Director Joe Wright
brings imagination to
life #withGalaxy
You don’t need a professional video camera to make your cinematography dream a reality.


Today, anyone can be a filmmaker, and If you have a story to tell, you’re already halfway there. Now almost anyone with a Galaxy smartphone can create high-quality cinematic videos — not just pros with Hollywood equipment. To show you how it’s done, we teamed up with renowned director Joe Wright (Darkest Hour, Pride & Prejudice, and Atonement) to shoot his new short film, Princess & Peppernose, with Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G.¹ From capturing low-light shots to creating atmospheric effects, here’s how his smartphone helped Wright bring his passion project to life #withGalaxy.


This is a behind-the-scenes video for director Joe Wright’s new short film, Princess & Peppernose, captured #withGalaxy S21 Ultra 5G. It starts with a view of a castle from the outside. The camera follows Joe Wright walking through the castle, with crew members working on set. The crew films actors wearing masks and running with flashlights in the forest. The crew moves with the cast and films with a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G phone. There's a silhouette of a woman puppet crying and looking at the moon as she fades away. Next is footage of the crew filming silhouettes of birds flying. A title card reads, "Princess & Peppernose: Behind the Scenes." Footage shows how two scenes were filmed. The first scene shows people running outside a castle at night with a drone flying above them, followed by the resulting footage filmed on a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. A title card reads, "Joe Wright | Director." The next scene follows crew members filming and running in the castle, followed by the resulting footage. We see a young woman in a kitchen baking and kneading dough, with Joe Wright and the crew filming with a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in a stabilizer. A title card reads, "Seamus McGarvey, Director of Photography." We see the crew filming in the castle and Seamus McGarvey looks at the screen of a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. Cut to the cast dancing, running and filming as a woman films them using a stabilizer with a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G attached to it. We see a crew member filming dancers close-up, then cast members performing with the puppet. Cut to Joe Wright filming a close-up with a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G, then footage of recording on a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. Cut to a young woman pulling cookies out of the oven, then pulling back a towel to reveal the puppet. We see a close-up of the puppet on the tray. Cut to a nighttime outdoor forest scene being filmed on a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. A Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in a stabilizer on set, recording the silhouette of a woman walking towards the screen. Cut to a young woman in low light walking toward the camera and looking directly into the camera. We see the crew on set, setting up a scene with a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in a stabilizer. Joe Wright stands next to a woman wearing a gold dress who is being filmed with a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. A man dressed in silver armor stands in front of a green screen being filmed by a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. Cut to a young woman and man getting onto a motorcycle with a sidecar in front of a green screen. Then we see a man looking at a woman painted in gold to look like a statue. Cut to the camera moving around the cast and crew on set at night, capturing the scene in 360 degrees. We see the cast rehearsing various scenes with the young woman and the puppet. The king and young woman walk hand in hand as the crew moves with them, filming them with a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. Footage of the king and young woman walking into the castle with people singing behind them. Joe Wright stands up from his director’s chair. Footage of the cast singing and celebrating as confetti rains down and a camera flash goes off. Fades to black. Text on screen says, "Filmed #withGalaxy S21 Ultra." It is followed by the Samsung logo.
The story behind
the film
Wright's parents founded and ran the first dedicated puppet theatre in the UK. As he constructed his “strange and possibly quite twisted fairy tale,” Wright was inspired by that personal history to include puppets and musical acts into it. "I thought this was the perfect opportunity to kind of return to those roots and explore what that might be like,” he says.


Agile, on-the-go
filmmaking
Unlike the big budget productions Wright is used to, there wasn’t a lot of waiting around for the camera crew to get reset on the Princess & Peppernose set. “What surprised me the most was how immediate, fast and direct this device allows you to get right in there and be very present with the characters and the story,” Wright says. The Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G doesn’t require hours to set up and allows for spontaneous camera movements because it's lighter than a traditional Hollywood rig. “You’re not hanging around [waiting] for the camera to be ready,” Wright says. “It’s there, you pick it up and you shoot.”


Amplifying low-light
moments
Shooting with Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G has a lot of advantages, but one of the biggest is the camera’s extraordinary ability to capture low-light shots. With most of Princess & Peppernose shot at night with minimal light sources, the lens was an important tool for Wright and his cinematography team. “The quality of the lens is really crisp,” director of photography Seamus McGarvey says. “This phone really shone in its low-light capability.”
Effortless shot variations
Having never used puppets in his past films, Wright wanted to push his imagination with Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. His cinematographer, Seamus McGarvey, embraced the wider lens to get a very specific look and feel, explaining, “It lent the film a real hallucinatory quality.” The 108MP wide-angle camera³ lens not only helped them shoot wide-angle shots, but close-ups and extended moving shots as well. “There’s a dynamic, kinetic aesthetic which is afforded by the Galaxy phone,” Wright says.


Achieving a ghostly air
Who says you need professional video equipment to make smooth, theater-quality films? With the Super Steady feature⁴ — Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G’s built-in stabilizer — Wright and his cinematography team moved freely while shooting to achieve the floating “ghostly air” they envisioned.
Watch the trailer for
"Princess & Peppernose"


Captured with Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G
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Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G


- 1Requires optimal 5G network connection, available in select markets. Check with your carrier for availability and details. Download and streaming speeds may vary based on content provider, server connection and other factors.
- 2When compared to previous S series devices.
- 3Maximum image cropping is subject to display resolution and the original image size.
- ⁴Super Steady video is limited to 1080p resolution at 30fps.
- ⁵Super Smooth 60fps Video delivers a dynamic frame rate that automatically adjusts up to 60fps for super-smooth video, depending on lighting conditions or movements from the subject.
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