phone camera film
by Andrei on Oct.27, 2010, under video
I’ve always been interested in new technologies. It’s fascinating how quickly things have developed in the last “few” years. When I was in high-school, I once saw a big huge ad for a new Motorola flip phone. It had, of course, a black and white LCD screen but what was so new about it, it was the fact that it was so small. I just did a search on the internet and couldn’t even find a picture of it. A year and a half later, I went to Germany and managed to purchase one (with a contract, of course) for 100 DM (Deutsch Mark, remember the currency before the €uro?) This was a long time ago. Then came the GPRS phones, then colored screen LCD phones and then the camera phone (I’m not sure about the order of these) and pretty soon you could do all kinds of unimaginable things with a small telephone.
Well, I do appreciate this rise in the development of the technology and have a deeper theory behind it, but suffice it so say that up until roughly 200 years ago mankind could only travel as fast as they were able to in 33 AD, let’s say. Man has not been able to travel any faster than it used to during the time when Jesus walked on this earth. In the past century we’ve send people into orbit, we’ve sent people on the Moon (I wasn’t around for that one) and people could watch and hear that live on television.
Today, with a small portable telephone (ok, it’s a cell phone, or a smart phone, or whichever you want to call it) people can do something like the little film below. Unbelievable. This was filmed with the Nokia N8 phone, directed by the McHenry Brothers. It was shot in four our days with the Nokia N8 using no back up cameras, with the streets of London and St Albans being the backdrop to the story about one commuter’s eventful journey to work. Interesting what imagery can be made with a $550 telephone.
Enjoy. Make sure you watch it on HD (yes, that’s vernacular for high definition, from a telephone!)
