I’m no video expert. Not even close. So take this story – of an aspiring pop singer’s video of a debut single being shot entirely on an iPhone 3GS – with as many grains of salt as you like.
The short story is: the singer is Reyna Perez, the song is ‘Love Love Love’, and the video was shot by her fiancee, and video producer, Ari Kuschnir.
The longer story is as follows:
Reyna Perez has embraced the concept of digital collaboration with her
self-titled EP. She recorded each song in Brooklyn on acoustic guitar at a home
studio and emailed the tracks to producer Michael Maurice (Curio Sound) in
Denver. Over the course of 2 months, Maurice mastered her songs into full
fledged productions using Logic software and his own instruments. "I’ve given
them a warm analogue sound, without using any actual analogue equipment; it’s a
testament to the times, and I’m very happy with the results," says Maruice.The final mixes arrived via ftp on Friday, June 17th, the same day the iphone
3GS hit the streets. Video producer Ari Kuschnir, Reyna’s fiancee, purchased
the iPhone after a two hour wait, made shorter by listening to the tracks.
Hearing the new music and playing with 3GS, he had an idea. "It became clear
that the phone’s camera quality was good enough to shoot a music video. It
seemed fitting for the project."
I traded a few emails with Ari and he gave me a bit more background on how the video was done, on the iPhone 3GS and with some help later from Final Cut Pro:
This music video was shot with the new iphone 3GS video camera (the first?) and then I loaded all the clips onto my laptop. I used final cut pro to import and edit the individual clips. So there’s a bit of post involved but we did some things on camera too, trying to get a beautiful image and embracing the limitations of the camera (like auto shutter).
Basically the camera shoots at 29.97 frames per second at 640 * 480 pixels using the h264 compression, which is good quality.
I’m attaching a screenshot of my phone with a lot of the shots. My hope is that for the next one I can shoot and edit on the phone itself, you can do it for still photographs right now so hopefully someone is working on that app.
Here’s that screencap:
There are further photos of the ‘making of’ for this video at Reyna’s Facebook page, as well as more detail on the song, and her story. Check all that out HERE.
My feeling – again as an absolute non-expert – is that this video was likely shot with an iPhone 3GS. It seems pretty well done, and if legit, it’s a nice demo of what can be done with the 3GS.
Go HERE – or just tap the image at the top of the post – to see the video. Let us know what you think of it. Or share any similar videos you’ve seen that were done with a 3GS.
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Interestingly done. The lighting was well controlled. Whenever there was a light background, there were moire patterns on it. The steadiness of what was presumed to be a hand held shot was quite good.
The other day my cat was climbing a tree and presented a cute shot. I took out my 3Gs and did some shooting in a difficult lighting shot with bright sky behind a leafy tree. After looking at it, I got my sony DSC150 "shirt pocket" still cam and shot much better exposed and higher res stuff. I posted the sony on youtube. I'll upload the 3Gs and send links for comparison.
The 3Gs video feature is quite good for what it is and the audio was far superior on the 3Gs to that of the sony.
They used a tripod for some / all of it – it shows this at their Facebook page. Comparison sounds interesting – thanks Larry.
cool looking tripod clamp for the iPhone.
Yeah it is.
I uploaded the 3Gs vid taken at the same time and place as the previously uploaded kiki in tree clip.
iPhone 3Gs : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ktudvs2jhc
Sony DSC W150: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGaPJEjh_0E
Thanks for those Larry. Were the wind conditions roughly the same for both? If so, then wow, the 3GS really does much better noise-cancelling.
Yes wind was the same. I haven't done much video with the sony, but I am impressed with the iPhone mic. I have downloaded RTA from Studio six and the internal mic seems to be quite flat and sensitive. I like the sound of my voice on it.
I look forward to being able to do audio boo and/or tweetmic from my laptop where I will have a good mic and mixer ahead of the sound card and compare….
Wind the same = wow, the iPhone mic is quite impressive I'd say.
Hey. great video. This was also done on the iphone 3GS. Check it out and let me know what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saDguIg9CIE
Good stuff – thanks for sharing.
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