Ramblings of a post-industrial media maker

Research Background: Ramblings of a Post-industrial Media Maker is an experimental video work that explores the growing practice and scholarship of mobile filmmaking. The affordances of mobile phone devices, tools and the Web are altering the way fiction and non-fiction is portrayed to viewers, as demonstrated through the aesthetics of works in international screenings. Research Contribution: This video work is an assemblage of a number of handheld, short vignettes that capture the everyday perspective of a pedestrian walking through city streets. The shots are recorded on a mobile phone and processed on that device using a mobile application. Edited in the phone as single shots and combined with text in post-production the work aims to draw on the affordances of the device and available tools. The work contributes to discourse on mobile aesthetics and practices, as part of the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa Conferences and Screenings (Wellington, Auckland, Melbourne). Research Significance: Ramblings of a Post-industrial Media Maker investigates how new media technologies and platforms are altering film and video practices. The aesthetics of mobile filmmaking are used to critique the changing role of the media producer and question the differences between professional and non-professional practice. This linear non-narrative extends my current research into transformations occurring in both documentary form and practice. It provides as evidenced in the curated selection of MINA works, an original perspective on the aesthetics emerging in mobile filmmaking.