Practicing with the Ultimate Camera Setting

Normally, if we shoot something on our smartphone, it's visible that it's not shot on a cinematic camera. Why?

The Answer are the settings your phone has for the camera. Changing these could change the way you shoot with your Phone's camera.

So What I practiced today was with keeping the frame rate to a cinematic 24 fps, not higher than that because that would give unneeded detail. So we keep the ISO around double the Frame Rate so that it matches. And the shutter speed matters a lot. And when we are deciding the Shutter Speed, we check what sort of lighting we have.

So we start with a low shutter speed then crank it up when needed until the video starts looking good.

Another factor to keep in mind is the one that mostly differentiates a smartphone camera work against a DSLR or a mirror-less. And that is the White Balance, that is normally something we ignore. So White Balance is kept according to the Lighting, if there is less lighting then we increase the white balance, and vice versa if you are in a sunny area or a frame with high lighting.

Some phones do have the option that you can make the setting according to your need, but it is recommended that we use a third party app. I use an app called Moza Genie, it's completely free and is easy to use and allows you to choose your own settings. 

Now you might think that I have a burner phone, and I can shoot only on Iphones or Samsung's can be used but believe me I just used an old 10 mp phone camera. You don't need camera equipment or something you just need a filmer's mind and some knowledge.

Here are some Practice Videos and some footages that I captured using these settings. Some of them I kept for a dreamy world like look. Some I tried to make them look cinematic on a 10 megapixel camera, looks good, eh