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A Free Way

Turning the mundane - a trip on a freeway - into the sublime. Courtesy of my iPhone camera, my son Milo, a piece of music I wrote and Premiere to edit with.

Milo had the idea to shoot traffic in slow-motion (hand held) with my old iPhone SE.

No plugins or digital effects were used in this video - just good old editing and split screens.

  • Miles Flanagan
    Director
  • Miles Flanagan
    Writer
  • Milo Bennet-Shephard
    Writer
  • Miles Flanagan
    Producer
  • Milo Bennet-Shephard
    Producer
  • Miles Flanagan
    Editing
  • Miles Flanagan
    Music
  • Milo Bennet-Shephard
    Photography
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    cell phone, music, video, mobile, phone, experimental
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 7 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 19, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Cell Phone
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Miles Flanagan

Film-maker Miles Flanagan is also a musician and composer. He established a small trip hop label in the UK before moving to the USA. He often writes his own music for many of his projects.

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Director Statement

I wanted to create a film that shows that even the most mundane of activities - driving in LA - can be transformed into something truly sublime, if looked at in a different way. And I wanted to elevate the ordinary without the use of any digital effects, using iPhone footage and editing in Premiere to my own music. The shape (both portrait and landscape) of the iPhone image inspired me to create the film as a series of smaller images - grouped together to become something else entirely - like moving stained glass. Thanks to my son Milo, for shooting some great footage in slow-motion on the iPhone that started the entire project.