Metric’s latest music video—”Dark Saturday”—should give pause to mobile moviemakers who hate vertical videos. Here, director Justin Broadbent used an iPhone X to shoot separate portrait-oriented videos for each of the four band members. He then combined the footage to capture how each character dealt with late-night loneliness. The result—which should please those who favor traditional framing—is a landscape-oriented movie consisting…

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Here’s another reason to applaud YouTube: that site is a major factor in today’s short film renaissance. In our hustle-bustle era where every minute seems precious, short films can give viewers a lot of entertainment without breaking their time budgets. But the form is also crucial for filmmakers because making shorts is the most economical and efficient road to mastery. It also can lead into the world of feature filmmaking as…

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Simon Horrocks is a master of making movies without spending much money. His current project is “Silent Eye,” a low-budget web series distributed on Amazon. You can get a feel for his methods in the following behind-the-scenes video titled, appropriately enough, “Making a SciFi Movie with No Money.” In the interview below, he provides a number…

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Australia’s SmartFone Flick Fest will showcase its finalists at the celebrated Sydney Opera House on October 1, 2018.  Audiences at the SF3 will get to vote for the People’s Choice Awards, announced following the event. For ticket information, visit SF3.com. There’s still time to enter the competition. Deadline to submit mobile-shot movies is Wednesday, August 8 (Sydney time). The…

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Backstory refers to a character’s life before the story begins. An example from the world of comedy: near the beginning of “Tootsie,” we meet an actor who is so difficult to work with, producers refuse to hire him. And from drama: the early scenes in “Dirty Harry” introduce us to a highly effective cop—feared by the bad guys—who…

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Museums, shopping, food, architecture, music, culture, it’s all here in Vienna. Enjoy one of the most romantic European cities 🙂 FacebookTwitter

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