Behind Our BTS vs Results Short: iPhone 18 Pro, Kodak Dusk LUT

This is our own short for Pocket Cinematic: five three-second pairings of behind-the-scenes phone footage against the graded shot it became, shot on an iPhone 18 Pro with the BlackMagic Camera app and graded afterwards with our own Kodak Dusk LUT.

It is a companion piece to our 4 camera movements that make phone video look cinematic: no crew, no rig beyond what is already on the desk, a phone propped against whatever is nearby and recording the next clip while the one before it gets graded.

Contents

Propping the phone up before a scene
Checking the shot before recording
The last clip in the sequence

Propping the phone up before a scene

Reaching to prop up the phone recording rig beside a laptop, in the BTS half of Shot 1 — *At 0:02 in our video: propping the phone up against a laptop on a desk, about to record the next clip.*

That is the whole rig for the BTS half of every pairing in this clip: a phone leaned against whatever is already on the desk. The graded half underneath it, in the half of each frame the clip labels RESULTS, is the same shot after the BlackMagic footage goes through DaVinci Resolve and the Kodak Dusk LUT.

Checking the shot before recording

Putting on headphones beside the phone recording the next clip, in the BTS half of Shot 4 — *At 0:10 in our video: headphones on to monitor audio while the phone on the table keeps recording.*

Every one of the five pairings in the clip follows this same loop: set the phone recording, check it, let it run. We kept the pictures here to the BTS half on purpose. The truthful enhancer that cuts our stills will not crop into the on-screen RESULTS caption text, so the clean way to see the graded half next to the raw one is the embedded video itself, not a still pulled from it.

The last clip in the sequence

Holding the phone that is recording the next clip, with a motorsport broadcast playing on the screen behind it, in the BTS half of Shot 5 — *At 0:12 in our video: the fifth and last clip being recorded, a motorsport broadcast playing on the screen behind it.*

We covered the same iPhone 18 Pro's Photographic Styles earlier this month in our KL haze piece, shot the same handheld way this one was.

If the gap between that BTS half and the graded RESULTS half is what you want to close on your own footage, our own Pocket Cinematic course, RM349 for lifetime access, walks through the exact BlackMagic Camera App and Kodak Dusk LUT workflow this clip uses.