We often complain that mobile phones have separate people's mobile phones from their own mobile phones.
This is because others use mobile phones, it seems that they can shoot blockbusters with their hands, and our own well...
No, Apple simply amplifies this thing, let's see what we can shoot when we use the iPhone to the extreme.
So starting in 2018, every year before the Lunar New Year, Apple will release a micro-movie.
In the end, it always ends with "shooting with the iPhone", so although it is a movie, it is actually the muscle that shows the new iPhone camera every year.
Last year's iPhone 13 Pro, again Dolby Vision, proRes professional format, but also movie mode...
Even the storage space has been raised to 1TB of capacity, which is obviously for shooting videos.
The machine brother really wanted to know if it could shoot something so hard when it blew so hard.
Today, this year's Lunar New Year movie has finally arrived, called "Comeback".
Not surprisingly, it was shot with the iPhone 13 Pro.
However, in previous years, the length was about 10 minutes, and this year it directly soared to 21 minutes, and the machine brother estimated that in two or three years, it would become a theatrical movie level...
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Unlike previous years, apple's "Comeback" is still a drama film, with multiple characters driving the plot.
Probably speaking, a group of rural villagers, they saw that the village was similar to the environment of Mars, and they thought of making a movie similar to Martian Rescue to turn the village into a net red village.
As the story unfolds, they learn that they want to unite to keep the village and not be buried because it is too barren.
Good fellow, Cook's ideological consciousness this year is high enough.
However, this year's Apple's "Comeback" attracted the attention of the machine brother, not that the plot is colorful, but the creativity in the process of shooting with the iPhone.
If you're just starting out watching the movie, it might be hard to believe that some of the shots were shot on an iPhone.
For example, is the manned spacecraft over Mars really not using computer-rendered special effects?
And when the Mars rover lands, this can also be filmed with an iPhone?
After landing, the rover traveled on the barren terrain, which looked very realistic.
After reading it, the brother felt that he had a fake iPhone in his hand.
But today, Apple released shooting tidbits behind the movie, which made many netizens call out creative.
The so-called manned spacecraft is really just a handmade model, surrounded by a rusty iron pot.
Even the iPhone doesn't even use an external auxiliary lens, it is shot directly with the 13 Pro's macro mode.
The fire that spews out is really just fireworks:
As for the rover, as long as you lower the iPhone a little, or even plug it in the dirt, you can shoot this kind of shot.
Similarly, the picture of the rover traveling, the fans should now guess how to shoot it, right?
The machine brother thinks this is quite interesting.
When individuals shoot videos, they can use this low-cost way of "using the props around them" instead of specially setting up a scene or using computer modeling to render the picture.
I flipped through it today, Apple has a special series "Experiments" abroad, which is dedicated to teaching everyone how to shoot unexpected shots with the iPhone.
In an episode last year, it was also mentioned that using "iPhone + toy car" can shoot car chase pictures in blockbuster movies.
The picture you see
Passerby perspective
If you also want to add some sense of substitution, you can also add some gadgets.
After the car passes, the "ice cream tube" will be shocked. In fact, it was the photographer who hammered it with his hand:
Do you feel like you've been cheated all along?
Whether it is an iron pot, a toy car, or fireworks, they are actually very common things in our daily lives, and maybe if we look at them from a different perspective, they will become very different.
Along this line of thinking, don't let the idea stop.
Fans may have seen this kind of footage in some of Apple's promotional films:
A lot of people think it's computer-rendered, but the real thing is...
You buy some paint for painting, pour it into the bottle a few times, and then buy a colored cardboard and put it on the back, which you can also take pictures with your mobile phone:
If you put some small props in front of the mobile phone camera, you may have a more wonderful effect.
Like Apple's "Daughter" two years ago, the kaleidoscope was put in front of the iPhone lens, simulating the way children see the world through the kaleidoscope.
Therefore, the machine brother feels that the iPhone is secondary, and the key is to look at the creativity. Learn these skills, and you can use them on Android phones as well.
As mentioned above, you can use the small objects around you when shooting.
If you add a special perspective, the picture is even more brilliant.
The mobile phone naturally has an advantage, that is, its small size. Traditional video recorders, it is difficult to stuff in certain places, with certain angles to shoot things.
Hang it on your shoulder and you can take a first-person picture with a strong sense of substitution:
The kung fu action we see today, slapping the enemy with one slap, is actually a shot of hanging the iPhone on the arm:
Or, tuck your phone in some weird places and you can take a very novel perspective.
Last year's Apple Christmas movie "Save Simon" was to stick the iPhone to the ceiling to shoot a vertical perspective:
The machine brother kindly reminds everyone that this seems to be a "mother-to-face" behavior, so don't try it easily.
Also, the picture of Zhou Xun opening the car locker in "Daughter" is actually hiding the iPhone inside:
At that time, when the machine brother also saw the analysis, he knew that the original mobile phone could still play like this.
Combined with these special perspectives, it really makes the video very different.
Therefore, the machine brother watched so many Apple movies and found that many shooting techniques are universal.
Except for the "movie mode", which switches between different characters, which is exclusive to the iPhone 13 series, other shooting methods are not very dependent on the iPhone.
Whether it is An Apple user or an Android user, you can learn from it
The machine brother told everyone the secret behind the camera today, and the friends will no longer feel "other people's mobile phones" in the future, the key is still creativity and action.
This reminds the machine brother of a sentence: the best shooting equipment must be the one in your hand. Starting to shoot with your hands is much more critical than what equipment to use.