25 Great Podcasts You Should Download. A Tripod-On-Skates Lets Amateurs Pull Off Hollywood-Quality Camera Moves. What’s the difference between a compelling, immersive short film and a throwaway piece of sub-viral crap?
Not video resolution: nowadays, when every cat-filming schmoe has an HD video camera in his smartphone and the DSLR revolution has unleashed a tsunami of bokeh onto Vimeo.com, you need more than sharp pictures and good lenses to make an impact. According to Justin Jensen, an engineer-cum-amateur photographer/filmmaker who studied Computational Photography at the MIT Media Lab, "I realized that video quality is no longer limited by resolution, but instead by stabilization.
" In other words, you need smooth camera movement to give your vids that juicy sheen of production value. But since Jensen couldn’t afford a SteadiCam, he invented CineSkates: a tiny, inexpensive, portable, expandable camera-movement platform based on Joby’s Gorillapod. Must-See for Amateur Auteurs: Robert Rodriguez's 10-Minute Film School - Culture. Dynamic Perception LLC, Open-Source TimeLapse Motion Control Systems. Animate or movie making - web video. Canon DSLR Movies. Blender vids.