After more than fifty years of career, the prestigious director Steven Spielberg has directed and recorded his first music video. A music video that, in addition to being your first entry in this genre, has another curious detail: Spielberg recorded it with his iPhone.
The versatility of the iPhone as a video camera
Although shortly after its release, we have already seen the prolific director using an iPhone while filming an episode of Indiana Jonesthis appears to be the first time, to our knowledge, that Spielberg has used it as a camera for filming.
After initial doubts as to whether it is an iPhone or a “phone”, as the singer tweets, Italian newspaper La Stampa confirms the use of an Apple device. This is how Spielberg recorded the video called Cannibal, by Marcus Mumford. A video that was shot in a continuous shooting format and that left such curious images like the one below.
In the right hands, the iPhone can create works of art
Steven Spielberg with Kate Capshaw, actress and director’s wife, pulling the chair he’s sitting in filming with the iPhone. An image we extract singer’s tweet and it reminds us that iPhones, even models from a few years ago like the iPhone 7, can be great cameras for photos and videos. The video was shot on July 3, 2022, without much preparation, in a high school gymnasium in New York.
It is clear that the versatility of the iPhone when it comes to producing videos is more than remarkable. It doesn’t even reach the quality of the most professional film cameras, cameras that can cost tens of thousands of dollars, but its small size allows you to record in another way. We’ve seen this many times with Apple’s fun Shot on iPhone campaigns and Spielberg reminds us of it today.
