Wednesday
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Book Report
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 8:00PM 
My book is almost done. You may notice a slight remodeling of the blog to reflect this.
One of the things I've focussed on is achieving professional camera moves without big, expensive cranes and dollies. From Chapter 5:
I am mildly obsessed with small, lightweight, and above all inexpensive ways to move my DV camera smoothly and cinematically. Even as I sit in my director’s chair on a big commercial, designing a shot with a 30-foot techno crane, I can’t help but ponder how one might build such a thing out of PVC pipe and zip ties.In addition to sharing some handy tips for creating camera movements with found and inexpensive hardware, I also include plans for building the GhettoCam. I'm really excited about the GhettoCam—my brother and I built it last month and it's been a great little camera stabilizer. And in the spirit of the $14 Steadycam, it's cheap and easy to build.
No, the picture above is not the GhettoCam—but I will be posting some more info about it soon, before the book comes out!
Reader Comments (5)
Can't wait for the book to come out. Love the blog. Keep it rockin.
I just gotta pre-order the book! Already a happy owner of mark's studio techniques and your chapter on that book has some really awesome stuff. (and the rest of the book kicks arse too) So I'll be hoping your book to be as good as your chapter :)
So, no pressure, right? :)
Like Matt, love your blog too
You can pre-order right now. i just did from Amazon-now how do i go about getting that baby signed!?! : ) thanks for the hard work Stu. Also, love the Studio Techniques stuff.
jeff
Yes! How do we obtain a signed copy? Around here not a day goes by without someone asking "how would Master Stu approach this"? And then we comp in a CG helicopter - and that's that.
Bar3nd
You guys flatter me.
Mark Christiansen was at SIGGRAPH signing AE7 Studio techniques this year, so maybe Peachpit will have me doing something similar at some other event—I will certainly let y'all know!