6 Essential iPhone and Android Filmmaking Apps || Cell Phone Filmmaking

1. Intro: The best tool to use is the one you have access to. In this case, your cell phone. Hi, my name is Zoe. I'm a cinematographer and a Professor of Film. Today we'll be talking about the six essential filmmaking phone apps and how to use them. We'll discuss iMovie, Premiere Rush, filmic pro and others and talk about how you can use them to film your next big project. By the end of this course, you should feel confident using these apps to go out and shoot a film. Let's get started. 2. Shot Designer: Shot designer. Shot designer is an app that allows you to quickly and easily create a bird's eye view layout of your film set. As far as camera plots go, this app is excellent at shortening the time it takes to drought multiple setups and label them with camera movements by putting an automated arrows. Another great feature of this app is the ability to use your phone's camera to mimic a lens for professional cinema camera, although it is a somewhat limited feature, the ability to see the differences between how cinema cameras would perceive the same image is really interesting. Additionally, the camera feature makes it very easy to capture an image and add it to your camera plot. You can also easily label your camera positions by giving them descriptions. This will also make it easy to view them in the shot list that is populated on the convenient right side of your screen. Finally, there's a great feature called highlighter mode that allows you to draw over your plot as need be, is that even if you run over your plot entirely, all you have to do is turn off highlighter mode to get back to your clean camera plot. 3. pCAM Pro: P cam pro, pecan Pro is an app created by camera Tech David you bank. The app features a lot of excellent calculators that allow you to make quick decisions based on facts instead of guesses. There are options to preview field of view, depth of field calculators and aperture calculators to ensure that multiple subjects remain in focus. Let's look at a few of these features in more detail. When the depth of field calculator, you can figure out exactly how much in-focus space you have to work with based on the focus distance of your subject, the focal length of your lens, your aperture, the type of camera and its format. This is one of my favorite features, especially when shooting at a low aperture, because knowing this before the scene starts will avoid needing to reset just for focus. A similar feature is splits. This can help you figure out how to capture to subjects who are different distances from the camera in-focus. This tool will tell you where you need to set the lens focus and the total depth of field you'll be working with. What aperture you'll have to set your lens do to make the shot technically possible. This is especially crucial information as sometimes this split might not be possible to achieve due to the amount of light required to make the aperture workable. In this case, it would be best to either reconsider the blocking for the scene or reconsider the need for both subjects to be in focus at the same time. If you're serious about getting accurate results, I'd highly recommend making the investment in p can Pro 4. Filmic Pro: Filmic pro. Filmic pro is offered, considered the gold standard as far as phone apps for shooting Go and I worked with it before. It definitely has a lot of great features. It allows you adjust the frame rate to shoot again, control the focus, record and export blebs shoot using guys, adjust the color temperature, adjust the shutter speed, control the audio, and much, much, much more. The only thing I'm not a fan of with filmic Pro is the cost that purchase you can act as most of the features of the app is known for. However, to access the ability to shoot in log, you'll need to pay around 999 for the upgrade to the skinny kid. Although it is a great app with a lot of features, the costs do start to add up as you want to do more and more with the product. 5. Artemis Pro: Artemis. Artemis Pro is a digital viewfinder for almost every professional cinema camera and lens combination that you can think of. The app allows you to preview these shots on your phone as if you were looking through the cinema camera itself. This is an essential tool for cinematographers and directors as it allows them to preview the shots they want to shoot before setting up equipment. This can be a really useful tool on a location scout as you'll be able to preview the scene through different cameras as well. This may even help you make a more informed decision before you reach out to the rental house. Artemis Pro has a lot of other great features, including the ability to add overlays such as virtual stand-ins, create custom frame lines, capture stills and record video, and pre visualize color grading ideas. Again, the only downside is that the app currently costs 29, 99. 6. iMovie: Imovie. Imovie is a great free app. If you have an Apple device, while it may not contain as many features as a desktop editor, you can get very far with it. Imovie allows you to select video clips, photos, and audio from your device and edit them together however you'd like on your phone. It's very quick to use. And if you can't be bothered to pull out or your computer for a few quick clips that you already have on your phone. It's a great option. I won't spend too much time on this app, however, since there's another one, you should definitely consider. 7. Premiere Rush: Premiere Rush, as far as phone editing apps go, I think Premiere Rush is one of the best options to consider. First of all, like iMovie, it's totally free. But unlike iMovie, it includes a lot of additional features that mobile film makers will be looking for. In rush, you can add graphics like titles and transitions. You can do color correction and re-time your Eclipse, create bins for organization and much, much more. If you're considering which phone editing app to download, I'd highly recommend taking a look at Premiere Rush. 8. Conclusion: We've talked about a lot in this video from shot designer to Premiere Rush. I hope that some, if not all of it will be useful to you as you start working on your next film. I have a few other videos on how to work with camera equipment and lighting. So be sure to check those out. As always, let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about anything I shared today and I'd be more than happy to address them.