Framed: An iPhone 4S Film

By Octavia Silva / October 27th, 2011 in Film / / 1592 views

With the iPhone 4S being heralded as having the device’s best camera yet, it was only a matter of time before we saw attempts to shoot a professional film using only a telephone. Forget that story about The Avengers being shot with the phone; French filmmaker Mäel Sevestre has used the 4S to shoot his new short, Framed.

Focusing on a lone photographer quietly exploring nature, the film ironically highlights an antique camera. The story’s protagonist uses the lens in this camera to find meaning in his excursion, meaning that is bound to a frame and wets the photographer’s thirst for more.

Impressively, the film was recorded with an iPhone 4S and edited on Final Cut Pro 7 for Apple. Sevestre’s talent as a filmmaker certainly comes through in the film, but the fact that he only used an iPhone gives the film an untouchable edge.

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One Response to Framed: An iPhone 4S Film

  1. Sofus Comer

    Very good work. Well written little script. Liked the ambience and the story. Its also impressive that all of this is done on iPhone 4s. Of course you did some post in Final Cut or similar. But how was the exposure to work with. I noticed some pans where exposure slightly deviated. Is it all manual?