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…
read more →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—…
read more →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…
read more →Shooting a movie in just a few places reduces the hassle of moving crew, actors, and gear. You can save time and money. But the challenge is finding a way to give the movie visual appeal. Ben Stahl’s intense limited location thriller “The Sorting Room” can serve as a mini-textbook for how to keep people watching the screen. Notice the director’s…
read more →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…
read more →Daria Litvichenko, a young filmmaker from Moscow, won the Emerging Talent Award at this year’s SmartPhilm Fest. Her film—”Pushkin and the Dragon”—dramatizes the universal hunger for friendship. Combining realism and magical realism, the iPhone-shot movie also makes the case that even in our image-dominated world, words still matter. Although Daria is known for her skills as an animator,…
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