Smartphone Films
Smartphone Films are making through camera phones with enough video visual quality for theatrical performance or to preview on outside screens. These are also called as mobile phone or cell phone movies. In this ultra-modern era of cinema, many filmmakers are competing each other to capture high quality visual effects with prestigious ultra high-definition digital cameras, a team of youngsters has come up with this new medium, which is perhaps quite strange to conceive, to shoot even full-length films.
In 2006, two Italian directors, Marcello Mencarini and Barbara Seghezzi, have reportedly scored a documentary using a mobile phone. This 93-minutes documentary film, New Love Meetings, is said to be a modern version of 1965 documentary film, Love Meetings. This new version was filmed in MPEG4 format with a mobile phone.
And, In 2007, the film, Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan was launched by Cyrus Frisch. The films is about a Dutch Afghan War veteran who recalls his experiences during the war and tells how he came to cope with them.
In 2008, the team of youngsters from India repeated the success of this capture medium of film making. They made a 26-minute documentary film Veena Vaadanam using a Nokia N70 mobile phone. This documentary develops through the conversation between Sathish Kalathil, director and producer of the documentary and Sujith Aalungal, a painter giving insights into the evolution of different schools of art across the world.
The successful completion of Veena Vaadanam has given them the confidence to launch another 'mobile phone film project'. In 2010, they launched a full-length movie fully shot through Nokia N95 mobile phone without outside-traditional film-camera lenses called Jalachhayam directed by Sathish Kalathil, which deals with the lives of two artists.
In 2011, another movie shot by Nokia N8 smartphone, called Olive. The film narrates about "a little girl who transforms the lives of three people without speaking, directed by Hooman Khalili. Chris Kelly, former chief privacy officer at Facebook supplied its finance. But, the film was not shot with its original capture medium camera lens. The filmmakers of the film depended outside-traditional film camera lenses to capture the film.
In 2015, Tangerine, comedy-drama American film was produced by Sean Baker, Karrie Cox, Marcus Cox, Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou through iPhone 5s smartphone. The story of the film follows a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her. And the film was directed by Sean Baker, one of the producers of the film.
In 2006, two Italian directors, Marcello Mencarini and Barbara Seghezzi, have reportedly scored a documentary using a mobile phone. This 93-minutes documentary film, New Love Meetings, is said to be a modern version of 1965 documentary film, Love Meetings. This new version was filmed in MPEG4 format with a mobile phone.
And, In 2007, the film, Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan was launched by Cyrus Frisch. The films is about a Dutch Afghan War veteran who recalls his experiences during the war and tells how he came to cope with them.
In 2008, the team of youngsters from India repeated the success of this capture medium of film making. They made a 26-minute documentary film Veena Vaadanam using a Nokia N70 mobile phone. This documentary develops through the conversation between Sathish Kalathil, director and producer of the documentary and Sujith Aalungal, a painter giving insights into the evolution of different schools of art across the world.
The successful completion of Veena Vaadanam has given them the confidence to launch another 'mobile phone film project'. In 2010, they launched a full-length movie fully shot through Nokia N95 mobile phone without outside-traditional film-camera lenses called Jalachhayam directed by Sathish Kalathil, which deals with the lives of two artists.
In 2011, another movie shot by Nokia N8 smartphone, called Olive. The film narrates about "a little girl who transforms the lives of three people without speaking, directed by Hooman Khalili. Chris Kelly, former chief privacy officer at Facebook supplied its finance. But, the film was not shot with its original capture medium camera lens. The filmmakers of the film depended outside-traditional film camera lenses to capture the film.
In 2015, Tangerine, comedy-drama American film was produced by Sean Baker, Karrie Cox, Marcus Cox, Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou through iPhone 5s smartphone. The story of the film follows a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her. And the film was directed by Sean Baker, one of the producers of the film.
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