in today's video we're gonna be talking about my top 5 accessories for helping
to take your phone videos to a new level
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journey of this filmmaking revolution to start off with this video is not
sponsored by anybody except for yours truly none of these things that I'm
gonna show you are anything that were sent to me free of charge for review or
anything like that I went out and purchased each and every one of these
things and I use them on a regular basis so take that for what it's worth I like
these things they're good so to start off with number one you're gonna need
something to stabilize your footage to make your phone stable to hold your
phone when you're not holding yourself because this gets old really really fast
so my favorite is this Manfrotto me pixie tripod with the phone's lamp on
top now this little part here if I can get my camera to focus maybe maybe not
come on there we go this is not there normally I use some double stick tape to
glue that on or to stick it on and that's basically so that I can add a
microphone or something like that small accessory but this is great runs about
$30 u.s. and it's a excellently well-built you can hold it like this
which actually gives you great stable footage or you can pop the legs out and
set it somewhere it also bends and moves around fantastic little device next up
is probably one of my more favorite if you're not going to use a regular big
tripod like this or a Joby Gorillapod then your one of your other options is
this device here this device is a two-handed holder which holds one two
three cold shoe mount for things like lights and microphones and stuff like
that your smartphone clamps into it right there
where really really well this can sit on top
of a tripod and give you a lot of options so this actually is one of my
favorite and in fact when you're filming something and using two hands to move
your phone it becomes a really really great stabilizing device next if you're
going to step it up a notch or two or ten then use consider getting a gimbal
like this this is the DJI Osmo mobile number one they have the Osmo mobile
number two out there are not that expensive about a hundred and thirty
dollars okay that's a little bit expensive but it's not bad considering
what these things will do the gimbal will stabilize your footage and give you
that super great buttery smooth footage that you've been dreaming of your entire
life you still have to learn how to use it but a gimbal will really help you and
especially if you're doing a lot of run and gun type shooting a gimbal will
really help to stabilize your footage if you're just gonna be to doing Talking
Heads stuff like this then I just highly recommend a good tripod next is probably
the most important thing well second most important thing after getting
decent video is getting good audio so to get good audio you need an external
microphone unless you're in a really controlled environment like this which
most of us are not if we're outside or if we're doing interview or if we're
running through the woods you need some better audio and one of my favorite
little microphones is this the rode videomicro it is fantastic
comes with this little wind muff here that keeps a the wind out doesn't really
really good job you can look at one of my other videos to see how well it does
this is the other option if your phone still has a headphone jack thank you
very much to Apple for taking away all of our headphone jacks then this device
will do a great job because it'll plug straight into your headphone jack and
then there you go you're ready to start filming it also comes with one of those
fuzzy wind muff things and it does a great job another option if you're doing
a lot more talking head style videos like this then I would highly recommend
the rode smartlav this can be clipped on to your shirt this can be clipped on to
your shirt and if you own an Apple device you'll want the dongle of course
but otherwise it plugs straight into your phone just like any
thing else you can clip it here or put it under your shirt even tape it under
your shirt and then you get a great unobtrusive microphone that picks up
great quality audio from your talking head videos like this next is lighting
what are you gonna do if you're gonna film at night or if you're running
around the streets at night or you don't have maybe the best lighting you don't
have studio lights like this setup you need some extra lighting so I have two
options for you here one is the aperture a lm9 which is a fantastic light I use
quite often it actually goes very bright great light super bright last for a long
time it's a rechargeable battery it will mount onto a cold shoe mount so it will
mount like this just like some of the other ones will now if you're more just
doing the selfie type or close-up stuff then I also tried this light out from
Amazon which is actually really pretty cool it turns on like that you can clamp
it right on the front of your phone and then you have this nice little light
that you can talk to you and it gives you a pretty decent quality light it
also is rechargeable via USB and closest thing is a portable ring light as you'll
ever get now another thing that I never leave home without any time I'm gonna do
any sort of shooting pretty much any day of the week is a USB battery pack I
always have several of these with me because shooting a lot of video and
especially when you're plugging an external microphone in your phone
battery will die super super quick so always have a few of these with you or
one of these at least they're not that expensive you can go pick one up at your
local electronics store for probably just a few dollars like five or ten or
fifteen dollars depending on the size you get and the brand you get now if you
want to really take your phone making to a new level you need to get something
else like an external lens the great thing about newer phones is almost all
of them are coming up with multiple lenses like this but if you want more
options then you can go to a company like moment lenses that I'm a big fan of
and have shot a lot of my videos with and I use these two lenses here
one of these is the wide angle and this one is the telephoto angle telephoto
angle it's the telephoto lens it basically
doubles the focal length of your lens and the wide angle gives you a fantastic
wide view it's fantastic quality glass great quality optics and will give you a
lot more options when it comes to your shooting they are expensive but they're
well worth every penny because any of the really cheap lenses like that I've
tried have not worked out well and I've given you given me a lot of distortion
around the edges so there you have it my five top accessories that I take with me
pretty much everywhere anytime I go anywhere to film anything and actually
it's all small enough that I just have it with me all of the time because it's
easy to throw in a small bag and have with me all the time I would like to
hear in the comments from you what do you use the most in your film making and
what accessories do you like the most that you've used in the past or if you
would like to also see me review specifically accessory for foam film
making then let me know that in the comments below - thanks for watching and
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in the next video