Media Meditation #4: Apple of my ieye

So for this post I was looking around the internet and talking with my friends and we were wondering if it was possible to shoot a film on an iPhone.



As it turns out, it is entirely possible to not only shoot a movie in HD on the iPhone 4G but it is also possible to edit your footage with the $5 iMovie app

After very little searching I found an example (possibly the first online) of a short film that was shot and edited on the Apple iPhone. It is called "Apple of My Eye" and the really cool thing about this is they have a 'behind the scenes' describing how they did it all.

Apple of My Eye from Michael Koerbel on Vimeo.

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Shot and edited entirely on the iPhone 4 / iMovie App (in 48 hours).

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In loving memory of Leigh Koerbel
February 28, 1950 - September 27, 2010

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Read some of the press about APPLE OF MY EYE:

Reelz Channel HOLLYWOOD DAILIES Interview
http://www.reelzchannel.com/trailer-clips/49450/apple-of-my-eye-interview

CNN - "A new 'indie' genre: iPhone 4 filmmaking"
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/08/10/iphone.imovie.indie/index.html?hpt=T2

CNET - "iPhone 4 video embodies new-tech aesthetic"
http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-20009278-264.html

San Francisco Chronicle - "Mobile devices expanding creativity"
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-07-10/business/21978092_1_iphone-ipad-apple-s-app-store

USA Today - "Shooting and Editing Travel Videos In the iPhone"
http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2010/07/wish-you-were-here-shooting-and-editing-travel-videos-in-the-iphone4/99957/1

Sacramento News 13 Segment
http://www.asilocal.com/media/sacramento-news-13.mov

Sacramento News 10 Segment
http://www.asilocal.com/media/sacramento-news-10.mov

The iOScars - "Apple of My Eye Inspires iOScars"
http://theioscars.com/about

MacRumors - "Short Film Shot and Edited Entirely on iPhone4"
http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2010/06/29/short-film-shot-and-edited-entirely-on-iphone-4/

MacDailyNews - "Short film shot and edited with iMovie on iPhone 4"
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/25823/

TUAW - "Video shot and edited entirely on an iPhone 4"
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/29/video-shot-and-edited-entirely-on-an-iphone-4/

Notebook - "iMovie for the iPhone 4: Details and Review"
http://www.notebooks.com/2010/07/02/imovie-for-the-iphone-4-details-and-review/

PSFK - "iOscars Celebrates Mobile Filmmaking"
http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/ioscars-celebrates-mobile-filmmaking.html

The Observer News - "Moving Pictures That Will Move You"
http://www.theobservernews.com/news/observing-the-web/448-moving-pictures-that-will-move-you.html

Permission To Suck Blog - "Equipment Doesn’t Matter; iPhone Movies & Michael Koerbel"
http://www.permissiontosuck.net/iphone-movies/

Directed by Michael Koerbel
Written by Anna Elizabeth James and Michael Koerbel
Executive Produced by Anna Elizabeth James
Produced by Eric Edmonds and Rebekah Koerbel
Photographed by Michael Koerbel
Edited by Anna Elizabeth James
Production Design by Leigh Koerbel
Original Score Composed and Conducted by Corey Wallace

Starring Greta Charness and Timothy Guest

Special thanks to
Allied Model Trains, Culver City, CA
Birns & Sawyer, Burbank, CA
Michael Rogers
Greta's Parents

NOTE: All the pictures along the right side of the page were also taken with iPhone 4.

Michael Koerbel and Anna Elizabeth James are current MFA students at USC's School of Cinematic Arts.
Eric Edmonds is a Chapman University grad.
Corey Wallace is a graduate student from USC's Thornton School of Music. www.coreywallace.com
Rebekah Koerbel graduated with a degree in Communications from the University of Arizona.

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The really nice thing about shooting HD video on the iPhone is that it is much smaller than most cameras that do HD but this allows you to put it almost anywhere you can imagine!

Another thing I found whilst searching for iPhone movies was this:



This "thing" is the Factron Quattro, which is a Japanese made (of course) iPhone case that supports interchangeable lenses including a fish eye, macro and wide angle. The case alone is $200 and the lenses can cost up to $56 each. This is an amazing price when you consider the alternative DSLR's for upwards of $1000.

Media Meditation #3: I got excited...

Today whilst browsing the internet I wound up on imdb.com and as I clicked off the main site I saw something that caught my eye, you know the guys that do 'Sean of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz'



Those guys. Well anyways I am a huge fan of both of those films, in particular I really like the way they use repetition, not just each film by itself but repetition that spans between the two films, something you don't realize until having watched both. I would be proud to make something as good as this one day...but I digress. The reason I bring these two gentlemen up is because I saw the trailer for their latest film...which involves an alien voiced by Seth Rogen (who is a fantastic voice actor, as well as a physical actor) but it looks like it going to be really entertaining. I don't know if I can wait until February!

Nanotechnology - Nanoscopic particles that could pose serious health risks to humans and the environment

1. 5-7 essential "facts" re: your Project Censored 2011 story, based on your reading of the PC2011 text

Nanotechnology involves manipulating or building new materials from atoms and molecules with silver and carbon being the most important building blocks. Personal products such as cosmetics, suntan lotion, socks and sports clothes contain nanotech particles which can sicken and kill workers in plants using nanotech.
Nanomaterials are so pooly understood but that doesn't stop over 1000 consumers products utilizing these particles which can be 100 times smaller than a virus!
These nanoparticles may be beneficial in certain medical applications but more studies are needed. The projected annual market of nanotechnology by the year 2015 could be around one trillion dollars (1,000,000,000,000). Carbon nanofibers, which are added to car tires and woven into clothing are likely to be shed where they can cause lung damage after being inhaled by triggering a programmed cell death known as autophagic cell death. Over one-thousand nanotechnology enabled products are available to consumers.
After this story was published it was not widely reported and the intent is not to target silver nanoparticles but rather concentrate on the safety of nanotechnology.

2. The specific results of your LEXIS NEXIS search for articles about your story - is this, in fact, a truly "censored" story? Provide us with as many links as you can to news coverage of this story in the U.S. and global press

I would have to say that this story does not appear to be as censored as the authors claim it to be, on the Lexis Nexis search engine I found many articles relating to nanotechnology including a decent amount of studies (most were published on Oct 1, 2010 in EXPANDED REPORTING which may explain why it did not show up in the book.


3. Further research you've done on this story - links to and/or "embeds" of at least 3 videos, photos, political cartoons, blogs, or articles that relate to your story

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And finally a silly video!

MIDTERMINATION...

1. After studying media for eight weeks in this class, what have you learned? Please be specific.

In studying media these past eight weeks I have learned that media are so integrated into our day-to-day lives that we barely even stop to think about what it could be doing to us as humans. We are changing the way our brains process information. Google is, in my opinion revolutionizing the way we work, we no longer have the need to pour over large amounts of text, we can instantly find the exact snippet of text we want to reference or examine. Some articles argued that Google is making us stupid whereas I think it is making us more powerful, in the article he claimed we no longer process the information which I think is untrue, instead we explore the idea later and with our peers.


2. What is the most important thing you have learned about yourself as a critical reader, a writer, and a thinker in this class so far.

I have learned that I am unable to process a large amount of prose, unless it is a narrative. I am easily distracted when reading or writing but I have learned to use these distractions as time to ponder what I am reading/writing about and gain inspiration from the world around me.


3. What's one thing you would do differently this first half of the semester if you were to take this class again?

I would have spent more time getting used to Blogger as I am still a little unfamiliar with it and would like to become a better blogger. I would also, in reading the material again take notes while reading to further instill the ideas in my long term memory.


4. What's one thing you would like me to do differently this first half of the semester if you were to take this class again?

I would have liked more films or youtube videos of good examples of media (not to say yours weren't good but I know you showed something similar to this video which I think is really interesting and poses some good topics for discussion)


5. Please comment on the usefulness of the power tools, our quizzes, the course blog, your personal blog, our films and our books (Amusing, Feed, Media/Society) as learning tools?

I enjoyed the quizzes at the beginning of the semester more than the power tools ones, the ones with facts and numbers etc as it was really interesting to find out that 6 corporations control 95% of the media...which probably explains why certain stories are withheld from the public. I understand the principle behind the personal blog but I am just not really a fan of blogging (partially because of the internet interface, I would prefer it in a standalone application but I don't know if that's possible.) Feed was by far my favorite book because it was a narrative but still got an important point across, I definitely took the most away from Feed and will no doubt read it again in the future.

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