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Creative Edge iPhone Movie Makers - Small Screen, Big Picture (Part 1)

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The iPhone is the movie camera for the rest of us. See how we and other award- winners are using it and what you can add for pro results

It’s through his ownership of Pixar that Steven Jobs is best known for changing the face of the film industry. But with the iPhone, another Apple legacy is emerging as movie-makers choose its clear and convenient HD camera as an alternative to conventional equipment.

iPhone filming is a cult pursuit that’s going main-stream. In February, the iPhone Film Festival (iphoneff.com) announced the winners of its fourth awards in genres including documentary, music video, animation and feature film. Major studios have incorporated iPhone-shot scenes, and accessory makers are introducing adaptors to bring serious glass and pro rigging to iPhone cinematography. The potential is historic: never before has so much moving picture technology been so easily accessible to the individual.

Creative Edge iPhone Movie Makers: Small Screen, Big Picture

Creative Edge iPhone Movie Makers: Small Screen, Big Picture

You don’t even need the latest model, although the cameras have continued to improve since the quite usable 3GS. My iPhone 4S was the natural took of choice for researching my new documentary. It recorded crystal-clear interviews and filmed locations beautifully, while apps such as Notes and Reminders made data collection and overall organization easy – all on the same highly portable piece of equipment.

When I reviewed the crisp 1080p footage, my heart was set on making my film about old age – working title ‘To the End of Love’ – as an iPhone movie. The addictive immediacy of the medium and the instant access to every step of the process, from scripting and shooting to color grading and editing, made cameras seem archaic.

A deeper delves into the iPhone film-making scene revealed a professional and rapidly expanding range of hardware and an overwhelming number of movie apps. Some of this offer a more conducive shooing environment than the built-in Camera software, while others help you cut and grade. While not all iOS filmmakers choose to edit on the device too – your footage is easily imported into iMovie on the Mac, or the reasonably affordable and fully professional Final Cut Pro X – it can certainly be done. And above all, in iPhone filming I found the enthusiasm, mold-breaking thinking and fresh creative spirit of a true renaissance movement.

Steady as you go: Manfrotto’s Modosteady is one if number of compact stabilizers you can attach to your iPhone. Use it like this with dangling balance weight or brace the articulated arm horizontally against your body to help hold the camera firmly

Steady as you go: Manfrotto’s Modosteady is one if number of compact stabilizers you can attach to your iPhone. Use it like this with dangling balance weight or brace the articulated arm horizontally against your body to help hold the camera firmly

Like fellow users, I already had countless hours of iPhone filming under my belt, but this is my first proper iPhone short, and I hope my experience so far will be of use to anyone considering their own project using the device. I’ll mention some of the equipment and apps I’ve accumulated as well as the techniques I’ve experimented with to get the most satisfying results.

The iPhone adores full daylight, and if you happen to have Californian sunshine available it delivers simply gorgeous video quality. Noise becomes an issue in low light, and that’s when you’ll need to pick your shots carefully to avoid asking the impossible feat of pulling clean detail out of the dark. Whatever the lighting, one thing the iPhone’s class of video sensor won’t tolerate is swift camera movements, which inevitably produce unsightly blur.

The rear-facing insight camera is the one you’ll be using. My iPhone 4S has pretty much the same specs as the iPhone 5, delivering 1080p HD at 30fps. Of course, 1080p is a resolution spec, not a quality level; it’s good to know you have all the pixels you need, but the image from different cameras of this same nominal rating will vary enormously. The iPhone is obviously limited in its hardware capabilities, with a tiny lens and sensor, but the components are surprisingly good Apple’s operating system software makes the most of them with intelligent automatic adjustments.

Tao and hold to lock focus and exposure on that point in the frame – great for setting up your shots

When shooting in video mode with the iPhone’s standard Camera app, you can tap anywhere on the screen to focus on that part of the frame. The exposure will also be based on this point. If you tap and hold until ‘AE/AF Lock’ shows on the screen, exposure and focus are both locked, and won’t adjust automatically until you unlock them by tapping again.

This is great for setting up shots, since you won’t want the camera to adjust itself after you’ve got things the way you want. Once you’re locked off, if the light changes slightly or something moves in the frame, the camera won’t hunt for a new focus or exposure, which could create a distracting effect in the footage. You can also choose what to focus on, even if it isn’t the most prominent or central object in the frame, and get some manual control over exposure by locking on a brighter or darker area.

Slide of life: Hanmah’s film, inspired by her experiences caring for elderly people, takes an honest look at the reality of later life. Using an iPhone meant she could shoot freely in award spaces and still produces footage of a compelling quality

Slide of life: Hanmah’s film, inspired by her experiences caring for elderly people, takes an honest look at the reality of later life. Using an iPhone meant she could shoot freely in award spaces and still produces footage of a compelling quality

Sometimes you might need to set focus and exposure separately, and unfortunately the Camera app doesn’t let you do that. However, it is allowed by the hardware and Apple makes this facility accessible to developers, so this is one reason you might want to shoot with a third-party video app.

Otherwise, you can often cheat the result you want by finding something to lock on that happens to be at the right distance for focus as well as a suitable brightness level for exposure. Remember this can be outside the frame you plan to shoot, because you can move the camera once the AE/AF lock is set – just be sure to double-check the focus before and after you shoot.

At the top left corner of the Camera app screen you’ll find the On, Off and Auto light options. The small LED light beside the iPhone’s camera is no substitute for the even the most portable of photographic lights, but it does produce a surprisingly strong little beam that can rescue an otherwise overly dark shot when the subject is fairly close. The catch I found, on the rare occasions when I tried using this, was that both elderly subjects filmed for this documentary and the autistic people I filmed previously found the intense light disturbing, so I worked around it.

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