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You Can Make a Movie with Your Phone

Bart Weiss on 'Smartphone Cinema'
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Behind the scenes footage of ‘28 Years Later’

On this week’s episode, I’m rejoined by Bart Weiss to discuss the evolution of the iPhone-shot movie from Tangerine to 28 Years Later and his recent book, Smartphone Cinema: Making Great Films with Your Mobile Phone. You have the power to make a movie in the palm of your hand: will you use it? If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend!

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Jake's avatar

This is a great episode. I have been having fun playing with iPhone cinema for awhile now. This is a short I made half a decade ago. I went with iPhone since I had absolutely no permission to shoot a film at this comic book convention.

It turned out well enough but had I used the mics talked about on this episode, along with the new iPhone 16 audio tools, and Premiere Pro essential sound tools it would be far better.

https://vimeo.com/461132674

This iPhone shot film was done two years later. We made it as a proof of concept for the feature “I Agree With You” that I discussed with Sonny awhile back.

Two years after the film above and you can see some of the improvements. Again, had I shot it and used the audio tools available now it would have been different.

https://vimeo.com/461132674

Again, really enjoyed hearing what Mr. Weiss had to say.

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PB's avatar

I continue to ponder why a reviewer of visual arts continues to produce audio only podcasts, especially as I have seen Mr Bunch on other Bulwark videos and he does just fine. Please give us some talking heads, a few stills, and the occasional video clip.

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