I’m in Cannes for Nokia, with Ernie and Robbie from WOMWorld, mobile videoblogging the Young Lions Competition at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival – young creatives from all over the world have 48 hours to make an advert using an N86 phone, to a brief set by the World Society for the Protection of Animals for their Compassionate Travel campaign.

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A film that appears to have been made by a 15 year old boy, with his daddy’s VHS camera.

On Friday afternoon, I got a call to tell me I’d won 50 EXTRAS

to remake a movie scene
with my PHONE
on monday morning

I had 15 MINUTES to decide what movie to do and where to do it.

It’s for the NokiaMinimo.com mobile filmmaking competition which ends this week. Please click here to vote for me on their site, and watch the movies that other people have been remaking. (Voting is easy and doesn’t require registration.)

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I can’t embed this video, so here’s a link to it:

http://nokiaminimo.com/watch?movieID=3941

It’s a shorter 90 recut of Videoblogging The Conversation, for the Nokia MiniMO competition.

They want 90 second mobile videos, inspired by your favourite movie scenes. Shot on phones or point & shoot cameras. The standard of entries so far is pretty so-so – a lot of you vloggers could clean up here… The prizes include a trip to the Cannes Lions Advertising festival at the end of the month and a bunch of video kit and phones.

and I’d love your votes!

I’m going to shoot another one this weekend, I think, based on the opening scene of Narc, perhaps. More to follow.

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PS
I only found out about this competition by accident. Apparently, Nokia and MO Film have been touring universities this year, teaching mobile filmmaking to students.
I’m regularly amazed by how little joined-up thinking seems to happen with these initiatives. There are so many people around – like me – who are passionate about creative videoblogging and mobile filmmaking, and keep getting involved with trying to get people doing more of it. And then every time there’s a new competition or promotional event to get people doing it, they put a bunch of money behind promoting it, as if it’s never been done before – but never contact us. Frustrating.
All it would take is a simple email list. Maybe what we need, as has been mentioned before, is to start to organize ourselves?

This video was broadcast live from my cellphone at Speakers Corner today via Qik.com/twittervlog

Shot on my Nokia N93 phone

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Shot on my Nokia N93

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So from now on if you’re subscribed to this feed by email or RSS, you’ll be seeing little 12 second videos popping up every day.

I shoot them and post them from my phone, and always try to do something interesting with them. They’re the kind of thing I was doing when I started Twittervlog – posting little moments of life direct from my phone to the web. So they belong here, really.

ruperthowe on 12seconds.tv

… and thanks to Dave Goodchild (@buddhamagnet) for merging the feeds for me

I was at the Coach and Horses pub in Soho last night for Scuttle (after-work social media meetup). Tom Hall from Nokia Womworld, who sent me to Helsinki & Bucharest a couple of months ago, told me was going to turn up with some friends to make a ‘personal delivery’.

Please excuse the advertising. It’s just that I don’t get serenaded in a crowded pub very often.

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in case you haven’t seen, or if you only get these videos via email or RSS, the last few days’ videos have been posted on 12seconds.tv rather than as individual posts on Twittervlog.

you can see them in the little player at the top right of the Twittervlog site, or by clicking here to see them on my channel at 12seconds.tv

no doubt more vlomo videos will be posted on 12seconds this month – it’s a manageable way to meet the challenge of posting every day, although I don’t just post any old clips there. Even a 12 second moment can tell some kind of story – and I try to get two or three different elements in each one.

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The slowest series ever. In November 2007, I posted Part 1, arriving in San Francisco; in November 2008, I posted Videoblogging The Conversation; this year it’s Vertigo. And they were all shot in November 2006. Holy shitsticks, I’ve aged more in the last three years than this movie location has in the last 50!

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Formats available: iPhone Podcast File (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

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I used this music on Vlomo Day 3 last year, too – but tongue in cheek, at the start of The Placenta Video.
I know it’s schmaltzy, but sometimes you find a piece of music which fits a video so perfectly that you just can’t not use it, even though your cheese alarm is waking people up three streets away.

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