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Build Your Own Steadicam
John Jorsett writes "Always wanted to film one of those cool 'walking' sequences, where the camera stays rock-steady as you trudge along? Well, so did Johnny Chung Lee, except he didn't want to lay out major cash for a professional Steadicam rig, so he built his own for $14. He further claims you can do it in about 20 minutes if you know what you're doing. What more could a cheap, impatient Spielberg wannabe ask for?"
How about talent?
How about a better room to film in than the bathroom? Seriously, are we going to be expected to line up around the block for "SteadyShit"
Overrated / Underrated : Moderation
YEAY!...Now I can look even stupider when I visit other places and take meaningless film I'll never watch again.
Every windows user is a sadomasochist.
These are cheap enough to use with a picture phone. And with the inverting bracket, we can now have upskirt shots without the blur!
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How'd he manage to build it without Duct tape!? Now that's impressive.
"Much work is lost, for the lack of a little more." -Edward H. Harriman
Wow thats got a dual purpose, works to keep your movement from interefeing with the shot and if the actors get out of line you can break it down and beat em with the pipe, also works great for self-defense when shooting ghetto style.
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this isn't really new, I studied under the great Steven Speilbergo and we used these all the time.
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Please mark as "Overrated" due to poster's plea not to be moderated as redundant and the fact it's boring and not really related to this discussion at all.
Actually, more of a Kubrick wannabe
How the fsck do you /. a .edu system?
Holy shit!
Like any of you jog, let alone with a camcorder.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Getting good results is not so much about the equipment, but how you use it.
I tried that bit on my girlfriend but she didn't fall for it.
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This "dude" has obviously violated the SteaduCam patent as per the DMCA. Gentlemen, quite simply, this is IP rape, of the vilest order. I'm notifying the patent holder immediately.
am I allowed to simply left-click, or is that against the rules?
-ashot
How weird is it to go to the site, read the text, then watch the movie, only to see some very familiar backgrounds. I then looked at the url and realized that it is from the same school I go to. No wonder the download was so fast :)
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Maybe this will help out some of the people who make amateur porn and just can't seem to hold the camera still. Just don't let John Ashcroft find out.
Am I the only one who think's he's the real-life version of John Lithgow's character in Footloose?
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Yeah... I kill me too ;)
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as the director and DP of a filimg group I do beleive in suffering for my art. the Suffering though is done by my crew and the actors.
Oh I'll make them suffer alright....
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What i really want to know is...
where the heck can i play professional squash.
Oh yeah!