first film made about festivals and shot entirely on mobile phones

Shoot The Summer is the first ever feature length music film about festivals shot entirely on mobile phones. Throughout the summer Radio 1 producer Hugh Garry filmed at seven festivals and gave out phones to audience members and bands with just one simple instruction... "film whatever you want".

Bands such as The Wombats, and Black Kids were given video mobiles to use at festivals they attended over the summer, and music fans at festivals also filmed their experiences. The result is an hour-long film called 'Shoot The Summer' which was premiered at the Electric Proms last night and is now available online.

Radio 1 producer Hugh Garry who went around the events handing out the mobiles to festival goers, all of which were returned, said, "Giving the audience and artists the brief to 'film whatever you want' was risky but I think it paid off. At the start we were concerned that we'd get nothing but clips of bored bands on tour buses and wasted kids in tents, but Shoot the Summer is anything but."

Shoot The Summer is thought to be the UK's first ever feature length music film made using mobiles. BBC interactive producer, Jo Bellingham, said, "Using the mobile phone as a video camera allows us to approach things differently and capture intimate and unplanned moments the BBC would rarely get to film using traditional production techniques."

To view the film online, click here.

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