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Costa del Arnside – iPhone 4 Film

This is the short film I created for my third and final, solo, Mobile-Film task. The basic premise of the film was to try and evoke feelings of nostalgia in the viewer. The entire film was shot over a 1 day period at my home town of Arnside, a small, seaside, tourist village.

My main inspiration for this film came from a short film by Bertie Gilbert, a film maker with hundreds of thousands of subscribers on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALQ5XLp8YAc

The majority of the film was filmed on iPhone 4 and one app was used in the production of this film, FilmicPro, a hugely beneficial app to anyone in the Mobile-Film industry. FilmicPro gives the user much more control of what image is being captured. The main benefit for me was the fact I could change the capture frame rate from 24fps down to 14fps, giving the footage that ‘jittery’, ‘home movie’ look. Noise was also added to the original footage, as well as film grain and tints of turquoise and orange in Premiere Pro, using the ‘tint’ effect. All these different layers contributed to the final effect, and I feel they worked really well.

For one particular clip in the film, where the music climaxes, I shot using the iPhone 5s. The reason for this was that I really wanted to take advantage of the ‘slow-mo’ feature. To create such a steady shot I used a mic stand as a tripod. I feel like the final outcome came out really well.

Equipment:  iPhone 4, iPhone 5, Mic Stand

Apps Used: FilmicPro, Slow-Mo

Song: Aquilo – You There

Lucky – iPhone 4 Film

This was a film a shot using the iPhone 4 and edited in Premiere Pro. The idea of the film was to try and create feelings of nostalgia in the viewer. I was going for a sort of 80’s/90’s home movie style. To achieve this I shot the film at 14fps, through the app FilmicPro. In post, I then added a film grain layer into Premiere and set the overlay percentage to the desired amount. A light leak layer was also added and the same process was carried out. Using the ‘Tint’ effect in Premiere allowed me to map the Whites and Blacks to a desired a colour, in this case, a ‘muddy’ orange and turquoise will give the film that home movie look.