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hello welcome to top five I'm your host Aya's Akhtar you might not know this but I'm a huge video nerd I used to make videos all the time with my dad's cam course I've shot and edited footage at trade shows as a one-man video team historic nowadays you can make one of these your camera of choice if you wanted today we're gonna count down the top five accessories you need to make your phone into a movie making machine let's get to it and number five more lenses camera lenses are very important to create different moods in the movies if you've got a phone you've got one lens welcome to if you count the front facing camera these days you can find Universal lens kits that clamp onto your phone to take macro shots wide-angle shots and fisheye shots iPhone users are at an advantage because there are a lot of lens adapters out there including this Kickstarter lets you pop in your iPhone 6 as if it was a cartridge number for a tripod adapter a tripod adapter is incredibly useful if you plan on making video with your phone for the most part phones are rectangular slabs and don't attach well to other things a tripod adapter lets you attach your phone to you guessed it a tripod or like a video stabilizer anything that would normally hold a camera on top of that many tripod adapters are adjustable so when you change phones you're not stuck with the useless adapter nothing ruins a good flick like unintentionally shaky video so invest in a tripod adapter number three a battery pack depending on what you're shooting you're probably going to need a lot of battery life it doesn't matter what else your rig has if you don't have power you're not recording anything Apple is famous words phones being sealed up and samsung s6 is pala tute both have excellent cameras so if you're looking to use them for shooting video it's time to invest in a battery pack I'm a fan of USB battery packs they can power a number of devices since they're more versatile than proprietary solutions and number two camera apps you can get a lot out of the camera on your phone with the right app on iOS check out filmic Pro it gives the shooter full control of things like focus shutter speed ISO and exposure on the Android side there's cinema fb5 with similar controls both are paid apps by the way eight bucks for the iOS version five bucks on the Android version but having control over what's recorded that's priceless before we get to number one you know how about an honorable mention for duct tape because you can pretty much do anything you want you need to make a custom mount you don't have a shoe doesn't matter duct tape but your phone might be a little bit gunky if you don't in the right case on it and the number one accessory you should have if you want to shoot video on a phone it's an audio adapter particularly a mini jack to XLR adapter why a beautifully shot video at a steady well-lit and while active it's unwatchable with that audio if you're serious about making video you need to have good audio an XLR adapter lets you use great microphones with your phone so you're not stuck with that built-in little dinky microphone there you go you've turned your phone into a movie making machine if you've got suggestions let us know on youtube or on twitter on that is you want more top fives like this check out top-5 cnet.com thanks for watching you