Mixed Reactions Trail Smartphone Inclusion In Film Industry

The resolve to include smartphones in the film industry has attracted mixed feelings among filmmakers, who described it as another boost to the industry’s advancement into global prominence.

The stakeholders, however, warned that total reliance on smartphone use may not guarantee sustainability.

They agreed that smartphones must have proper backups to preserve their jobs “since most smartphones can disappoint or get deleted, unlike the use of cameras in film-making.

The Alado of Ado–Awaye, Oba Ademola Olugbile Folakanmi, counselled filmmakers to strive to use both smartphones and cameras because each has its own advantage.

On her part, the National President of the Association of Movie Producers of Nigeria (AMP), Dr Queen Blessing Ebigieson, enumerated the advantages of cameras in film-making.

According to Ebigieson, “It depends on the audience you have in mind when producing a film. With cameras, long-range filming can be recorded. However, smartphones can be used for short-distance recordings because they can capture many participants.

“You will actually need adequate backups for your materials. Though both can have memory for backups, each one has its own advantage.”

On his own part, one of the film producers, Tolulope Odebunmi, said smartphones cannot replace the use of cameras, but it is to complement cameras.

According to Odebunmi, “We are advancing the use of smartphones because, with smartphones, you can capture more participants at very tight corners, recordings that one will not be able to achieve with a camera.”