Director Joe Wright
Brings Imagination to
Life #withGalaxy
You don’t have to have a professional video camera to make your cinematography dream a reality.


There are no limits to who can be a filmmaker. 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 to shoot his new short film, Princess & Peppernose, with the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. From capturing low-light shots to creating atmospheric effects, here’s how the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G 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, with the moon and lights flickering. The camera follows Joe Wright walking through the castle, with crew members working on set. The cast and crew are filming actors wearing masks and running with flashlights in the forest. The crew is moving with the cast and filming with a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G phone. A silhouette of a woman puppet crying, looking at the moon as she fades away. Footage of the crew filming birds’ flying silhouettes. 'PRINCESS & PEPPERNOSE: BEHIND THE SCENES'. Footage showing how two scenes were filmed: the first scene shows people running outside a castle at night, with a drone flying above followed by the resulting footage filmed on the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. '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 the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in a stabiliser. 'Seamus McGarvey, Director of Photography'. We see the crew filming in the castle and Seamus McGarvey is looking at the screen of the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. Cut to cast dancing, running and filming as a woman films using a stabiliser 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 the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. Cut to a young woman pulling cookies out of the oven, then she pulls 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 the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. A Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in a stabiliser 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 the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in a stabiliser. Joe Wright is standing next to a woman wearing a gold dress, while a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G is filming her. A man dressed in silver armour is standing in front of a green screen being filmed by a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. Cut to a young woman and man getting into a motorcycle with a sidecar in front of a green screen. Then we see a man looking at a woman painted in gold to like a statue. Cut to the camera is 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 tells us it was 'Filmed #withGalaxy S21 Ultra', then we see the SAMSUNG logo.
The untold story behind
the film
Inspired by his parents, who ran and founded the first dedicated puppet theatre in the UK, Wright wanted to include puppets and musical acts into his “strange and possibly quite twisted fairy tale” story. “I thought this was the perfect opportunity to kind of return to those roots and explore what that might be like,” Wright 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 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 camera rig. “You’re not hanging around for the camera to be ready,” Wright says. “It’s there, you pick it up, and you shoot.”


Amplifying low-light
moments
Shooting with the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G has a lot of advantages, but one of the biggest is the camera’s extraordinary ability to capture low-light shots¹. With most of the film being 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,” the cinematographer 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 the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. His cinematographer embraced the wider lens to get a very specific look and feel, saying, “it lent the film a real hallucinatory quality.” The 108MP wide-angle camera² 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, theatre-quality films? With the Super Steady feature, the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G’s built-in stabiliser, Wright and his cinematography team moved freely while shooting to achieve the floating “ghostly air” they had envisioned.
Watch the trailer for
"Princess & Peppernose"


Captured with the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G
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- ¹When compared to the previous S series.
- ²Maximum image cropping is subject to display resolution and the original image size.
- ³Super 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.