iMUPPET: Episode 1
Just a little something different: I bought an iPhone last weekend because they're shiny, so here's a cheeky wee look at some lovely, relevant stuff you can download onto yours! The following apps and podcasts may well work on other devices, but I can't guarantee this to be the case. If any of the following take your fancy, then simply search for them in the iTunes store and they'll pop up, all nice and shiny. So, here goes...
FilmLive.TV: Filmmaking WebTV Network
Hooray! Free video podcasts from one of Scotland's best film networking websites, FilmLive. FilmLive is a filmmakers' network and web TV channel aiming to bring together creatives, and provide an insight into the wonderful world of filmmaking. Podcasts are of great quality and make for very interesting viewing. Plus they're free!
Hitchcock Storyboard Composer
This is an amazing iPhone app (with a cost of £11.99), which words as a fully-featured storyboarding and pre-vis tool for directors. Take on-location photos of backdrops with your iPhone and add traditional storyboarding mark-ups such as dolly, zoom and pan. You can even add stand-ins if you are without an actor in the pre-production phase, and can export your finished storyboards as a .PDF document for distribution. Incidentally, the app has received glowing user reviews.
ScriptWrite
Streamlined yet fully functioning script writing software for your iPhone, should you fancy writing a quick scene whilst you're on the train. Some scoff at the idea, whilst others lap it up, but for £2.99 and a free update on the horizon to fix some small niggles, you can't really complain. Your work can be imported into desktop script writing software such as Final Draft and Celtx.
iFilmmaker Pro
This is a bit like a filmmaker's version of Trivial Pursuit where you answer a bunch of questions split into five main categories: editing, script writing, directing, acting and cinematography. It's a bit daft but it's a fun way to waste a few minutes of your meaningless life, and you're pretty much garaunteed to learn at least something! Compare scores with your friends. Shun filmmakers who get low scores and sneer in their general direction. Endless fun, I'm sure...
Media Muppet App
Okay so it's not a REAL app, but you can add MM to your iPhone's home menu and it gets a cool little iPhone icon like the one above. It's a condensed version of the full site which gives you a full summary of all recent site activity, view to the forums, your profile pages, and the profile pages of all members. MM Mobile is streamlined for mobile browsing, and loads like a bullet.
Simply add MM to your home screen whilst browsing on Safari. If you've found this mini feature on iPhone stuff to be even remotely amusing/interesting then let me know and I might work on similar stuff in the future. Post a comment etc.
- Billy
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Comment by Lewis on December 27, 2009 at 11:08am - iphones are crap. This review sucks.
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Comment by Kit R Mackenzie on February 23, 2010 at 3:21pm -
Getting iFilmaker Pro me thinks!
Storyboard composer sounds inviting but expensive - wonder if they do a lite version (though that won't be good) for free...
Cheers for article
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I've reinstated this to the main navigation bar. Not sure why it wasn't there to begin with (took ages to find).
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I definitely think Billy is working for Apple lol. I agree that the price for Celtx is silly. I think most of these apps holds novelty value and nothing more. But you should invest in an iPhone. They're shiny. :P
Driving people places. Making tea. Coiling cables. Sending rejection emails to failed auditionees. Mopping floors. Logging shots. God forbid, once they actually had me operate a camera.
As I am but a weak and feeble woman (with a strong backgroun…
Driving people places. Making tea. Coiling cables. Sending rejection emails to failed auditionees. Mopping floors. Logging shots. God forbid, once they actually had me operate a camera.
As I am but a weak and feeble woman (with a strong backgroun…
This seems like one of your periodic outbursts to me...! :P Yes, the two big networks are now far bigger than Media Muppet, but you always knew that was going to be the case as soon as those websites appeared. Central Station has over 60, 000 member…
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It is a good website,that is a lot of money to run a website,but I can see there is alot of content on here,I can imagine it being time consuming especially with one person doing it all
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Creative Scotland and central station doesn't appeal to me, it's all art house driven media and films and I can't relate to i.
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Well Billy, now you're scaring me a little! I am sure the other sites are splendid BUT to me MM has a niche too. Someone I know in the DIY scene has just killed off his band - a bunch of guys that created some really great music - have just STOPPED.…
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