Oldboy' Filmmaker Creates Movie with iPhone
CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - A South Korean filmmaker has debuted what is believed to be the first cinema-standard movie shot on an Apple iPhone.
PC Magazine reported that Park Chan-wook, director of the movies "Oldboy" and "Mother," shot the 30-minute fantasy-horror film "Paranmanjang" ("Ups and Downs" in English) on his iPhone 4.
The movie cost $130,00 to make. Park and Korea Telecom, South Korea's exclusive iPhone carrier, funded it as a promotion for the carrier.
Park, the Wall Street Journal reported, did everything including hunting for a film location and shooting auditions on the iPhone. He worked with his younger brother Park Chan-kyong, a media artist, on the project.
The movie is a story that starts with a middle-aged fisherman. He catches the body of a woman and, as he tries to get his line loose, becomes more tangled up.
He faints just to wake up in the white clothes of the woman. The story becomes one of life and death from a Korean point of view as the movie's point of view shifts to the woman.
Discovery News said the movie took 80 people and 10 days to create.
Park used two iPhones, shooting scenes simultaneously from different angles, while staffers also used their own iPhones.
"Some of them had an unexpectedly interesting angle," Park told Discovery News.
The Wall Street Journal said the quality of the cinematography was good other than some shakiness in the beginning. The screen is course, but that works with the film's life-and-death theme, the publication stated.
PROne, Park's agent, said the movie would be the first one filmed on an iPhone to be shown in cinemas when it opens in South Korean theaters on Jan. 27
The San Francisco Chronicle detailed other creative attempts such as a short film, "Apple of My Eye," shot by University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts master's candidate Michael Koerbel. The film, also shot on an iPhone 4, shows a grandfather daydreaming about his toy train collection.
The newspaper said Apple's iMovie, its video-editing program, has been released for the iPhone and at a cost of $4.99 is now Apple's App Store's third-highest-grossing application.
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