I'm about to admit I was wrong...I know, I am shocked as well. I just noticed something interesting while slowly scrubbing through the video on my iPhone. Each individual frame is crystal clear, but more importantly is that there are, in fact, 24 distinct frames in each second (surprise surprise considering you filmed it @24fps
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With how choppy it was, I was under the impression that it was skipping frames, but the camera is showing you exactly what you asked it to. So that brings my to the topic: What does "Cinematic" even mean? In my mind, and probably most others, that term cinematic somehow equates to "my video will look good.......somehow".
Well, as we can see, 24fps doesn't look like it does in Lord of the Rings. It kinda looks like s*** actually. The difference is when you pause a quick moving scene in LOTR, the video is blurry. In our videos we get a snapshot so clear we can frame it and put it on our wall. It seems that for 24fps to work right and look good, your brain needs to have ALL the visual information contained in a panned scene, even if that means taking two frames and smearing the transition from one to the next (i.e. slow the shutter down like everyone keeps suggesting so that each frame is a blurry smear of light)
Apparently your brain is simultaneously lazy enough to see a blurry panned scene and think "huh...well I guess that was just too fast for me to process so I'll just assume it was clear and be happy with it" but also when shown 24 clear distinct frames per second it's like "nah man....nah see that's some ******** right there, you can't fool me...where's the rest of the information??"
So I guess the answer to the question – what is cinematic? – would be "blurry fast moving objects shown to your brain really slowly"
The only other option is to film in a higher frame rate and give your brain the missing information between the frames.
