Our very own Jonny Eberle on the development and production of our newest short film, “The Closet” and our first attempt to make a film with an iPhone.
When I started making short films more than almost 15 years ago, a decent, mid-range consumer video camera was about the size of a brick and recorded either to miniDV tape or mini DVD, which was good for 60 minutes of recording. Tapes got chewed up during playback, DVDs got scratched, and in the general the process for making a film was tedious and technical.
In the time before YouTube, once you had finished your film — provided that you hadn’t lost footage to the magnetic tape gods — you had to connect to a tape deck to transfer your finished film to a format that could be easily shared, like VHS or DVD. Somewhere in a box, there’s a stack of old VHS tapes with handwritten labels documenting my early filmmaking efforts.
I bought my first digital camcorder when I was 18. It was a hot rod red Canon…
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