Here is the music video recorded entirely with Google Pixel 2

The latest music video of John Legend was recorded entirely with Google Pixel 2. It is not the first time that the Oscar-winning singer in 2015 with the song Glory in the film Selma collaborates with Google: Legend has indeed participated in a commercial on Google Assistant in the past few months with his wife, and now he used only and exclusively the top of the range of Big G in the shooting of the song A Good Night. The goal, for Google, is obviously to show what their technologies can do.

It is not easy to guess that shooting is done with non-professional tools, especially if we consider that the chosen environments are almost all in the dark, with the exception of some parts of the video that take place under the light of the sun. It is clear, that experienced professionals worked on the shoot, and the smartphone was paired with high-end instruments. The video was made with different Google Pixel 2 (even XL), and with a third-party registration app.

The technicians have also used different methods to externalize the smartphone’s camera qualities as much as possible, optimizing the settings of the lights in order to favor the small sensor in otherwise difficult night shots. All of this – of course – in a big promotional campaign probably wanted by Google: the photographic field is a fundamental marketing point for the top of the range, and Big G wants to know that their smartphones can record videos of high level.

To be vain is not only Google, but also competitors keep us to know that their smartphones can replace, with the appropriate proportions, professional devices within well-circumscribed areas (they have done Apple, Huawei and even Nokia). The famous Steven Soderbergh has also shown that you can make an entire movie using a smartphone, an iPhone on that occasion, even if that time it seems that Apple has not had a say.