Music video shot with only an iPad 2
Take a musician, a film company and four iPad 2s to a rocking dance party, and you have all the ingredients for an impressive indie music video. Filmed by Remedy Films, this 5-minute music video for the song "Need" by Eddy shows what is possible with the iPad 2 and some talent.
According to Chase Andrews of Remedy Films, the music video required about 25 hours of work. The group waited in line 8 hours to purchase the iPads, spent 5 hours filming and almost 12 hours editing. The crew treated the iPads as professional cameras by attaching one to a steadicam rig, one to a Cineslider and one to a handheld rig. The fourth and final iPad was held by the singer herself and makes its cameo appearance in a few parts of the video.
The music video self-admittedly should have been shot under better lighting conditions, but the night-time party theme matched the song, and the end product still turned out very good, despite the limitations of the iPad's camera. Check out the music video for yourself after the break, and let us know what you think in the comments.
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All this witless mediocrity for the sake of being first.
Is anyone suprised shooting on an iPad2 didn't polish this turd of an excuse for a music video into pure gold?
Like leaning up against someone else's 1969 Mustang in the parking lot as the chicks walk by; Apple products bring out the worst cases of "cool by association".
It's better than "friday" for sure.
March 17 2011 at 2:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy should it be news that iPad 2 shoots video? It has a videocamera no? If they could shoot that vid with iPad 1 I'd be impressed though. Everyone was all "what do you need a camera for on a tablet" back then and now it's "ZOMG it can shoot videoclips!!!". I pity the poor iPads that went through this ordeal (video + audio) to spew this utter hipsterrific nonsense.
March 17 2011 at 5:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAll you haters out there:
I seem to recall a good deal of similar yammerin by the old fogies of the day when Pink Floyd started getting some attention...
Don't be a fogey.
seriously?
you aren't even trying to compare that complete pop crap to pink floyd are you?
I detect someone from the production.
I couldn't even watch for more than 30 secs, the whole thing was just so bad and ill conceived. I've also heard better music from scratching fingernails on a chalkboard.
Think Apple should sue them for damaging it's good name.
Where's the damage. It's not a reflective on Apple that the music and story are lame. They are probably happy that someone did anything to show that the cameras really aren't as suck as it seems when you look at the specs and see that they are like 1 MP equivalents
This and that story about the guy who caught a gas main explosion with his iphone, edited it on his ipad with that imovie app and it was picked up by CNN just add to the positive press for Apple
Well, this proves that a quality of a video/photo (not quality in terms of bytes, but quality of the content itself), lies on the user. Photographers and videographers of the past use much less capable hardware than the iPad 2's cameras, yet the content are still priceless.
March 17 2011 at 4:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYet another dull publicity stunt .. hope this was it with the XYZ-filmed-with-an-iPad stories.
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Not until someone famous does it. Ooooo I'm gonna go film "I'm an F-18, bro" starring Charlie Sheen. A short documentary using only iPads, iPhones and iPods. I'll be famous and there will be a post about Charlie Sheen starring in an iPad movie lol.
March 17 2011 at 9:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI think I would be ok with Chuck doing it ... that would be a WINNING video, duh!
*insert random nervous twitch*
Probably has better chance getting that on TMZ than TUAW though.
T.
Now, I don't have an iPad 2, but if the cameras in there are like the ones in the iPod and iPhone, she should be holding that iPad in landscape to get 720p video. Otherwise she'll end up with 720p video, but flipped on it's side so it's vertical/portrait. Doesn't look good as a finished product, unless it's cropped, but then it loses some of the quality.
And what "limitations" are you talking about on the iPad camera? Still pictures are less than one megapixel, yes, but for video, which they are shooting here, it's HD video. Doesn't seem like a limitation holding them back to me...
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