SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking

Episode 211: This episode was recorded January 29, 2025 and published February 4, 2025.

This is our first episode of the new year 2025! Erica “ET” Taylor is our featured guest in this episode of the Fade In To Film series. I’m stoked to have ET back again for this episode.

ET is teaching film appreciation and other filmmaking topics at a new university. We discuss ET’s work teaching film at the university where she is, in Texas.

She’s bringing guest speakers to her classes, like protagonist Shellsy Malveaux from her short film, “Coming Home” shot with her iPhone 13 Pro Max. ET’s also reaching out to smartphone filmmakers she met during IMFF 2023, to her classes to inspire her students to make films.

We discuss multimedia and ways you can bring one of your older films shot with older smartphone models back to life in 2025. We discuss topics like how filmmakers can publish printed books that play your videos—yes, you can do it now.

I appreciate you and the mobile filmmaking community for listening and sharing the podcast. Thank you!

Fade In To Film is a series by the SBP Podcast, where we discuss topics and events of interest to indie and mobile filmmakers. http://fadeintofilm.com

Joey Min has been extremely busy and we congratulate his success in the industry! He’ll be a featured guest occasionally, along with past and new guests to Fade In To Film.

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

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Thankful to our fiscal sponsor Angaelica: https://internationalmobilefilmfestival.com/support/

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Episode 210: This episode was recorded December 21, 2024 and published December 31, 2024. New Year's Eve.

Part Two of a two part series with our guest, Miguel Lopez de Leon. In part one we share who Miguel is, his passion for storytelling and his newfound challenge in mobile filmmaking.

Join Miguel and myself now in part two as we discuss AI: Generating and automating as an artist, the film “28 Years Later” shot with iPhone cameras, mobile film gear in the earliest days, social media and video progress; and among other things, our mobile filmmaking community with the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego.

Miguel was one of the attending filmmakers at this year’s 13th International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego last April. His short mobile film “Ghost Leave” had the audience laughing and loving it! He’s planning to attend the 2025 edition April 25-27. 

Thank you for listening to the podcast. I wish every one of you the very best in 2025.

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

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Episode 209: This episode was recorded December 21, 2024 and published December 24, 2024.

Part One of a two part series with our guest, Miguel Lopez de Leon. Miguel was one of the attending filmmakers at this year’s 13th International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego last April. His short mobile film “Ghost Leave” had the audience laughing and loving it!

Miguel has submitted again for the 2025 edition next April. We are blown away at how he is making films faster than we can watch them!

Join me in a conversation with Miguel about the storytelling skills he’s using as a novelist, and as a mobile filmmaker.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. I wish every one of you the very best during the holidays.

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

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Episode 208: This episode was recorded December 14, 2024 and published December 17, 2024.

First of all, we wish all of you the best during this holiday season. 

In this episode of our Fade In To Film series, Joey Min and I team up to share some good tips and a few things we learned about what to do, and what not to do, on set of an independent film; and we’ll adapt some traditional on-set etiquette to smartphone filmmaking.

We also tackle the role of the gaffer on set, versus the grip; and if you will ever need one on set for a mobile film. We begin with drones in New Jersey because that’s where Joey is, and it’s interesting.

Learn more about Fade In To Film on the SBP Podcast: http://fadeintofilm.com 

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

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Episode 207: This episode was recorded November 27, 2024 and published December 3, 2024.

Joey Min and Susy Botello have a fun discussion the eve before Thanksgiving and we run some cool gift ideas for mobile filmmakers. Of course, that opens up our conversation to discuss filmmaking insights. 

Susy brings up how the industry is trying to catch up with the classification of cameras and smartphones regarding prosumer, consumer and professional cameras; and the distinctions between them.

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Learn more about Fade In To Film on the SBP Podcast: http://fadeintofilm.com 

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

Enjoying our free podcast? You can support us! 

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SUBMIT YOUR FILMS TO IMFF’S 14TH EDITION: http://internationalmobilefilmfestival.com 

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Episode 206: This episode was recorded November 13, 2024 and published November 19, 2024.

Joey Min and Susy Botello share a lot about the stories within our attraction for filmmaking. Joey brings us deep with gratitude and feeling thankful as an indie filmmaker.

Why should someone like you make movies?

Joey and Susy share why indie filmmakers make films and why the hard work is not only worth it, but something to be proud of.

We talk about experimental films, a natural and unique style and genre in mobile filmmaking. We discuss a lot about making movies and how ideas and stories form.  

Learn more about Fade In To Film on the SBP Podcast: http://fadeintofilm.com 

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

Enjoying our free podcast? You can support us! 

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SUBMIT YOUR FILMS TO IMFF’S 14TH EDITION: http://internationalmobilefilmfestival.com 

Joey’s YouTube Art School Dropouts: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtSchoolDropouts 

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Episode 205: This episode was recorded October 30, 2024 and published November 5, 2024.

Our topic for this episode is an introspect on the indie filmmaker’s dream. 

Joey Min and Susy Botello discuss three phases: The production process and distribution; funding; and if the outcome predetermines the potential for the next film.

Learn more about Fade In To Film on the SBP Podcast: http://fadeintofilm.com 

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

Enjoying our free podcast? You can support us! 

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Subscribe to listen in your own app: https://www.podbean.com/site/podcatcher/index/blog/kOpp1Xtzvu6l 

SUBMIT YOUR FILMS TO IMFF’S 14TH EDITION: http://internationalmobilefilmfestival.com 

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Episode 204: This episode was recorded October 27, 2024 and published October 27, 2024.

Surprise! This episode is off schedule to celebrate you and wish you a Happy Anniversary! It’s our seventh year with the SBP Podcast and I share why you’re such a big part of it. I can’t thank our listeners and guests enough for being a part of our show for seven years. 

It’s a very short episode for us, this is probably the shortest on record, except the first test episode of the show. 

Thank you so very much for being a part of the show, sharing and subscribing!

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

Enjoying our free podcast? You can support us! 

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SUBMIT YOUR FILMS TO IMFF’S 14TH EDITION: http://internationalmobilefilmfestival.com 

Susy:

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Episode 203: This episode was recorded October 21, 2024 and published October 22, 2024.

Join Levi Austin Morris and I as we comb through the technicalities of what it takes to get your feature film shot with iPhones distributed with streaming services. 

Levi shares some of the details of his journey getting “Paralysis” into some major OTT streaming services.

We discuss log format, audio, frame rates, contracts, licensing, and a lot more! Want to take your feature smartphone film to the mainstream level of distribution? We’ll guide you through it.

Paralysis will be available to rent or buy beginning November 5th.

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

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Episode 202: This episode was recorded October 13, 2024 and published October 15, 2024.

The time you have to get the attention of someone who watches your video depends on a lot of things.

In this episode, I’m going to share a trick I learned in video production and a tool I use from my journalism writing class, which I use for all my videos and other media projects. I share a bunch of insights with you!

I use the Five W’S: Who, What, When, Where and Why to decide if I only have 4 seconds or a bit longer at the start of the video to capture the viewer's attention before they move on. 

This episode topic was inspired by a follower I follow on social media. Link below!

SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. 

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Producer, writer, director, editor, composer, graphics and host: Susy Botello. This podcast does not use AI voices or generative AI.

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