Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”

Detailed summary of the book “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”

• FOREWORD
• Who are you ?
• But shoot with a phone, is it serious ?
• Short story of the audiovisual techniques
• This book is like a toolbox
• Book Organization
• The author

• CHOOSING HIS PHONE
• Answers to questions that you ask
  • The two essential criteria for choosing a camera phone
  • Is there a better phone brand to film ?
  • All camera phones can they shoot ?
  • Can I request a demonstration to the seller of the shop ?
  • A phone filming it is much more expensive than a phone ?
  • What price do I have to buy a phone that films of good quality ?
  • Where to buy my camera phone ?
  • How long am I going to shoot ?
  • How do I know I made the right choice ?
  • If the phone’s camera is very good, can I be sure that the camera will be as good ?
  • 2G, 3G ? What relationship with the video quality of the phone ?
  • How to know the characteristics of video phones ?
  • What is the best camera-phone ?
  • Does a MP3 phone is good for filming ?
• Examples of gifted phones for video
  • Nokia 6630
  • Sharp 902SH and 903SH
  • Sharp V703
  • Nokia 6280
  • Nokia N93
  • LG Viewty

• EXPRESS SHOOTING GUIDE WITH MOBILE PHONE
• Shoot immediately
• Show your movie on the phone
• The size of the memory card
• Send your movie to someone with your phone
• Show your movie on computer
• Optimize your location
  • Set the image quality
  • Save on Memory Card
  • Enable autosave
  • Make a good sound
• Post your movie

• SUCCESSFUL SHOOTING WITH PHONE
• Mastering the phone camera
  • Have you selected the highest resolution images possible in your phone ?
  • Have you set your phone to save on the memory card and not in its internal memory ?
  • Have you checked that the phone is in “automatic recording” mode ?
  • Do you not off the microphone of your phone ?
  • Are you good in camera mode and not in camera mode ?
• Think before you shoot
• Think filming
• Outlaw zoom !
• Anticipate mounting
  • You synchronize the sound
  • Allow the action ended
  • Allow time for the action to start
  • Consider a plan equal an action or idea
• Make the mount shooting
• The shooting, his work and pleasure
• Make a beautiful picture with his phone
  • The rate of films shot with telephone
  • The particular movement of telephone pictures
  • The light
  • Framing
• Consider the image resolution and digital compression
• Make a good sound with his phone
• The specificities of creation with mobile phone
  • It was all the time a camera on itself
  • The camera in the phone is like a 3^rd eye
  • The phone is primarily a communication tool
• Examples of video images shot with telephone
  • Sony V800, with the only possible resolution, 176x144
  • Nokia 6630 with the sole possible resolution 176x144
  • Sharp V902SH, resolution of 176x144
  • Sharp V902SH the resolution of 352x288
  • Sharp V703 at the maximum resolution of 320x240
  • Nokia 6280 with the maximum resolution of 640x484

• SUCCESSFUL EDITING
• The editing software built into phones
• Transfer movies from the phone to the computer
  • A cable between the phone and the computer ?
  • Wireless connection: Bluetooth
  • The memory card required !
  • Memory cards templates
  • The transfer of the memory card to the computer
  • The transfer of rushes by email
• 3GP files reminder
• Playback movies shot with telephone
  • Quicktime player
  • VLC
• Save your movies
• Organize your data
  • Remember backups
• Make arrangements for mounting
  • Organize mounting a professional film
  • Organize your home movies
• Easy installation with Quicktime Pro
  • Method of working with Quicktime Pro
• Video editing on Macintosh
  • IMovie
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Convert 3GP DV PAL
• Video editing on Windows PC
  • Video Conversion with Super Erightsoft
  • What video editing software used on PC ?
• Online editing software

• DISTRIBUTION AND KEEP HIS FILM
• Build your master
  • DV PAL (for Macintosh)
  • The MPEG1 (Macintosh)
  • Installing FFMPEGX
  • DV Pal (Windows PC)
• The spread on his phone
  • FFMEPG X on Macintosh
  • SUPER Windows PC
  • Quicktime Pro for PC and Macintosh
• The distribution on CD Rom
• The spread on community video sites
• The spread on its own website
  • The FLV
  • Put Video to FLV in a web page
• The spread on DVD
  • The conservation DVD
  • How to Create a DVD video
  • Save project and name it

• INTERVIEWS AND ADVICES FORM GRAND PRIZE WINNERS OF POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL
• 2005: Stéphane Galienni
• 2006: Jean-Claude Taki
• 2007: Antonin Verrier

• THE BASICS : PICTURE, SOUND, DIGITAL, TELEPHONE, VIDEO, DATA
• The basic principles of image and sound
  • What is an image ?
  • The principle of photography
  • The invention of cinema
  • The principle of the television
  • The invention of television
  • The weight of history
  • There are horizontal lines very ugly on my video
  • The special films shot with telephone
  • The color
  • And the sound ? What is it ?
  • The microphone, speaker and tape
  • Analog sound
  • The electric microphone
  • Magnetic recording
• Large digital principles
  • What is a digital sound ?
  • What is a digital image ?
  • Digital black and white image
  • Color digital and computer image
  • How does digital photography ?
  • The image resolution
  • The visual reality of pixels
  • Digital compression
  • JPEG digital compression Examples
• The telephone, a fully digital tool
  • The links between phone and computer
  • Digital convergence
• The networks of mobile telephony
  • GSM network (GPRS and Edge)
  • 3G network (UMTS)
  • DVBH
  • Wi-Fi networks
• Digital video
  • The formats of video phone
  • The rates
  • Compression
  • Video Codecs
  • Audio Codecs
  • The container
  • Summary of the characteristics of digital video
  • The MPEG1 or VCD
  • DV
  • The DVD (MPEG2 format)
  • The inter-frame compression
  • The 3GP, specific phone size
• Computer files
  • Files and phone
  • The briefs and organizing files
  • File formats
• Video formats phones
• Softwares
  • The video playback software
  • Video conversion software
  • The video editing software

• GLOSSARY

• INDEX