A new short film shot on iPhone 11 Pro gives perhaps the best insight yet into what a professional filmmaker can do with nothing more than an iPhone.
There’s no shortage of films and ads proclaiming they were ‘shot on iPhone,’ but most have cheated by using cinematography lenses and stabilization kit costing many times the price of the phone.
We now have a more realistic test thanks to filmmaker Rian Johnson – whose work includes Star Wars: The Last Jedi – creating a short film shot using only the iPhone 11 Pro, handheld, with just its built-in lenses…
CNET issued the same challenge to both Johnson and George Nolfi, who wrote Ocean’s 12 and The Bourne Ultimatum.
That doesn’t mean the director has any immediate plans to switch cameras for his professional work.
To test that notion, Apple gave the iPhone 11 Pro to Rian Johnson […] and George Nolfi.
Johnson created Paris 9/19, a fun and gorgeous travel short made up of mesmerizing shots of Paris set to lively piano music. You can watch it below.
He did, however, find it a liberating experience.
Nofi created a comedy short, but for some reason, it is currently password-protected on Vimeo.
Check out Johnson’s short below, which starts out at a frenetic pace before slowing.
“It was a lot of fun shooting a project on a phone knowing I had three lenses to choose from,” said Nolfi. “It felt like a hybrid production, possessing the advantages of a phone yet with some of the key creative tools of traditional studio filmmaking.”
