The future of video cameras

Nokia just signed a deal with Spike Lee to do a short film for cell phones. The idea behind the film is to have Lee use some user-generated content that has been shot on cell phones, and then to put together a film that has three 5-minute parts. In talking about the project Lee said “Within five years, new movies will be made with devices like these.”

Do you think that’s actually the case? Sure movies are starting to skew more digital than film. The release of the RED camera is adding a whole new level of quality to digital video and making it possible to shoot some pretty amazing stuff digitally….but cell phones in 5 years? Really? Truth be told I was shocked and amazed Spike Lee signed up for this project in the first place, much less made a comment like that about it.

While I can see mass online quality videos being shot with cell phones in 2013 (probably MUCH better than what we would classify as web quality now) I can’t imagine seeing a Blockbuster shot on a video camera from a cell phone. Can you?