Posts Tagged ‘iPhone app’
Dream: The Storyboarding App from Plai
Mar 12 by Debra Kaufman | 4 CommentsDream is a new iPhone app from Plai that allows the user to design a poster, write an outline and create storyboards without knowing how to draw. “That way,” says creator Fernando Jimenez,” You can focus on what’s important: being creative.” The app is aimed at “directors, writers, editors, cinematographers, producers, art directors, animators or storyboard artists looking to master their craft,” says Jimenez.
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mSpot Launches Horror Movie App
Jan 18 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsIf you’re a fan of creepy, campy horror movies, you’re in luck. Mobile entertainment provider mSpot has just launched a subscription-based iPhone app devoted to the best of the bunch, making full-length movies available instantly, without downloading, waiting, or syncing to PC. The mSpot Horror Movie App costs $3.99 for unlimited access for one month to the list of 10+ movies, which are refreshed weekly.
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Golden Globes Goes Digital With iPhone App and a Widget
Jan 15 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsThe Golden Globes this year have a sophisticated digital reach, thanks to the efforts of dick clark productions (dcp), the production company of record of the Golden Globes for the HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association). Whereas last year’s event started the afternoon the event, said Ariel Elazar, VP digital distribution and brand licensing, this year’s digital festivities started a full week before the Sunday Jan. 17 broadcast of the Golden Globes. Part of the roll-out includes an Apple iPhone app that will enable viewers to keep up with news, videos and photos.
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Technicolor has an iPhone App for That…
Dec 14 by Debra Kaufman | 5 CommentsTechnicolor Creative Services, one of the world’s largest providers of production and post-production services to the motion picture/broadcast/cable/advertising/home entertainment markets, has come up with an iPhone app useful for editors and others in the post process. Robert C. Rodriguez, supervisor of technical operations at Technicolor Creative Services spoke to MobilizedTV today about Technicolor’s iPhone app, which is a data rate calculator.
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Mobile Content and the Future of Film
Dec 10 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentThe Future of Film Summit in Santa Monica considered mobile content in a panel “Dialing up the Fourth Screen–Next Wave of Mobile Film and Video Entertainment.” There are 4 billion handsets in the world, and 40 to 45 percent of them are video-capable. Is anyone making money? And, if so, how? Read on for what these mobile executives had to say…
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Mobile Highlights at CES 2010
Dec 03 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentIf you’re interested in content on mobile devices, visit CES (Consumer Electronics Show) January 7 to 10, 2010. Mobile content will play a major role in numerous areas on the show floor as well as in the conference portion of the show.
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Dick Clark Productions Goes Mobile at American Music Awards
Nov 20 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentThis Sunday Nov. 22, the 2009 American Music Awards (AMAs) will take place at the NOKIA Theatre L.A. Live. You can watch it that evening from 8 to 11 pm on ABC. And if you’re truly a fan, you can now get on the red carpet thanks to an arrangement between dick clark productions and SayNow.”The SayNow tool is really something that we think is amazing for what we’re trying to do for the pre-show,” says Ariel Elazar, VP digital distribution & brand licensing for dcp. “We want this to be the most interactive red carpet to date.”
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AP Mobile Launches on Windows Mobile Platform
Nov 18 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsThere are an estimated 30+ million Windows Mobile phones out there. That spells reach for AP Mobile, says Jeff Litvack, AP’s general manager of mobile and emerging products. Litvack, who reports that the existing AP mobile app, with more than 2.5 million registered mobile users, is “the top news app and the No. 4 most popular app in Windows Marketplace for Mobile.” Developed by Associated Press, AP Mobile launched in May 2008 (covered in MobilizedTV) as a mobile WAP site.
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mSpot Bets on Mobile Movies
Nov 17 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsIn October, mSpot launched a new VOD movie services, across all carriers and on 30 handsets. According to mSpot CEO Daren Tsui, the company worked with Sprint to launch a long-form entertainment channel, with movies and episodic TV. The S-VOD (subscription video-on-demand) service took off, cementing Tsui’s belief that–despite what many in mobile say–people are happy to watch long-form programming on the mobile phone.MobilizedTV spoke with Tsui about how the business of mobile movies is doing and what mSpot plans for the future (hint: think iPhone).
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Director’s View: Another iPhone App from Chemical Wedding
Nov 11 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentIf you liked Helios, the sun position calculator, you’ll like Artemis, a digital director’s viewfinder available as an iPhone app from the same folks at Chemical Wedding. “Artemis is designed with both cinematographers and directors in mind,” says Chemical Wedding’s Toby Evetts. “It works in much the same way as a traditional directors viewfinder, although it’s much more accurate and much more convenient.” How easy? The user selects a camera format, aspect ratio and lens type, and then Artemis uses the camera in the iPhone to simulate the lens view that you can expect with the configuration you’ve selected.
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Nov 09 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentFirst Things Last video
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AFI DigiFest Showcases Digital Media, Mobile Innovation
Nov 02 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsThe AFI Digital Content Lab has been an R&D incubator for innovative digital media and entertainment for 11 years. Volunteer mentors have worked with a wide range of innovators in 3 to 6-month periods of hands-on development, generating more than 90 digital media proof-of-concept prototypes.Every year, these projects are presented to the public at AFI DigiFest, a two-day event held in conjunction with AFI FEST. This year’s AFI DigiFest takes place Nov. 4 and 5th in Hollywood.
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National Film Board of Canada Launches iPhone App
Oct 27 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentThe National Film Board of Canada released an iPhone app that provides a free, full viewing of 1,375 films in English and French. The hundreds of documentaries, animated films and trailers are streamed over WiFi, 3G and EDGE wireless networks. “We continue to add new films every week, depending on how many we clear the rights for and can digitize,” says Deborah Drisdell, NFB director general of accessibility and digital enterprises.
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iPhone App for Final Cut Pro Editors
Oct 14 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsWeynand Training, a Gold Level Apple Authorized Training Center based in Los Angeles, announces the launch of iKeysToGo, their new series of applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, for learning and using Final Cut Pro 7. The company is promoting iKeysToGo as “a personal shortcut assistant in the palm of your hand.”
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iPhone App: Magnify Mobile Enables Free Video Upload and Sharing
Sep 23 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsToday, Magnify.net released Magnify Mobile, an iPhone app designed to make video uploading and sharing fast, easy and free. The iPhone app enables iPhone 3GS users to shoot, upload, store, and share personal videos on a Magnify-hosted channel for free. Users can instantly submit videos to channels that they create on Magnify.net and create playlists, make comments, reviews, and integrate design templates, content controls, site reporting, and monetization tools.
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iPhone App for DVD Bit Budgeting
Sep 09 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsEditGroove Software just announced the release of its DVD Bit Budget Assistant, a professional, fully-featured video “bit budgeting” utility for the iPhone. According to EditGroove founder Ron Diamond, a Los Angeles-based veteran video editor, DVD Bit Budget Assistant is designed with professional and educational users in mind.
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Mobile Video Views Soar on MSNBC.com
Aug 03 by Debra Kaufman | 3 CommentsSince introducing video into MSNBC.com’s mobile web product in March, monthly video views have increased 207 percent, tripling the number of video views in just over four months. The report of this increase comes from a mobile consumer research survey conducted by InsightExpress. MSNBC.com’s mobile product is powered by Transpera, a mobile video delivery and ad network.
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Helios: iPhone App for Filmmakers
Jun 15 by Debra Kaufman | 7 CommentsHelios, the first iPhone/iTouch app from the trio, who form Chemical Wedding, graphically predicts the path of the sun from dusk to dawn, on any given day, in any given place. That’s not only useful to cinematographers and still photographers but also to grips, gaffers, production designers, 1st assistant directors–as well as architects, artists, landscape designers, surveyors and anyone else who needs to know exactly where the sun will be at specific times.
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Entrepreneur Lists Top Ten Mobile Companies
Jun 01 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentEntrepreneur magazine recently listed its Top 100 companies to watch, under a range of categories. One of those categories was mobile, and the magazine’s cognoscenti listed the following companies: lastic Logic whose founders have created a possible Kindle-killer. Their research focused on flexible plastic substrates to produce durable thin high-contrast displays. The result, scheduled to launch in 2010, will feature a touchscreen, a durable plastic window, and high-contrast reflective display technology as well as a legal-pad sized Reader.
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New Yorker Cover Painted with iPhone App
May 26 by Debra Kaufman | 3 CommentsGizmodo reported today that artist Jorge Colombo used the iPod app Brushes to fingerpaint the June 1 cover of the New Yorker magazine. Watch the video below on the artist’s process using the app. The apparent contradiction between the New Yorker’s gravitas and Apple’s youth culture duly noted. However, as one commenter noted, graphic artist/animator Francoise Mouly (spouse and collaborator of Art Spiegelmann) is in charge of covers, which may explain the adventurous decision.
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