Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The iPhone Feature Film

            The Iphone Feature Film

    This post is going to be short and dedicated to the first major feature film that has used smart phones to record a great deal of the footage. The film is titled The Bay. It was co-written and directed by the academy award winning director Barry Levinson.

    To have a film maker of this caliber deciding to shoot a motion picture using nothing but digital cameras and smart phones is going to be a game changer in the indie film world. Anyone of us with a little creativity can produce a feature using these devices.

    Here is the trailer for what many will consider the first major iPhone feature films.

The Bay Trailer:


    It will be in theaters and on demand very soon. I have seen the movie already and I can say that the best footage in the movie seems to have been shot using a smart phone. The blending of different kinds of devices used to record footage is very well done. Even the Skpe footage looks great. The Bay is a found footage film and that is the obvious place to begin with this type of film making, but the iPhone could easily be used to shoot a narrative feature length movie with the proper lighting and equipment.

    Okay that is it for today. I promised someone who emailed me that I would leave a video about a certain cell phone case. They have seen the ads on this site and wanted to know what it was all about.

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The Snugg