Apple's Latest 'Shot on iPhone' Video Reflects on Life of 17-Year-Old Athlete From American Samoa

[MacRumors]

Apple has shared a new "Shot on iPhone" video on its YouTube channel that presents a portrait of Eddie Siaumau, a 17-year-old athlete from American Samoa who has just accepted a full-ride scholarship to a NCAA Division I university.

The small island of American Samoa, nicknamed "Football Island," is a U.S. territory in the South Pacific Ocean that reportedly produces athletes who are around 56 times more likely to play in the NFL than Americans from anywhere else, a stat that Apple cites in the description of the video.

Apple says the video is shot on an iPhone XS with the aid of a DJI Osmo Mobile 2 smartphone gimbal, the FiLMiC Pro app, and a few other accessories. The video is directed by Steven Counts and produced by Heather Zara.

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[Rob_2811]

Great that, more of this please Apple.

 

[CrystalQuest76]

Nicely done. What app was used for the video editing?

 

[Rob_2811]

Nicely done. What app was used for the video editing?

Filmic Pro. Great App.

 

[Aston441]

Less feel good social stuff please.

More better products please.

 

[Rob_2811]

Less feel good social stuff please.

More better products please.

Its on their Youtube channel do you want the guy who uploads the videos hard at work on the new iPhone instead

 

[BruceEBonus]

Less feel good social stuff please.

More better products please.

True.

When it comes to hyping second-best tech ... Apple are at the forefront of the competition!

 

[macfacts]

Why don't my ad blockers block this?

 

[kingofwale]

what's the point of this?? Do people actually see those and go... Well, i'm going to spend 1500 dollars on that phone now.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

what's the point of this?? Do people actually see those and go... Well, i'm going to spend 1500 dollars on that phone now.

By that logic, the think different ads would be a failure as well. Who looks at a picture of Einstein and says, I'm going to buy a Mac? These ads are about brand image and linking emotions with a product. In this case its most probably about how ubiquitous the iPhone is and how it's used by a variety of interesting people.

 

[Rob_2811]

By that logic, the think different ads would be a failure as well. Who looks at a picture of Einstein and says, I'm going to buy a Mac? These ads are about brand image and linking emotions with a product. In this case its most probably about how ubiquitous the iPhone is and how it's used by a variety of interesting people.

Exactly its brand advertising for the most part. These video do showcase what the cameras are capable of now though.

 

[mi7chy]

Any plans to address the lens reflection?

 

[notabadname]

Less feel good social stuff please.

More better products please.

Featuring what you can do on that better product . . . . very appropriate.

 

[AngerDanger]

Its on their Youtube channel do you want the guy who uploads the videos hard at work on the new iPhone instead

There are a lot of vocal MacRumors readers who are discontent with Apple and see every mention of the company as an opportunity to express that discontent. On a site called MacRumors, there are many mentions of Apple, so we get a lot of these vaguely-related comments.

Hell, if a photo of Tim Cook eating a turkey sandwich started making rounds, we'd get people asking why he isn't eating a sandwich filled with improved Macintosh hardware instead. And then I'd probably make a stupid GIF…

 

[ikir]

Impressive. Really.

 

[smoking monkey]

True.

When it comes to hyping second-best tech ... Apple are at the forefront of the competition!

Actually the video camera and sound recording on the XS series phones are the best. Not sure if you're thinking the pixel 3 is the best, but that phone has very average video recording capabilities.

 

[Futhark]

Filmic Pro. Great App.

Filmic Pro was used to shoot the video not edit it.

 

[citysnaps]

I liked the video and story. But thought the cuts were a little too frequent and short.

 

[pedzsan]

Any plans to address the lens reflection?

I'm confused. If she is a photographer, she should know that its internal reflections. It could easily be that she has some type of protective lens on top. It isn't really the distance from the lens (when she plays with the UV filter) but the quality of the glass of the filter.

It might be curious if everyone is seeing this issue but the presentation, right now, feels much more like CNN fake news than an actual problem.

I just toyed with my iPhone XS Max and noticed that the other thing it could easily be is she is filming the screen. The screen could be causing much of the reflection. It is on my phone. That's not a defect. Take some video (or photos) and see if they have the same reflections. With my phone, they do not.

 

[farkingdom]

So the iPhone is sea-waterproof based on this video?

 

[ryanwarsaw]

what's the point of this?? Do people actually see those and go... Well, i'm going to spend 1500 dollars on that phone now.

It makes me feel better about myself then the latest Gillette ads.

 

[mrow]

Any plans to address the lens reflection?

Smart move posting this here. The MacRumors comments section of a post about one of their ads is the first place Apple looks for bug reports.

 

[mozumder]

Man that's a lot of bland, generic, unemotional B-roll footage...

Apple really needs to hire better directors to show off their cameras, by at least putting together a story.

 

[racerhomie]

True.

When it comes to hyping second-best tech ... Apple are at the forefront of the competition!

Apple is its own competition. Very few people switch from iOS or MacOS . So Apple should worry about it’s older devices.

 

[rwright]

Any plans to address the lens reflection?

It's the lens hardware creating that annoying green/blue dot when shooting into a light source (the sun, in this case). The fix would be in new hardware. Maybe the 2019 iPhone? The iPhone does a pretty amazing job with 4K video but it does have its limitations.