Anyone out there thinking of making a film based on Hangin’ with Friends? I am. That would combine some passions (friends.. hangin’), AND it would be the only chance I’d have at beating my friend Lauren who essentially ruined that game for me. Making movies about apps could end up being like shooting into the monitor (If you’ve never done that, try it. You’ll feel like a 5-year-old again for about 5 seconds before you realize someone might be watching you). However, making movies WITH some of the amazing apps out there can be transformative. Your DSLR doesn’t come with screenwriting and storyboarding software or an app that has a countdown to magic hour. There are a lot of lists of cool apps out there for filmmakers with iPhones but many of them are for using your iPhone to help make films with some other camera. Those are some cool apps too, but here’s a list of cool apps if you are planning on making films with your iPhone as the capture device.
This is a camera app that gives you a lot of control, but its also the app of choice when dealing with EnCinema’s 35mm SLR lens adapter for ALMlive’s mCam rig. I am in the process of trying this stuff out and will eventually come out with a hands on review. The app is cool. The full rig is interesting but has its drawbacks. There are, however, no other ways that I have found to get the DSLR depth of field on an iPhone. Here’s a video that is on the almost DSLR site that was shot with this rig. Its a music video and it looks like the lyrics are not great for kids, however its in french, so unless your family is bilingual I think its pretty safe.
That vignette is definitely not added in post. Thats an artifact of
shooting with the 35mm lens adapter, so if you’re looking for clean
edges, just use the iPhone camera or mCam’s wide angle lens that comes
with its adapter.
For the rest of these apps, I’m just using the descriptions from the
app store as I don’t own any of these apps. I think they’re pretty
cool though, and we’d love to hear anyone’s thoughts if they’ve
actually used these apps.
Storyboard Composer -[formally "Hitchcock"]
Storyboard Composer is the world’s first mobile storyboarding application which
allows you to acquire photos with your phone then add traditional
storyboarding markups such as dolly, track, zoom and pan. You can even
add your own stand-ins. The user can set a duration for each
storyboard panel and then play it back to get real time feedback on
pacing and framing.
Movie★Slate is a digital slate, clapper board, shot log, and shot
notepad— designed for use with film, television, documentaries,
interviews, and home movies.
Movie★Slate provides an easy way to log footage and take notes as you
shoot— saving you time later when you capture and edit the footage on
your computer.
Black Mana Studios’ Screenplay is the world’s first fully-functional
mobile screenwriting application. It allows professionals and
hobbyists alike to write complete movie and television screenplays directly on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
MagicHour (formerly VelaClock) is a world clock that can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, three kinds of twilight (civil, nautical, astronomical) for dawn and dusk, moonrise, moonset, duration of daylight, current phase of moon, date and times for the next four moon phases, countdown to the next sunrise or sunset and next moonrise
or moonset, and more. MagicHour’s feature set makes it especially popular among photographers, enabling them to find the magic hour, the time of moonrise and the next full moon. “VelaClock [now MagicHour] is a must have application for any photographer with an iPhone.” - Martin Bailey, Nature Photographer, Japan
FiRe is the world’s first professional field recorder built
exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch, brought to you by the minds at
Audiofile Engineering. Combining powerful, elegant and uncluttered
audio utilities with unparalleled technical support, Audiofile
Engineering is one of the most innovative and experienced audio
software developers for Mac OS X and the revolutionary iPhone.
The most advanced and full-featured professional teleprompter for the iPad just got even better. See all the new features we’ve added to our latest version.
SCRIPT GROUPS
- Create groups and place scripts into them for better organization of large script libraries
- Rename a group after creating it by double tapping.
- Move scripts freely from one group to another
REMOTE CONTROL OVER WIFI WITH TELEPROMPT+ FOR MAC
- Use Teleprompt+ for iPad to control your Mac’s prompting
- Use Teleprompt+ on your Mac to control your iPad’s prompting
VIDEO RECORDING (iPad 2 only)
- Front camera can be used for direct prompting and informal on-the-go recording sessions
- Rear HD camera can be used to demonstrate product or show a subject while reading from prompter and recording audio
- Users can configure quality settings
- Multiple takes can be recorded
- Video can be exported using iTunes file sharing
- Video can be exported to Photo Library to send via email, post to YouTube, or edit in iMovie
- AirPlay Support! Stream your recorded videos right from Teleprompt+ to your AppleTV.
- Pinch, move or hide the video window to set up your prompter the way you like it.
Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fun, feature-rich video editing app only for iPhone 4. Create a video postcard of your day at the beach and publish it to the web — without ever leaving your spot in the sand. Or make a movie of your child’s birthday party and send it to your parents — while the party is in full swing. With iMovie for iPhone, you can start several projects and finish them
whenever you want and wherever you are.
So that’s a start. There are so many apps out there for filmmakers
and photographers. These are just some that can jump start you as an
iPhone filmmaker. We encourage you to explore the app store, try the
free versions of things and let us know about the best new apps out
there for shooting, editing, measuring time and light, adding special
effects (take a look at J.J. Abram’s explosion apps). Make things,
and enjoy yourself!
I’ve used almostDSLR pretty extensively, but it’s almost too full featured. There’s buttons and switches all over the screen and it can be a little intimidating.
My favorite recording app is Filmic Pro. Everything is very intuitive and flexible, it allows you to lock focus, white balance, and exposure, and also shoot with 2:35:1 bars. They are going to implement a screen flip feature in their next update, so it will be useable with the multitude of Dslr lens adapters available for the iphone. Awesome app, and the guys that made it are really cool about questions and comments.
Filmic Pro is great. We are big fans of the app as well. Reliable updates and a company that really cares about the iPhonefilmmakng community.
For some of us that really want to geek out and play with the framerate- this app seems to have done it right. Easy to experiment with and
fun to see different results - we love the look of 24p.
Just purchased the app our sales/marketing rep had great things to say about the app and the creator who happened to be on hand in the Dominican Repbulic for a shoot.
Great information. Thanks.