June 22, 2007
Italians shoot film with camera phone
According to the AP, Italian directors have completed a 93-minute documentary movie called “New Love Meetings" filmed entirely with a Nokia N90 called “New Love Meetings".
"The movie mostly features close-ups, and the image, while overall clear, is slightly shaky. Directors said Tuesday that no post-production manipulation was made on the image.
Although no professional lightening was needed, a pocket flashlight was used at times, said Milan-based Barbara Seghezzi, the other director of the movie.
The approach offers the advantage of being intimate, leading people to open up a little more easily, directors say. In a documentary about love and eroticism, that doesn’t hurt. For two months last year, the directors interviewed some 700 people across Italy, at bars, open markets, on the beach. About 100 of them ended up in the movie.
... The directors’ idea was to do a modern version of the 1965 documentary “Love Meetings” by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the famed film director and writer found beaten to death 30 years ago. "
Related:
-- Feature Film Shot Entirely on Cellphone Cameras The world’s first full-length movie to be shot entirely on cellphones wrapped up in Johannesburg in February 2006. The 35mm feature film, entitled SMS Sugar Man was shot with cameraphones.
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