“10 Hollywood Apps You Must Have”
TheWrap.com looks at “10 Hollywood Apps You Must Have:
1. Movie?Slate ($9.99). While it has no hierarchy, this list, like every shot in every film, has to start somewhere — and a slate seems the logical choice. Indeed, Movie?Slate is exactly what you expect — a digital slate and clapper board.
2. Actor’s App ($0.99). A necessary piece of Tinseltown tech to help those waiters prepare for the next casting call. Providing scenes to practice and add to your repertoire, it also helps organize your schedule.
3. Movie Tweets (Free). They say everyone’s a critic and with this social networking based app, everyone is a 140 character 21st century Pauline Kael. With the app’s four main feeds — Top 10 Box Office, Coming Soon, In Theaters and the Fandango Five — you can get the buzz before you buy your ticket.
4. Artemis Director’s Viewfinder ($29.99). According to Laura Michalchyshyn, a GM at Discovery, this director’s viewfinder is “currently being used by the directors and cinematographers of ’30 Rock’ and ‘Nurse Jackie,” to name a few.
5. Action Log Pro ($29.99). Moviemaking is almost as much about organization as it is inspiration and perspiration. If you want to nail that aspect of the process, Action Log culls together clips, organizes reel names and time codes on up to 25 separate recording devices — and then it emails those clips to editors and their staff for immediate ingestion, with or with self created hard copy logs, on Avid and Final Cut Pro.
6. SketchBook MobileX (Free). Developer AutoDesk goes straight for the breakfast meeting juggler by bragging that SketchBook MobileX allows you to “capture your ideas as napkin sketches or produce artwork on-the-go.
7. Fandango (Free). Wanna know what’s playing where, when and can you get a ticket? Wanna know what a flick’s fan rating is, what theater has what amenities, what’s coming out and what the trailer is?
8. Hitchcock ($19.99). The App calls itself a “mobile storyboard and pre-visualization composer.” Developers Cinemek nailed the tech but need to work on their bottom-line pitch — Hitchcock marvelously brings conceptualized sound and vision together with real locations, scenarios and rewrites in minutes.
9. Helios Sun Position Calculator ($29.99). It does just what it says, with a built-in database of 30,000 locations worldwide and using algorithms from the National Renewable Energy Lab and National Geophysical Data Center.
10. HAL 9000 (Free). Maybe you need some inspiration from the Maestro. Based on the corrupted computer from Kubrick’s legendary “2001:A Space Odyssey,” it gives you a line from the film every time you gently touch its glowing red orb.
Great way to start out the New Year — give your iPhone (and you) a little gift.
Which ones interest you?
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