DIY: How To Make The Best Helmetcam Ever
Posted on May 15, 2012 in Effects and Stunts | No Comments
The DakaKin team shows you how to create the best Helmetcam ever.
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DIY Tilt Shift Adapter Using a 3D Printer
Posted on May 15, 2012 in Cinematography, General Production | 1 Comment
Tilt shit adapters can be pretty pricey but Joe Murphy offers up an intriguing DIY solution – printing one up with a 3d Printer.
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Fast Simple DIY iPhone Stabilizer
Posted on April 23, 2012 in General Production | No Comments
Are you really going to shell out hundreds for a machined stabilizer rig for your iPhone? Gene Lythgow demonstrates how to assemble a very quick and basic stabilizer using some devices that may already be in your garage.
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$25 DIY Mini Camera Jib Crane
Posted on April 19, 2012 in Cinematography, General Production | 3 Comments
With basic angle aluminum and square tubing, Olivia Speranza created this simple DIY Mini Camera Jib / Crane. She used a GH2 camera, but it can also be used with small Sony NEX5n or NEX-7 cameras.
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DIY Film Distribution
Posted on March 28, 2012 in Selling Your Film | No Comments
This presentation is a step by step DIY guide to how Andrew P. Byrd secured distribution of his indy feature, Johnny Appleweed.
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DIY Dishpan Light
Posted on March 28, 2012 in Lighting | 2 Comments
Griffin Hammond crafts a unique DIY lighting solution for $86, using hardware store parts, and eight 100-watt-equivalent compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs.
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DIY Micro Slider for GoPro and smaller cameras
Posted on February 29, 2012 in General Production | No Comments
Lugging out a big heavy camera rig can impress the clients but sometimes you just want to (or need to) go the complete opposite direction. German Filmmaker Friedhelm Fischer demonstrates how to build a micro slider for small cameras like the GoPro Hero 2.
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How to get Great Monkey Photos at the Zoo
Posted on February 27, 2012 in Cinematography | No Comments
A simple trick to get you some cool monkey footage with only a camera phone… hey it’s Sunday what do you want from us? :P
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Build a DIY Dolly That You Can Sit On
Posted on February 23, 2012 in Cinematography | No Comments
In this tutorial Tom Antos explains how to build a professional style camera dolly for a $120 that not only rides the camera but the operator as well.
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I’m Getting Skeptical about these DIY DSLR Projects
Posted on February 21, 2012 in Cinematography | 10 Comments
This DIY project claims to increase the performance of your cheap Canon Lens Kit, although I’m a little skeptical. But hey, look at those before and after pics, it must work!
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Cheap DIY Follow Focus Ideas
Posted on February 9, 2012 in Cinematography | No Comments
Evan Luzi lists off a few ways to rig up your lens to create a simple and cheap DIY follow focus with items that can be found at your hardware or grocery store.
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Kickstarter campaign for Eye3 Drone Hexacopter Too Good to be True
Posted on February 2, 2012 in Filmmaking 360 | 4 Comments
An exciting aerial photography crowdfunding project crashes back to earth as Kickstarter pulls the plug on eye3 Drone Hexacopter
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DIY $10 Film Riot Slider
Posted on February 2, 2012 in General Production | 2 Comments
It’s not a pipe dream… Ryan Connolly of Film Riot domonstrates how to DIY a slider using hardware store plumbing supplies.
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DIY Streaming Media Server
Posted on January 27, 2012 in Editing | 2 Comments
The filmmakers at our favorite underwater film production, The Underwater Realm, talk about what it takes to put together a 16 terabyte media server running on Infiniband to safely store and stream Red Epic Raw files for a fraction of the cost of an enterprise grade server.
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DIY Flexible Top Handle DSLR Rig
Posted on January 26, 2012 in Cinematography | 3 Comments
In this video, by Caleb Pike, he shows you how to build a simple yet efficient handle rig for your DSLR camera.
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