Make movies with your iPhone - explained!

Make plans, grab your gear and shoot

FILMING MOVIES ON your iPhone can be fun and exciting, and video clips are more likely to catch the eye on a social media feed than still images. As it's ever-present, you can whip out your iPhone and press the Action button (on iPhone 15 Pro) to instantly open the Camera app. If you then press and hold the Action button you'll start recording video. This enables you to capture clips of spontaneous events such as your child's first steps.

However, the best movies should start with a bit of planning ahead (which professional moviemakers refer to as the pre-production stage). For example, if you're going to shoot a wedding then you might want to consider packing some helpful accessories into a kit bag, such as an iPhone handheld cage. Cages have cold shoe mounts so that you can clip accessories on, such as a JOBY Beamo LED light to help you capture more detail in gloomy interiors, or a mini directional shotgun mic to capture clearer audio during a noisy party. Check out our top gear recommendations on the right.

SHOOT TO EDIT

After pre-production you move on to your movie's recording (or production) stage. Instead of recording the action as one long, boring shot with the camera panning wildly back and forth (or "hose-piping"), break it up into shorter clips that you can edit together to tell a story.