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How to shoot a music video
By JBC on 26 June 2009
LONDON, England – New lessons were learned in shooting and directing music videos recently when the video for the Noisettes new single ‘Saturday Night’ was shot using only Nokia devices. 64 Nokia N95 8GBs were attached to metal arms to create “The Transformer”, a multi-eyed video camera which captured much of the footage. 70 fans were also armed with Nokia devices to help capture the scenic stuff.
The video was shot to celebrate the launch of the 5800 Comes with Music on Orange and took place in a disused swimming pool in London’s Hackney. Both Nokia N95 8GBs and Nokia 5800s were used in the video. It was the first time a UK music act has used only mobile devices to shoot a music video.
Sadly we don’t have a sneaky preview of the video as it isn’t due to be released until September. I suspect it’ll take that long just to sift through the footage recorded by over 100 devices. Neither do we know how many memory cards were used, though that would be interesting!
Let us know in the comments below if you’ve heard or seen of any other interesting and curious ways mobile cameras have been used.
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Tags | 5800 xpressmusic, Comes with music, n95 8gb, nokia 5800, Nokia Comes with Music, Nokia N95 8GB
June 26th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Oh.. There must be a small error on this article (I guess, anyone?). It reads here “Neither do we know how many memory cards were used, though that would be interesting!”, well a Nokia N95 8GB doesn’t use a memory card right? So how come a number of memory cards should be expected to have been used? I’m just puzzled…
But nice idea to use a mobile phone to record a music video though. I wonder how the results would stack up against most non-mobile-phone-created music videos. Guess it will still be good as the Nokia N95 8GB is good and is capable of producing very nice video output. But I shall say that a wee bit of video editing can’t be avoided on producing a music video.
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June 29th, 2009 at 11:06 am
@Rex_1213 – good point – what we meant to say was how much memory was used, rather than memory cards. I suspect memory cards will have been plentiful as even thought the N95 8GB has plenty of storage, the 5800 still takes memory cards (they were used too).
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June 30th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Have been looking at some off the pictures of this machine on other sites, who designed and made it? As it looks like a hell of thing to come up with?
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July 2nd, 2009 at 1:42 am
Why doesn’t Nokia name its awesome phones though??
http://smashgods.com/2009/07/01/ones-and-zeros-why-doesnt-nokia-name-its-phones/
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