Some of these tips – tricks could be applied to your video works.
Category Archives: practice
Tangerine mobile movie
Verge article:
How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S
Plenty of amateur films have been shot using iPhones, but by all reports, this is the first movie at the Sundance Film Festival to be shot almost entirely on an Apple device. It was a decision that indie writer and director Sean Baker made to accommodate the film’s small budget. But you’d never guess the camera, to look at it: Tangerine was shot in a widescreen, 2:35:1 aspect ratio, and its camera zooms through the streets of LA with a fluidity you’d never expect from a handheld device. And yet despite his camera of choice, Baker says the iPhone made for a good partner. “It was surprisingly easy,” Baker says. “We never lost any footage.”
NY Time article
Sean Baker Talks ‘Tangerine,’ and Making a Movie With an iPhone
He studied the video site Vimeo and a specific channel that focused on iPhone short films. “I was so impressed by what I saw,” he said. “I thought, ‘This holds up.’ ”
He combined the adapters with Filmic Pro, an inexpensive app with several useful tools.
“The separate ability to control white balance, focus and exposure were key fundamentals that enabled them to get good focus points in every shot,” said Neill Barham, the founder and chief executive of Filmic Pro, explaining how his app helped the “Tangerine” crew.
The filmmakers bought three iPhone 5s for the shoot, but used only two at a time, with Mr. Baker and his co-cinematographer, Radium Cheung, recording at different angles. They used a Steadicam hand-held support called the Smoothee for stabilized shots. To achieve some sweeping shots that may have required a dolly if used with a traditional camera, Mr. Baker rode his bicycle, one hand on the iPhone and the other on the handlebars. “It literally felt like I was 12 years old, shooting my VHS movies in New Jersey,” he said.
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The Lumenati CS1 pairs with your iPhone 6 or next gen iPhone (releasing in September) to create a classic film camera.
Brainstorming – multiple sketches
Eric Booth music educator at Carnegie Hall, New York.
I have posted this video in relation to the PROJECT THREE sketches. The aim of these sketches is to try things, innovate without to much concern about the end point. The success of this approach is demonstrated in Booth’s example of the two groups of pottery students taking a different approach to producing a work.
Notes:
Open to ideas before settling on an idea
“Don’t just settle on the first [idea]”
Satisficing to uni-directional and not exploratory (no chance of discovering accidents)
Uninhibited creativity – remove judgement, control – play to discover
Screen capture filmmaking
This article ‘Modern Family’s new episode never leaves the screen of a MacBook Pro’, on ‘The Verge’ looks at the concept of “screen capture filmmaking” with the program made using a laptop camera to record the show. Screen capture filmmaking is a technique that has become quite prominent in experiments in the mobile videography studio with students using airplay and other technologies like QuickTime to record the screen of the mobile interface/screen as it being used. If you used the screen capture filmmaking technique this semester you can now name it in your report as a particular type of practice.
MacBooks and iPhones pop up in movies and TV so often that it’s nearly a trope unto itself, but on February 25th ABC’s Modern Family is going a step further. A new episode called “Connection Lost” takes place entirely on the screen of a character’s laptop — and while it’s a fun new riff on the sitcom’s successful formula, it’s also one of the most glowing love letters to the Mac you’ll see this this side of an Apple keynote.