Apple’s marketing video—“Paris Réalisé avec l’iPhone”—does more than sell the smartphone and Paris. This short movie offers dozens of lessons for mobile moviemaking students at any level. The “curriculum” includes split screening, contrasting slow and fast motion, matching geometric shapes, and framing within frames. Of course, the 38-second commercial—featuring the music of French rappeur Lomepal—…
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Filmmaker Blake Calhoun has made movies using 16mm, Mini DV, DVCPro HD, Canon 7D, Blackmagic Cinema Camera, RED digital cameras, and now iPhones. But whatever the technology, his creative philosophy of DIY Filmmaking remains constant: “Always make sure it does not look like DIY.” A recent example is “Miranda,” a taut 4-minute thriller that demonstrates an…
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Simon Horrocks’ “Silent Eye” sci fi anthology series is now in distribution at Amazon. The first episode “You Have Been Chosen” stars Zoe Cunningham and runs for about 15 minutes. The purchase price is $.99. The movie was shot using a Samsung Galaxy S8. Additional resources were supplied by Moondog Labs (lenses), Zhiyun (stabilize), Sennheiser (headphones), RØDE…
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Benjamin Lapierre and Alexandre Gaudou do it all. These two French guys comprise the total cast and crew of Little Walk of Fame movie productions. They script, light, direct, record, edit, and take turns acting. The result is delightful, minimalist moviemaking of a sort that can inspire all filmmakers, especially those without vast resources. Their latest effort is…
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Editing is a crucial activity whether you’re documenting a straightforward event—like a birthday party—or producing a complex music video. While mastering the art of editing can take a lifetime, today’s editing apps make it easy to handle the fundamentals such as choosing shots, rearranging them, trimming the shots, and adding transitions, visual effects, and sound. iMovie covers the basics, and its price—$0.00—is appealing.…
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Ernest Hemingway famously said: “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” In other words, what the writer does with the first draft material determines success. For the author, rewriting includes selecting what to keep and what to drop, moving text from one place to another, shortening passages, and adding details. In the world of moviemaking, the corresponding step…
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