bodyType

customContents

entityId

printArticlePageQuery

filter

article

body

urlAlias

articleSectionsContent

articleSeoArticle

articleSourceHeaderArticle

contentSchemaRenderContent

contentSubHeadlineContent

contentHeadlineContent

mainImagePrintArticleArticle

authorBlockPrintArticleArticle

contentSponsorTagContent

articlePianoPaywallContent

scmpYoutubeContent

hooksTrackPageViewArticle

query printArticlePageQuery(
  $entityId: String!
  $customContents: [CustomContentInput]
  $bodyType: BodyFormatTypeEnum
) {
  article(filter: {entityId: $entityId}) {
    entityId
    body(customContents: $customContents, type: $bodyType) {
      json
    }
    urlAlias
    ...articleSectionsContent
    ...articleSeoArticle_3o8td4
    ...articleSourceHeaderArticle
    ...contentSchemaRenderContent
    ...contentSubHeadlineContent
    ...contentHeadlineContent
    ...mainImagePrintArticleArticle
    ...authorBlockPrintArticleArticle
    ...contentSponsorTagContent
    ...articlePianoPaywallContent
    ...scmpYoutubeContent
    ...hooksTrackPageViewArticle
    id
  }
}

fragment articlePianoPaywallContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...hooksPaywallPromiseContent
}

fragment articleSectionsContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  sections {
    value {
      ...helpersCheckIfNewsSectionInFirstIndexSection
      ...entityLink
      name
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment articleSeoArticle_3o8td4 on Article {
  ...hooksArticleSeoArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
  ...helpersGetArticleTypeArticle
  entityId
  publishedDate
  updatedDate
  summary {
    text
  }
  subHeadline {
    text
  }
  body(customContents: $customContents, type: $bodyType) {
    text
  }
  keywords
  sections {
    value {
      name
      id
    }
  }
  topics {
    name
    entityId
    id
  }
  urlAlias
  authors {
    name
    id
  }
  images {
    style(filter: {style: "768x768"}) {
      url
    }
  }
  readingTime
}

fragment articleSourceHeaderArticle on Article {
  urlAlias
  ...entityLink
}

fragment authorBlockPrintArticleArticle on Article {
  ...defaultArticleDateContent
  ...authorNamesArticle
}

fragment authorNameAuthor on Author {
  ...entityLink
  name
  entityUuid
}

fragment authorNamesArticle on Article {
  authorLocations
  authors {
    entityId
    location
    ...authorNameAuthor
    id
  }
}

fragment blockquoteQuoteContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...contentShareWidgetContent
}

fragment checkersCheckContentContainsStarlingImageContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment contentHeadlineContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  headline
  socialHeadline
  ...contentHeadlineTagContent
  ...helpersUseContentSponsorContent
}

fragment contentHeadlineTagContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...hooksContentHeadlineTagContent
}

fragment contentNewsletterWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    relatedNewsletters {
      ...helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter
      id
    }
    id
  }
  sections {
    value {
      relatedNewsletters {
        ...helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter
        id
      }
      id
    }
  }
  ... on Article {
    relatedNewsletters {
      ...helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment contentSchemaRenderContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...blockquoteQuoteContent
  ...imageContent
  ...inlineWidgetContent
  ...photoGalleryWidgetContent
  ...scmpYoutubeContent
}

fragment contentShareWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  entityId
  urlAlias
  shortUrl
  socialHeadline
  headline
}

fragment contentSponsorTagContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...helpersUseContentSponsorContent
}

fragment contentSubHeadlineContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  subHeadline {
    json
  }
  summary {
    json
  }
  ...contentSchemaRenderContent
}

fragment defaultArticleDateContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...hooksArticleDateUtilsContent
}

fragment entityLink on BaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias {
  __isBaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias: __typename
  __typename
  entityId
  entityUuid
  urlAlias
  urlRedirect {
    toUrl
    id
  }
  application {
    entityId
    id
  }
  ... on Section {
    fullSectionPath {
      entityId
      id
    }
    parentSection
  }
  ...helpersAppBarVariantBase
  ...helpersApplicationBase
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusArticle
  ...helpersStyleSectionContent
}

fragment helpersAppBarVariantBase on BaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias {
  __isBaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias: __typename
  ...helpersCheckIsLiveArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusPage
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesPage
  ...helpersCheckIsPostMagazineArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsStyleArticle
  ...helpersSectionContent
  ...helpersStyleSectionContent
}

fragment helpersApplicationBase on BaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias {
  __isBaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias: __typename
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesPage
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusPage
}

fragment helpersCheckIfNewsSectionInFirstIndexSection on Section {
  name
}

fragment helpersCheckIsAmpEnabledArticle on Article {
  entityId
  types {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
  sections {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
  disableOffPlatformContent
  sponsorType
  published
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
}

fragment helpersCheckIsLiveArticle on Article {
  flattenTypeIds
  liveArticle {
    status
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsMainTopicContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPlusArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ... on Article {
    paywallTypes {
      entityUuid
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPlusPage on Page {
  urlAlias
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPostMagazineArticle on Article {
  sections {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle on Article {
  sections {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPostiesPage on Page {
  urlAlias
}

fragment helpersCheckIsStyleArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  sections {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersGetArticleTypeArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ... on Article {
    types {
      value {
        entityId
        id
      }
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter on Newsletter {
  entityId
  name
  alternativeName
  description {
    text
  }
  summary {
    text
  }
  homepageDescription {
    text
  }
}

fragment helpersSanitizeArticleTypeEntityIdsArticle on Article {
  types {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersSanitizeAuthorTypesArticle on Article {
  authors {
    types
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersSanitizedAuthorEntityIdsArticle on Article {
  authors {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersSectionContent on Section {
  fullSectionPath {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersStyleSectionContent on Section {
  fullSectionPath {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersUseContentSponsorContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    sponsor {
      ...sponsorTagSponsor
      name
      type
      id
    }
    id
  }
  ... on Article {
    sponsorType
  }
  ...helpersCheckIsMainTopicContent
}

fragment hooksArticleDateUtilsContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  createdDate
  publishedDate
  updatedDate
}

fragment hooksArticleSeoArticle on Article {
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostMagazineArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsStyleArticle
  ...hooksContentHeadlineTagContent
  ...helpersCheckIsAmpEnabledArticle
  entityId
  headline
  socialHeadline
  types {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
  authors {
    entityId
    id
  }
  images {
    generic_og: style(filter: {style: "og_image_scmp_generic"}) {
      url
    }
    styles(filter: {styles: ["og_image_posties_article", "og_postmag", "og_image_style", "og_image_scmp_analysis", "og_image_scmp_explainer", "og_image_scmp_editorial", "og_image_scmp_fact_check", "og_image_scmp_debate", "og_image_scmp_live", "og_image_scmp_obituary", "og_image_scmp_opinion", "og_image_scmp_review", "og_image_scmp_series", "og_image_scmp_generic"]}) {
      url
      style
    }
    type
  }
  urlAlias
}

fragment hooksContentHeadlineTagContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  __typename
  ... on Article {
    types {
      value {
        name
        entityId
        description {
          text
        }
        id
      }
    }
    ...helpersCheckIsStyleArticle
  }
  flag
  sections {
    value {
      name
      id
    }
  }
  ...hooksContentHelperContent
}

fragment hooksContentHelperContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...helpersSanitizeArticleTypeEntityIdsArticle
  ...helpersSanitizeAuthorTypesArticle
  ...helpersSanitizedAuthorEntityIdsArticle
  flag
}

fragment hooksPaywallPromiseContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  entityId
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
}

fragment hooksTrackPageViewArticle on Article {
  entityId
  publishedDate
  headline
  sections {
    value {
      name
      id
    }
  }
  urlAlias
  authors {
    name
    id
  }
  entityUuid
}

fragment imageContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  headline
  ...checkersCheckContentContainsStarlingImageContent
}

fragment inlineWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...contentNewsletterWidgetContent
}

fragment mainImagePrintArticleArticle on Article {
  images {
    title
    url
    isSlideshow
    size_652x446: style(filter: {style: "652x446"}) {
      url
    }
  }
}

fragment photoGalleryDialogContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  __typename
  ...contentShareWidgetContent
}

fragment photoGalleryWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...photoGalleryDialogContent
}

fragment scmpYoutubeContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  entityId
  urlAlias
  publishedDate
}

fragment sponsorTagSponsor on Sponsor {
  name
  type
  images {
    url
  }
}


sections

types

disableOffPlatformContent

sponsorType

published

headline

socialHeadline

authors

images

publishedDate

updatedDate

summary

subHeadline

keywords

topics

readingTime

authorLocations

entityUuid

David McNeill

Watching Free Run, a blurry, vertiginous MTV-style short by London-based photographer Henry Reichhold,  is getting the digital equivalent of a sugar rush. Just 76 seconds long, the stylised film shows a young runner vaulting over commuters, shoppers and tall buildings in London, set to a Vangelis-like score.
Free Run was shot on a camera-equipped mobile phone, as were about 150 other works screened recently at Japan's first Pocket Films Festival in Yokohama. Its brevity can't compare with the shortest film, which clocked a giddy 12 seconds, but visitors with time and patience could watch full-length features filmed with the gadgets.  France, possibly the world leader in the new field of pocket movies, supplied several productions that stretched to a full 90 minutes.
The idea of shooting, editing and even screening movies on mobile phones may seem odd, but its proponents take it very seriously, citing its potential for free, intimate creativity. Reichhold praises the 'rawness and vitality' of the medium and calls the cellphone software now  available 'revolutionary'.
'This has enabled people to control every aspect of the creative process, from editing to adding a soundtrack and text - and in many cases all this can  be done just using the phone,' he says.
That rough edge and a fair share of indulgence were on display at the festival, which showcased 48 clips selected from 400 submissions from Japan. Some were produced literally on the run by people clutching phones as they whizzed through traffic or - as in the nine-minute Walkers - sped around Japan on a bullet train; others were made by amateurs who should probably get out of their bedrooms more.
But the best, such as Passerby, a witty experimental collage by Michiko Tsuda, overcome their grainy technical limits with a   quirky inventiveness. The split-screen entry shows a couple filming themselves entering a washroom then meeting in the corridor and exchanging  mobile phones.
'The quality isn't great but the phones are really portable and you can shoot something immediately so it feels very fresh,' says Tsuda, a 27-year-old digital design student. 'And because shooting is so fast,  lots of other ideas come out in the creative process.'
Daisuke Kobayashi, a 25-year-old video production assistant, won the top jury prize and 500,000 yen (HK$35,700) for his first effort in the genre - 720/24, a three-minute compendium of ordinary scenes shot at angles reflecting the time of day around Tokyo during a 24-hour period.
'I divided up the day into angles for shooting,' he says, explaining his approach. 'At noon I stood the phone up straight and filmed, then shot from different angles depending on where the sun was.'
Buoyed by his successful effort, Kobayashi plans to invest some of his prize money in similar projects.
'For movies with a scenario and a main character, video is probably better but the distinctive feature of using a cellphone is that it very direct and you can film events as they are happening,' he says.
'Most of my friends have never thought of using a mobile phone in this way but I think the festival will help change that.'
Given the expanding technological capabilities of the once humble handset and its ubiquity in Japan (the number of subscribers recently passed 100 million) it was only a matter of time before their owners began making movies, say the Yokohama festival organisers.
Mobile phones are already widely used in Japan to surf the internet, shop, read novels and shoot short clips of family events. Newer models include so-called 1-Seg technology, which allows users to watch crystal-clear digital TV broadcasts.
But a judge at the festival, Masaki Fujihata,  concedes that despite its potential, the medium is still in its infancy in Japan.
'The idea of a pocket festival began in France three years ago, so we're behind,' says Fujihata, who teaches film  at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.  'There are a lot more phones here but I think many Japanese have a harder time thinking of them as creative tools.'
He suggests a  greater appreciation  of film as an art form accounts for the faster development of mobile-phone movies in France, which coined the term vlog - a contraction of blog and video.
Even so, its promise in Japan, which claims to post 38 per cent of the world's blog pages, is enormous, says Fujihata. 'Next year we're confident there will be a lot more movies, so my job will be harder.'
So far, the audience for these movies seems divided into two categories: tech enthusiasts and artists who perceive a nascent creative revolution, and ordinary punters who can't get past the grainy quality and sometimes abstract themes.
The quality problems are most obvious when the pocket movies are shown on a full-sized screen,  like one basketball game enthusiastically if inexpertly filmed by Tokyo primary school students. 'I have to admit was a bit bored,' says office worker Keigo Arakawa, who claims to have attended most screenings at the festival. 'I can understand making the movies, because that's fun, but not watching them.'
But others, such as Hiroko Sakuta, a 28-year-old digital design student at Tama University,  are inspired. 'The attraction is that because they're so short and small the directors have to really focus on winning our attention. They wouldn't look good up on a big screen but because they're small, you don't mind the lack of quality.' Fans point out that portability of the mobile phone has already made it one of the most important and democratic technologies of the new century. It has been used to record some of the decade's most momentous events, including the recent assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the gruesome execution of Saddam Hussein last year.
More experienced users such as Reichhold  say the spread of new software and editing techniques, and faster shooting and transmission speeds will revolutionise what has largely  been an amateur's medium.  'One can presume that the next generation of video-enabled phones will compete with camcorders,'  he says.
Easy dissemination on the Net adds to the medium's appeal. 'The potentially huge audience it can draw has taken filming out of the living room and into a host of new sharing platforms,' says Reichhold. 'From the diary-type sites such as Facebook to self-publishing ones like YouTube and MySpace, the ability to distribute the material is out there.'



The plot quickens