“From Pocket to Projector: Discover How Jamie Grefe Filmed Two Movies on His Phone!”
Ashley
Do you put it on a tripod? Do you put it on a little handheld gimbal to make a little steady cam thing? Just what does that look like?
Jamie Grefe
Yeah, I used to, I mean, I have like a, I don’t know, a gimbal. Yeah, I have a gimbal, but I don’t use it. I’m very steady or I’ll place it. I like, I like certain angles, you know, it depends on the angle. I’ll put, you know, sometimes I’m setting it on the floor. Sometimes I’m, I’m up, but, you know, I think the main thing that a lot of screenwriters need to think about is, you know, do you exercise, get your biceps in order, get your triceps in order, hold the camera steady, focus on it’s kind of a joke, but hold the camera steady and get the shot that you need to get, hold the camera steady and get the shot that you need to get. Now, of course I’m not working with a huge budget and we can talk about the love movies because those were done at a slightly elevated level, but for these movies that I shot on my phone, I mean, look, Ashley, you can go on YouTube. You can go on all these places. People are making movies. People are making content with phones every day. Like it’s just, that’s where we’re at right now. I mean, look at Blair, which project, look at all of these old school movies that were shot with found footage and just, you know, they’re so shaky that makes you want to vomit. I mean, I’m actually composing shots that I think look really good. Like I’ll set up the shot that it looks good and then I’ll hit it and I’ll just hold it and I know I get it. And I think, I don’t know if everybody can do that. I’m sure they can, but I’m able to know, did I get that shot? Was that did that look how I wanted it to look? Did it come off the way I wanted it to come off? Now, of course, it helps when you don’t have a script.
