VIDEO: Parts of Avengers Movie Shot with iPhone 4

[zybch]

[citation][nom]Ragnar-Kon[/nom]Yeah going to have to agree. Tom's needs to give the Apple talk a rest, and this is coming from an everyday Mac user.Never mind that fact that a lot of the movies released today are edited on Final Cut Pro, on a Mac Pro.[/citation]

'REAL' content and movies are almost always edited with Media Composer by Avid. The apple stuff just isn't there for anything more complicated than cruddy 1/2 hour sitcoms and low budget drek.

 

[Draven35]

[citation][nom]zybch[/nom]'REAL' content and movies are almost always edited with Media Composer by Avid. The apple stuff just isn't there for anything more complicated than cruddy 1/2 hour sitcoms and low budget drek.[/citation]

Or at least thats what Avid keeps telling people. A lot of indie features, TV shows and music videos are edited in FCP. There are things that are also 'edited on Avid' where all the junior editors are working in FCP. Avid hasn't had the stranglehold on film and TV production that they used to for several years, one of the reasons why Avid's Xpress product disappeared and Media Composer;s features came down to 'mere mortal' prices.

Of course, a lot of things are still cut on Smoke and Inferno as well....

 

[inthere]

Lol, jeez. the iPhone wasn't used because of budget contraints, it was used for cinematography reasons. (hint: the interview is with the cinematographer!) Think the Hurt Locker and Battlefield LA. That shaky camera is now a desired Hollywood effect.

 

[CPU666d1]

Yeah! Looks as bad as an apple iPhone's photo.

 

[jecastej]

I agree with many on the technical/budget reasons but in my opinion the main point is to create a connection with the audience a current smartphone (the iPhone is one) could be used to shoot some scenes on a movie and the fantasy it will provoke on regular people. This is more engaging than the "special" effect per se.

Also the iPhone could be used because there is some small technical advantage or convenience on the software side (it could integrate well with FCP).

 

[jecastej]

Ok, Seamus McGarvey was misquoted.

"I was talking about how up and coming film makers have access to a whole range of new technologies which expand our options as filmmakers. I mentioned that the iPhone and the Canon 5d Mk2 were devices currently used on many Hollywood productions. I used the Canon on some shots on Marvel's The Avengers movie," he stated to THR. "Unfortunately, this was edited to read that I shot some of the film with the iPhone. This is not true."

 

[inthere]

[citation][nom]jecastej[/nom]Ok, Seamus McGarvey was misquoted."I was talking about how up and coming film makers have access to a whole range of new technologies which expand our options as filmmakers. I mentioned that the iPhone and the Canon 5d Mk2 were devices currently used on many Hollywood productions. I used the Canon on some shots on Marvel's The Avengers movie," he stated to THR. "Unfortunately, this was edited to read that I shot some of the film with the iPhone. This is not true."[/citation]

LOL, brought the iHaters out though, see how they instantly flamed the trailer quality?

 

[watcha]

[citation][nom]inthere[/nom]LOL, brought the iHaters out though, see how they instantly flamed the trailer quality?[/citation]

LOL

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

Apple's iPhone is not worth the effort to even insure or get warranty for. Just check out Tom's Hardware article about the Square Trade cover & you'll soon agree with me. It's just as simple as not buying a single iPhone at all, buy HTC or that Samsung smartphone & you'll be right.

 

[fwaits]

This was already confirmed to be untrue.

http/www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/avengers-dp-scenes-filmed-iphone-252083

 

[nikkidpartypooper]

Ah! Apple's iPhone is full of S**t, and that is all its for. The stupid free advertisements that they make will not make me buy one.

 

[joebob2000]

I bet the part shot on the iPhone is the campy bit where the Incredible Hulk sends an inappropriate self-shot video to Natasha via MMS in a moment of whiskey-induced "hulkness". Oddly enough it plays right into the plot...

 

[f-14]

title should read movie director spent most of his budget on his iphone4 forced to shoot with low budget camera in his phone after fund exhausted from buying iphone and churns out worst ever film due to poor video quality.

 

[upgrade_1977]

http/photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/iphone-slr-mount/

Stock iPhone? Probably not.
They actually probably used 20 iPhones in a special mount and edited the footage together. Apple probably paid them to do it, and they are probably only using the footage in this trailer, not the actual movie.

If it does make it into final production, then I want to say "thanks apple"..... Thanks for giving me another reason to hate you.. Not only making computers and phones a pain to use, but now also lowering visual qaulity on movies to....thanks

 

[eddieroolz]

Why anyone would use iPhone4S for this purpose, I don't know. N8 is much more flexible.

 

[Guest]

Update – As it turns out, Seamus McGarvey was misquoted and he did not actually use the iPhone 4S to shoot some scenes of The Avengers movie. He was simply talking about the range of new equipment that we have access to nowadays. Here’s his quote given to The Hollywood Reporter:

“I was talking about how up and coming film makers have access to a whole range of new technologies which expand our options as filmmakers. I mentioned that the iPhone and the Canon 5d Mk2 were devices currently used on many Hollywood productions. I used the Canon on some shots on Marvel’s The Avengers movie,” he stated to THR. “Unfortunately, this was edited to read that I shot some of the film with the iPhone. This is not true.”

From - http/www.ubergizmo.com/2011/10/the-avengers-movie-features-shots-from-the-iphone-4s/