Over the years we have seen some well-known filmmakers using smartphones to shoot music videos and even entire movies. Samsung also wants to join the trend with its new smartphones and for this it has approached two well-known directors Sir Ridley Scott and Korean Na Hong-jin.
Of course, you probably know Scott from countless award-winning movies, like Blade Runner, The Gladiator, The Martian, Alien And stop counting. Na Hong-jin, on the other hand, is less well-known outside of South Korea, but has some great movies to her credit, such as Charming and Dark. sighwhy the Chaser,
The fact that both filmmakers have tasked themselves with making short films using the cameras of the new Galaxy S23 Ultra, but the best are huge style cameras with stabilizers and professional equipment typically used in Hollywood productions. For Scott, the idea intrigued him as to how such a small device could achieve such great results, especially in lighting, shadow and contrast management. it’s small, SeeA story set in an aggressive urban environment, a boy moves out into the countryside and finds peace by meeting and interacting with an animal, a horse, and giving it freedom.
In the case of Na Hong-jin, her younger, Faithtakes place in almost complete darkness, between corridors with shadows and very low light, apparently as an attempt to test the camera’s capabilities of these smartphones to record video in very low light (something Samsung has done with this). heavily emphasised). during his presentation this year). Faith, says Hong-jin, is about belief and how values ​​can change from person to person. Their advance promises mystery and some action, amid quite the grisly corridors. The filmmaker says that one of the biggest challenges of their production was the fact that almost the entire short is shot with very little lighting, and adding too much light to illuminate the scene would have hindered the director’s vision of what he wanted to do. The intention changes what it wants to convey. “HDR was important,” he says.
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As I mentioned at the beginning of these lines, this is not the first time that we have seen directors recording commercial productions with smartphones. In 2018, director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven) premiered a film of about 100 minutes Recorded with iPhone 7 Plus, Steven Spielberg recently recorded a music video with un iphonein a few hours and in a way Improvised without professional stuff like stabilizers, but Spielberg being him and the creativity he had, the result was still of very good quality.
Now, it’s interesting to see Samsung join the trend and highlight the potential of its smartphone cameras for not just photos but also good quality videos, especially with the S23 Ultra and Its main 200MP sensor,
Unfortunately, the Ridley Scott and Na Hong-jin shorts haven’t been released yet, but we do have behind-the-scenes glimpses that give us a tour of the production process as narrated by the filmmakers.
