Shoot-n-Share

More than ever people now have the opportunity and the means, thanks to new media, to imagine and share their world. With the camera of a mobile telephone everyday reality can be simply recorded and shared with others. Shoot-n-Share is an audiovisual masterthesis about the everyday production, interpretation and imagination of mobile images. The audiovisual masterthesis consists of a short documentary and a written thesis to provide theoretical background to the visual document. By means of the eyes and cameras of the various protagonists, from the elderly Mr. Been to the 16-year-old duo Thom and Osama, the written thesis and documentary provide insight into mobile photography and filming; different motivations for the everyday use of the medium and the personal value attributed to the medium are being considered. The material that the protagonists made themselves with the mobile fulfils, alongside observations, interviews and a lot of mobile material from YouTube, a prominent role in the documentary. Shoot-n-Share aims to be a platform for the makers and their mobile images and at the same time offers context to the stream of images that are circulating on the web. It is watching ways of perceiving, speaking in a language that is presently developing at lightening speed. Different motivations for the everyday use of the cameraphone in personal and social context are explored in this audiovisual masterthesis: the use of the cameraphone for preserving valuable moments and reliving them, the use of the cameraphone to archive the mundain (the everyday) for personal reflection and the use of the cameraphone for selfreflection and selfrepresentation. Also, this study presents a first glance on the use of the cameraphone for the exploration of the unknown: the experience and appropriation of the public space mediated through the cameraphone is being reviewed here.