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Convergence Igniting mobile TV the Indian way
P.R. Harikumar’s 10-minute film for mobile phones, ‘A boy in his time’ was shown at the Third Pocket Film Festival in Paris in June this year.
If TV can go the bonsai way and shrink to wallet size, how will this affect those who make movies? Simple! Look to Japan for inspiration again and transform film making to a ‘haiku’: the terse traditional Japanese verse form of three lines, of five, seven and five syllables. This is the audacious suggestion of veteran Kerala-based cinematographer K. Ramachandra Babu. He mooted a story-film format that should be told in just three shots; no shot to last more than 40 seconds; the maximum length of the film to be one minute and no optical or computer graphic effects to be used. He called this economical film format Cineku and created half a dozen short films in this format to show how it is possible to tell a story in this succinct style. The films were shown at the last International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) and more recently at the Bangalore International Film Festival… to wide interest from budding film makers. “Any young film maker with a handycam can make a cineku – and upload it to the Internet for others to view”, Babu says. Indeed, he feels this is the way film makers have to go if they are to exploit the opportunities that will emerge when small form factor TV on mobiles becomes more ubiquitous. Another Kerala-based film maker, P.R. Harikumar, is a professor of Malayalam based in Kalady: He had ‘shrunk’ the Tamil classic, ‘Thirukural’, as well as ‘Adyatma Ramayanam’ in Malayalam, so that they could be read on a mobile phone. He then went on to create his own ‘mobile novella’ ‘Neelakannukal’ and most recently created a 10-minute feature, ‘A Boy in his time’, shot with a Nokia 3230 camera phone. It was shown in June at the Third Pocket Film Festival in Paris, one of 14 such films selected after a worldwide hunt. The Mumbai-based entertainment company Hungama Mobile joined hands with cellular provider Roamware to create a series of 7-10 minute Hindi feature films tailored for viewing on mobile phones under the title "’Dus Kahaniyan’ ( Ten stories), which were shown for the first time at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this year. Mini movies on mobile may be the next wave of opportunity — something that the nation with the world’s largest film industry is well positioned to ride. May be that is why Ronnie Screwvala, CEO of UTV, a leading Indian multimedia content provider, has been invited to be one of the key speakers at ‘MoCollywood’, a festival of mobile content being held in London during October 2-3 this year. Doubling as projector
The biggest drawback of Mobile TV — the small size of the viewing screen — may disappear, if a solution just unveiled by Texas Instruments, reaches developers. The US-based semiconductor leader has demonstrated a chip that converts a mobile phone into a projector. Used with three tiny lasers and the company’s Digital Light Processor (DLP) technology, the chip will allow phone owners who upload TV or video content to project the image on a nearby wall rather than peering at the image on their phone screens. The total projector solution has been squeezed into a form factor that is about 4 cm long — compact enough to be integrated into tomorrow’s mobile phones.
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