My First iPhone Movie...

Hello everyone - forgive me, but I thought you might be interested in a film I made of a GT3 racing driver, Jody Fannin, using my iPhone. Filmed it at Oulton Park last week with a specialist "cinemascope" lens and I'm pleased with the way it has turned out. The in car footage was shot on a different camera. I think it underlines how far phones have come. Challenges of course with iphone filming, but things are getting better all the time. I used an app called FiLMiC Pro which helped immensely. Hope you like it!

 

Nice job. Looks very good. Thanks for sharing.

Question. How am I supposed to feel when watching this?

The music makes me feel like I should be watching something bittersweet, perhaps sad, or that I should feel happy for someone overcoming some tragedy.

 

Ah that's interesting ... to me it felt a thoughtful piece of music, contemplative ... about someone who truly loves their sport and gives it their all.

 

Very professional looking, this is something you should continue doing as you never know where it can take you.

Bravo!

 

I'm not seeing any video or link....

 

Oh - seems to be fine here, but try this:

 

Looks very professional. If you didn't tell us I would be scratching my head, definitely great quality for a phone. That custom lens you added must surely have made a difference, too.

Nice editing also. You should invest more to your hobby, you're good.

 

Many thanks - it's an interested by experience for sure. The positives include the ease of manoeuvring the camera in and around tight spots and not get in the way too much. Light and easy. The "challenges" include the tiny native lens, controlling contrast in changing lighting conditions and focus in moving frames. You're also looking at things through a smallish screen.

 

Cheers for the YT version. Good little film and the quality, with respect to the hardware used, is pretty damn good. I'm not jealous of the guy in any way......

 

Nice job. You can do amazing things with the iPhone and the right equipment. I have a stabilizer for my iPhone and 5D and in most cases prefer to shoot with the iPhone because it does a fantastic job and is far more portable.

 

very nice, you should send in your clip to:

By email/telephone: editor@topgear.com or call 020 7150 5558
By post: TopGear.com, Second Floor A, Energy Centre, Media Centre, 201 Wood Lane, W12 7TQ

 

You said specialist "cinemascope" lens...can you share which lens you used?
I use two lenses by Moment for my iPhonegrahpy.

Cheers.

 

Hi - it's a moondog labs anamorphic lens.

 

Its a nice well produced video

My one bit of constructive criticism would be to try to use more than one angle when doing actual interviews, so that you can cut to something else. So have the main profile shot, but then either have a wide shot, or a shot angled more towards the side etc, it helps to break up the talking sections of the video. We did 3 camera interviews, main profile, closeups (hands, eyes, head) and then a wide shot of the subject sat down. Of course, its much tougher to achieve if you are a one man operation.

Cameras now are so much lighter than they were 10 years ago too, so thats not so much of an issue now.

 

Hi Ben - yes excellent point on visual variance for the interview. Easy to do too if planned.

 

Thanks.