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How 'Resident Evil' Director Zach Cregger Uses His iPhone to Make Movies

Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak today shared an Apple TV video that offers a look at how "Resident Evil" director Zach Cregger uses an iPhone during filmmaking.

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Cregger said he uses his iPhone and the Cadrage app to plan out filming sequences ahead of time. He decides what shots to take, what lenses to use for each shot, and what's in each frame. He then prints out the images so the crew knows exactly what to do.

According to Cregger, he used this process for "Weapons" and "Barbarian," two movies that he wrote and directed. He said every scene in those films was planned with photos in advance.


"Everybody can make a movie with what's in your pocket," he said. "It's all right there."

"Resident Evil" is now available to rent or buy, including in the ‌Apple TV‌ app.

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5 days ago at 02:20 pm

"Everybody can make a movie with what's in your pocket," he said. "It's all right there."
Yes, but that doesn’t mean that everyone wants to watch them.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
5 days ago at 02:42 pm
Interesting. iPhones and Apple products are useful everywhere and iPhone cameras are good too.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
votdfak Avatar
5 days ago at 10:49 pm

I haven't watched a RE movie since Apocalypse which, in fact, was a cinematic apocalypse. Is this one terrible too?
Well I laughed my ass off in theatre, I cannot remember last time I had this much fun in the movies. People looking for something deep with RE are missing the point.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
fathergll Avatar
5 days ago at 02:33 pm
He's not saying he used an iPhone for the actual filming of his movies, he's saying he used an iPhone app to map out shot sequences(photoboard/location scouting) which is much more useful thing over making things more difficult by jerry rigging an iPhone to film a movie just so that you can get the headline "i filmed this on an iPhone"
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jb310 Avatar
3 days ago at 03:32 am

I like the genre and the older RE movies, but when I saw the trailer for this one, it just looked low rent and not entertaining at all. Am I wrong?
It's a little entertaining, but it's more of comedy pretending to be horror that just happens to be (supposedly) set in the Resident Evil universe.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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