The Hitchcock iPhone App: The Story(board) of My Life
Nov 10th, 2009 by Guest Contributor
As an aspiring filmmaker/technophile, I have fantasized about wonderful iPhone apps that could help me accomplish whatever wild-hair idea I dreamt up from week to week. There are plenty of movie slate apps available, useful during film production, but I’ve been searching for an app to facilitate the preproduction brain storming stages.
Enter the Hitchcock app, released by Cinemek. It’s one of the priciest apps yet at $19.99, but it is certainly one of the most useful. It melds many of the existing iPhone assets to make one intuitive piece of software.
For people like me, drawing storyboards usually ends in snot bubbles, tears, and depression! Most of my time is spent getting a single frame to look like it does in my head, a painstaking waste of time and resources. Storyboarding is one of the most important steps to translating an idea into a vision, and the Hitchcock app spares LOTS of heartaches by allowing users to build storyboards shot by shot by using photos you’ve already snapped, or new ones taken through the iPhone.
Users can set the duration of any given shot. Zooms, pans, and tilting are easily adjustable. Need actors? Add changeable stand-in male and female silhouettes with a few button presses! Users can even add text as dialogue or to better explain the shot. If you would rather narrate the storyboard, the app allows for audio recording as well. It’s a comprehensive app for sure with all these great tools to play with!
Users can also easily upload their developed storyboards as PDFs to the web and send links to friends for downloading. One would figure this app loads and runs slowly, creating lots of big files. It does neither. It’s really an amazing piece of software. For filmmakers, it’s a must-have. For iPhone app aficionados, it’s a great buy.
Yubin Wadesworth
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Yubin Wadesworth is iApplicate’s producer and his love for the iPhone is second to none!
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