One of South Korea's famous directors for movie,Park Chan-wook.The films his shoots including "Old Boy","Mother" and "Thirst".For "Oldboy" and "Thirst",both which won festival prizes at the Cannes Film Festival in year 2003 and 2009.Recently,he shot a 30 minutes horror film named "Paranmanjang"(Korean for “Ups and Downs) with iPhone 4 only.
The movie cost $130,000 to make and was funded by Park and Korea Telecom, South Korea's biggest carrier.Last year,Korean Telecom's also sponsored the iPhone 4 short Film Festival from 12 famous local directors.
Actually,"Paranmanjang" shot by two main iPhones and some minor contributions from various staffs smartphones.The movie took 80 people helps and completed in 10 days and will be shown in 10 South Korean theaters during the month of January."Paranmanjang" is about a fisherman who catches a woman's dead body on his hook.He feels faint and awakens to find himself living through the eyes of the woman.
"New technology always offers wonders and useful features.Texting them is part of the amusement,It was a new experience compared with making a meticulously planned movie.Even a casual and spontaneous shot delivered a surprise."Park said in the interview.
"From hunting for a film location, shooting auditions, to doing a documentary on the filming process, everything was shot with the iPhone 4," Park told reporters at the press screening last night, according to the Wall Street Journal. "We went through all the same film-making processes except that the camera was small."
The quality of the cinematography is quite good,except for a little shakiness in the beginning. And the fact that the screen is coarse works to the film’s advantage, especially on the night scenes given its life-and-death theme.
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