Here are the plans for buildinga $14 steadycam. Im gonna try to build one whether we end up having a use for it or not.
Also, I watched this interview a while back and you can see the ladder dolly that this Ty Evans built for filming skate tricks:
I think ty evans is the best thing going in skate videography. In that video he talks about a camera set up he made usinga remote control car so that the camera could go under cars and such.
I think if we went the camcorder route we could experiment with stupid stuff like that bc it wouldnt matter if we fucked up a camera.
ALSO, I'll find some videos when i get home to illustrate this, but I think that using a fisheye lens on low-to-the-ground tracking shots looks super awesome. Im pretty sure there's some of that in the Gnar Gnar video I sent in the last post.
I think low shots are awesome anyway:
But I think that the low, moving shots filmed with a fisheye lebs are super awesome. It's a pretty standard technique in skate videos but you dont really see it anywhere else.
It's awesome that the videography that goes into skate videos is designed just to make the trick look as pretty as possible. the camera angles and such need to have nothing to do with storytelling or any of the issues associated with a normal movie. I think it would be cool to take some cues from skate videos in fliming the show.
I'd like to look for one fish eye lens that could go on the ladder dolly if that becomes a reality.
This is alot of shit Im sending to you I realize and if youre not into any of it thats cool. Also, if Im not making myself clear with any or all of the ideas Im trying to get across let me know.
If you are into any of it I could try to diagram out how I'm envisioning the positioning of the cameras in relation to the performance areas.
More later.
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