lecture in the International Centre for Digital Content (ICDC) at the Liverpool Digital, Liverpool John Moores University.
Besides the ICDC staff a number of filmmakers who are involved in the Mobile Movies project formed a most interesting audience. We engaged in a good conversation on the subject of mobile technologies in relation to film making and the potential to work with teenagers using mobile phones. Moreover I consulted the Mobile Movies project group, talking about technical and aesthetical aspects, which were involved in the mobile-mentary production. The ICDC Mobile Movies project aims to take advantage of the pervasion of mobile phone use throughout youth culture in order to encourage young people to create innovative content with their phones and to show them how a device they carry around with them everyday can be a crucial and creative tool.