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 →What do “The Wizard of Oz,” “Gone with the Wind,” “Blade Runner,” “The Graduate,” “War of the Worlds,” and “The Maltese Falcon” have in common? Along with hundreds of other memorable feature movies, these hits were based on previously published material. Often the source was a novel. But in some cases the underlying text was a…
read more →A memorable travelogue isn’t just a collection of pretty shots. Like a movie in any genre, a travelogue needs a defining idea, for example, “Manhattan Is a Place of Surprising Sounds.” You can focus your travelogue before you leave home, or—as with William Long’s “Pushkar,” you can discover the essence of your movie during the trip. Either way, the…
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