iPhone 4 film – “Apple of My Eye” from Michael Koerbel on Vimeo.
Which is quite interesting because it has “making of” etc – all those little dollys and adaptations. There’s this shift happening in that the equipment has become a whole lot lighter – but this creates problems of its own. Here for example is my first attempt at using a skateboard for a dolly
In some ways it went rather well. In others…. not so much.
So… there’s all this talk about a paradigm-shift with regards making movies… because of the new tech. Maybe, but I think people are still thinking along the same tracks in terms of what… movies are “about”. The way they should look… what the people in them should do. I’d quite like to see a change in that maybe.
Youtube has created whole new genres of this – people talking to the blue-dot. Talking to their inner-audience… and christ alive, how fucking boring is that. It makes up a major part of the culture though – and I think it’s fairly unlikely that this won’t be the starting point of most new film-makers a generation down the line. I think there might be a subtle shift in the blue-dot scenario though – if we get to a point where the defacto phone interface is a videophone – talking to the blue dot will feel like talking to no-one. Talking to a dictaphone and then publishing that. I think it will feel weird. Mind you, quite a lot of the stuff on youtube is conversational already – so maybe not.
So um… in a nutshell, although there’s been a revolution (that really hasn’t started yet) in distribution – or “piracy” as the legacy-industries call it… and another breaking in cheapness of gear… I’d like to see something more radical again – a shift in the way stories are told.
And to do that – I think we need to ask ourselves/reinvent/rediscover/change why stories are told. Why are we doing this?
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