Framed

Framed a Short Film

Before you read this post take a look at the short film we looked at in college called Framed. (link above) Its a very nicely shot short film. Good shots and a great storyline. The first thing I thought when I was watching this was the quality of the camera, it was crystal clear. The first thing I thought when I saw the opening few scenes is they must of used a very high tech camera to shoot this. It wasn't to the end when we saw the credits that it was all shot on an iPhone 4s! It was pretty astonishing to know we have this camera tech at our finger tips and we don't even know. This post is going to be about what add ons you can buy for your simple iPhones that can make is easy for anyone to get out there and shoot some films.

The first thing I found after browsing around was this small tripod adapter you can buy for your iPhone. This allows you to connect your iPhone to an adapter which then lets you connect it to a tripod. This is a neat contraption which is very affective. This will allow you to shoot better clips because this will eliminate the jerky shots you get when holding your iPhone. This will also allow to shoot different shots such as over the shoulder and much higher angled shots. For only £9.99 it is a must buy for anyone wanting to take top quality shots with their iPhone.

 The next product I found was the aluminium lens you can attach to your phone. This allows you to get better focused shots and most importantly you can get shots from a further distance. The zoom on an iPhone 4s goes up to 5x optical zoom. This added on lens allows you to go up to 12x optical zoom what increases the zoom capability dramatically. This lens also comes with a three legged tripod which you can attach so your shots are level and are not wobbling.

This last product was produced by apple. iMovie. Anyone that edits films or has a mac should know what iMovie is. On the mac iMovie was a simple and very easy to use peace of software which allows you to edit clips together into a movie. Having this on an iPhone now you first think, how could it be possible? How could an iPhone cope with iMovie? Apple have made iMovie even better having it on an iPhone. Putting it on the iPhone changes the way people are going to edit. This means we can film on our smartphones and then edit all the clips in one place. We can edit on the move and upload it on the was to work or while you are having your lunch time coffee. Using the clever apple gestures it makes it simple to add transitions make clips slowmo and even add effects to the clips.

So after looking around we can do virtually everything now on an iPhone. We can film, take photos and even edit now! But does this mean some day we are going to see video cameras fade away? At the moment I don't think so but as technology improves and cameras get better will everything been done on these neat small devices?