“If you think this is cool, just wait ’til you see how far I can get on Angry Birds.”
In another example of how the iPad is being used differently than its original intent as a couch surfing, media consumption tablet, the director of I Am Number Four says he used the device on set in many ways. DJ Caruso explained in an interview at an Apple store in New York City how the iPad helped him with lighting control, script and storyboard writing.
David Lee, our gaffer, and I got ours first,” Caruso told us. “I got it, I don’t want to say as a toy, but then I realized about a week into prep that my storyboards were coming on it, my previs was on it, my script was on it, I don’t carry my script anymore. I started getting emails from two of my storyboard artists who work in Los Angeles and I have this application where I can mark up the boards — I’m a terrible drawer — and I can mark up the boards and send them back. It just became this amazing production tool.”
The iPad actually helped create a major component of the movie. Pettyfer’s character John Smith, an alien, discovers during the film he has several supernatural powers. One of those powers is that he can control light through his hands. During filming, Alex wore a flashlight-like contraption wired up through his jacket and it was activated… by an iPad off screen.
Caruso found other practical uses to help make the movie with using an iPad app to find good locations to shoot certain scenes.
‘We shot a scene towards the end of this movie at this chruch out in the middle of the farmlands the other day and we were out there on location and I took my suntracker and it told me at what time the sun would be [in the sky] so I planned everything around where the sun would be at that location – it gives you a satellite image. By the way, that app cost 99 cents. It was in the photography section… I just happened to be in there.”
The iPad made its way into a scene in the film but it was later cut from the final release. I Am Number Four is now playing in theaters.
iPad News Via: tuaw.com
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