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Most filmmakers learn their tricks, from other experienced filmmakers.
Here's one of them.
Let's say you need to film something, like a person walking down the street.
This is commonly referred to as a traveling shot.
You want the footage shot to be stable.
There's nothing wrong with the camera FLUIDLY moving a bit from side to side,
or up and down as you're filming.
But footage that looks uncontrolled and shaky, or worse, has those jarring impacts,
that are transferred while you're walking from your hands up into the camera...
Well, it just looks really bad, and fixing THAT in post,
is nearly impossible.
There's all sort of gadgets to stabilize your camera
like steady cams, shoulder rigs, and fig rigs, to name a few.
If you have the money or budget to buy or rent these,
and you put in the time to practice using them,
that's great.
Some people don't.
And even so,
What happens if you're on location, and you, or someone else,
forget to bring that stabilizer?
Trust me, it happens.
Well, here's a filmmaking trick.
Use your tripod, as a shoulder rig.
That's right.
You can do it like this.
You mount the camera on the tripod like you would normally.
Now take the head, and position the camera like this.
Now just mount it on your shoulder, and you've got a shoulder rig.
It really works in a pinch, and can salvage what might have been an otherwise
ruined shooting day, into something usable.
I hope that helps, and thanks for watching!
And it's really quite easy.
All you have to do is move this *** and have it go the wrong
way, and then put it back up,
and put it the right way, and figure out that it's this *** that you
want to turn, to do that,
and then, stop, and re-shoot it.