{"id":265263,"date":"2026-06-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/valhalla-transmissions-todd-jones-on-tgrs-iphone-ski-film\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:30:20","slug":"valhalla-transmissions-todd-jones-on-tgrs-iphone-ski-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/valhalla-transmissions-todd-jones-on-tgrs-iphone-ski-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Valhalla Transmissions: Todd Jones on TGR\u2019s iPhone Ski Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/valhalla-transmissions-todd-jones\/\">Valhalla Transmissions: Todd Jones on TGR\u2019s iPhone Ski Film<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/valhalla-transmissions-todd-jones\/\">https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/valhalla-transmissions-todd-jones\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 10:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tetongravity.com\">www.tetongravity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more than three decades,\u00a0Todd Jones\u00a0and\u00a0Teton Gravity Research\u00a0have built a reputation around pushing action sports filmmaking forward. Big mountain lines. Helicopters. Phantom cameras. REDs. Massive lenses pointed into hectic winter environments.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they\u2019ve released something completely different.<\/p>\n<p>TGR\u2019s latest project, VALHALLA TRANSMISSIONS, marks the first time the company has shot an entire ski film exclusively on iPhone. Not as a joke. Not as a behind-the-scenes side project. A full-scale TGR production filmed in the same environments, with the same standards, and the same expectations as every other film they\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VALHALLA TRANSMISSIONS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4k8TuIbz250?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe basically ditched all the cameras we normally use,\u201d Jones says. \u201cWe grabbed two of the best skiers in the world, Kai Jones and Sammy Carlson, and went and did our thing the way we always do it; but only using iPhones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TGR_iPhone_BTS_Still_06-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&#038;auto=webp&#038;optimize=high&#038;quality=70&#038;width=1440\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:center;position:absolute;inset:0;height:100%\" title=\"\" srcset=\"\n      https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TGR_iPhone_BTS_Still_06-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&#038;auto=webp&#038;optimize=high&#038;quality=70&#038;width=640 640w, \n      https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TGR_iPhone_BTS_Still_06-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&#038;auto=webp&#038;optimize=high&#038;quality=70&#038;width=750 750w, \n      https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TGR_iPhone_BTS_Still_06-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&#038;auto=webp&#038;optimize=high&#038;quality=70&#038;width=828 828w, \n      https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TGR_iPhone_BTS_Still_06-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&#038;auto=webp&#038;optimize=high&#038;quality=70&#038;width=1080 1080w, \n      https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TGR_iPhone_BTS_Still_06-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&#038;auto=webp&#038;optimize=high&#038;quality=70&#038;width=1200 1200w, \n      https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TGR_iPhone_BTS_Still_06-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&#038;auto=webp&#038;optimize=high&#038;quality=70&#038;width=1920 1920w, \n      https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TGR_iPhone_BTS_Still_06-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&#038;auto=webp&#038;optimize=high&#038;quality=70&#038;width=2018 2048w, \n      https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TGR_iPhone_BTS_Still_06-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&#038;auto=webp&#038;optimize=high&#038;quality=70&#038;width=3840 3840w\n    \"\/><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h5 heading css-10sni5z\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"h-how-apple-and-tgr-came-up-with-the-idea\"><strong>How Apple and TGR Came Up With the Idea<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The idea started after Apple approached TGR through its \u201cShot on iPhone\u201d program. TGR pitched multiple concepts, but one immediately stood out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one I loved most was just the pure challenge of it,\u201d he says. \u201cForget the REDs and the Phantoms and all the normal cinema setups. Go into the mountains with only the iPhone and see if we could still make something that felt fully TGR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Jones, that challenge wasn\u2019t about proving a phone could shoot pretty images. It was about testing whether a device people carry in their pockets could survive, and perform, in one of the harshest production environments imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work in such a specialized environment with snow, weather, action, long lenses, follow cams, all of it,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019ve refined our filmmaking process for decades. So stripping all that away and rebuilding it around the iPhone became really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h5 heading css-10sni5z\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"2\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"h-building-a-cinema-workflow-around-an-iphone\"><strong>Building a Cinema Workflow Around an iPhone<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>But the production wasn\u2019t as simple as pointing a phone at a mountain and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/valhalla-transmissions-todd-jones\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valhalla Transmissions: Todd Jones on TGR\u2019s iPhone Ski Film https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/valhalla-transmissions-todd-jones\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-05 10:30:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Todd-Jones.png?auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265265,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265263\/revisions\/265265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}