Pamela Anderson Movie Shot With a Smartphone
But she's only in it for a few seconds. There's Dev Patel of Slumdog Millionaire fame for the entire thing, though!
A while back Nokia ran a contest offering one lucky guy or gal the chance to star in a movie with Pamela Anderson. Also up for grabs was the chance to star in a short with Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass). It's not clear if this video is the result of that contest, or if Nokia didn't get enough entrants and so lumped the two videos together, but the company has just released a short movie titled 'The Commute' which stars Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel, Charles Dance, Pam and Ed Westwick.
Shot entirely on a Nokia N8, the video runs just under eight minutes in length and is pretty impressive when you consider it was shot with a phone. As you can see from the video, the 12-megapixel, 720p camera on the N8 fares better outside than in, but really, that's a common issue for smartphone cameras. Check out the video below and be sure to le us know what you think (and whether or not Pam has still got it), below.
Just goes to show that you don't need expensive equipment to make a great movie.
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Phone advertisement article.
...at least that's not an iPhone.
But everything was in his head, & how can that be good advertisement for Nokia!? ;-)
Is Symbian^3 really that bad? I wish Tom's would do a proper review or group test of the current mobile OSs that are available... Android (2.1 and 2.2), Symbian^3, Windows Phone 7 and although I know it is available on an iPhone... but that OS as well.
Quite impressed with the quality, actually. Reminds me of a Japanese girl band filming their music video in 1080p using just a SH-07B.
Let's hope this can silence the Android/iPhone/etc. naysayers.
You mean to say "whether Pam's still got THEM or not"
... a new device to go to movies and make screeners for torrents...
... a new device to go to movies and make screeners for torrents...
... oplā... then they will have GPS tag...
that was a badass movie for being filmed on such a badass camera phone.
Impressive.
that was great! i'd like to see more news like this, not constantly about the iPhone or whatever Steve Jobs considers good or not!
Too bad pam didn't have 720p recording ability when she made her home video AMIRITE?
And Im sure the 4 people that actually have a Nokia N8 appreciate this..Next phone I upgrade to will have 1080p video and 14 mp cam quality with a dual core cpu and 4.5 inch screen and be 1/4 inch thick or less.
Too bad pam didn't have 720p recording ability when she made her home video AMIRITE?
You are right !
amazing a phone can do this.
news header should have read "Dev Patel Movie Shot With A Smartphone"
but Pam would draw more readers
That car is a electric TESLA. They dubbed engine noises onto the film to make it seem "bad ass". Sad.
Spoiler alert.
But everything was in his head, & how can that be good advertisement for Nokia!? ;-)
Spoilder alert
Spoiler alert.
That car is not a Telsa, it's a Lotus EVORA. And it really does sound like that. Maybe do some research before trying to bash something Nokia did that iphone couldn't.
That car is a electric TESLA. They dubbed engine noises onto the film to make it seem "bad ass". Sad.
That car is not a Telsa, it's a Lotus EVORA. And it really does sound like that. Maybe do some research before trying to bash something Nokia did that iphone couldn't.
@5:32, it's a Lotus not a Tesla
N8 is the best camera phone.
It was shot with the phone but the quipment used to support the camera and audio equipment is worth at least $15,000
also the video underwent extensive color correction, whitebalance correction, noise reduction in scenes when the shadows were bought up, though the contrast problem could not be fixed.
What this shows is that you can make a decent film with a cellphone if you have $15,000 worth of other equipment and a good post production team who can perform the needed correction and special effects.
A student in my class has that phone, the video quality is much worst indoors than on the professionally made film. On the film you can see that they were using very bright directional lights to maintain the shadows and lowered the exposure on the camera to still make it look like a dimly lit hallway. thats why the shadows and highlights are exaggerated, the camera does not have the dynamic range to offer a smooth color and luminance.
So sure you can do a good film with a cellphone but it is not practical. the main difference between a $200 camera and a $200,000 camera is image quality and depth of field
the cameras we have in our phones are much better than the cameras we had in the 60's, but guess what, there are still many good movies from the 60's
the cameras does not make the movie, the crew makes the movie.
Have a 12 year old student shoot a video of a car chase and have a professional who has been filming for years do the same with the same phone and you will have 2 completely different videos.
Why would I in America by a Nokia phone? No droid? No WP7? No iOS. Who wants to drop down the cash for a 4th rate operating system.
When I first saw the title of this article, my first thought was "oh God, I think she's getting a bit for a sex tape".
it's amazing what video editing can do these days
I'm guessing this isn't the first "movie" she's been in that was shot with a smartphone.
but the bankers were cool xD
Well there goes seven minutes and 30 seconds of my life. Why is Tom's Guide calling this a Pam Anderson movie anyway? She was barely an extra.
Obviously just a paid advertisement, not really anything news worthy.
British cops eh?
That title is sooo misleading!