The Center of the Action: Freddie’s GALAXY SII

The man, the myth, the uber-geek filmmaker Freddie Wong aka freddiew, has made such classic short-film like Arcade Dominator, Future First Person Shooter and Medal of Honor Cat, all of which undoubtedly have a special place in our hearts.

Like all great directors, freddiew has a number of tools in his filmmaking arsenal.  On top of his passion for games of all shapes and colors, freddiew has utilized the powerful camera and recording abilities of the Samsung GALAXY SII to film parts of his not-quite-latest short film, Gamer Commute. Don’t believe us?

There.  We weren’t lying.  For the project freddiew needed a camera that was small, lightweight and powerful enough to capture the high quality footage needed.  Utilizing the GALAXY SII’s 1080p high definition video recording power, freddiew propped the SII on top of his car with a tripod to get the shots he needed for the video.

Gamer Commute features number of references to popular video games as freddiew makes his everyday commute to work, which involves stealing a car, shooting indiscriminately into the air and other aspects of your daily drive to work.  Watch the video below.

Gamer Commute

You can also watch the making-of, where you can watch freddiew plan to mount the GALAXY SII on a mini-helicopter, fail and just tape it to his car.

Behind the scenes

But freddiew isn’t the only one using Samsung phones to make movies.  In Korea, reknown actors and directors have come together and used the GALAXY Note for the Cine Note project.  Read more about it here.