Apple has commissioned well-known Korean director Park Chan-wook to create a brief movie as a part of its “Shot on iPhone” marketing campaign. Park, maybe finest identified for the motion thriller flick Oldboy, used an iPhone 13 Pro to shoot a 20-minute fantasy martial arts film entitled Life Is But a Dream, which the tech big has released on YouTube. 

The movie begins off with horror-like components after an undertaker digs up a grave to steal a coffin and awakens the ghost of a swordsman, who then awakens the ghost of a hero who fell after saving the undertaker’s village. After that, it turns into a mix of motion, romance, darkish comedy, dancing and pansori, a Korean style of musical storytelling. 

Apple has additionally launched a behind-the-scenes clip alongside the quick movie displaying Park and his crew utilizing an iPhone 13 Pro on gimbals and mounts for the shoot. The crew particularly praised the telephone’s means to shortly shift focus, blur the background and shoot in low gentle. In the behind-the-scenes footage launched alongside the movie, Park mentioned it is a story he is at all times needed to inform and that he did not have a particular digital camera in thoughts when he conceptualized it. 

You can watch the “making of” video beneath: