Jean sent in a great round up of hardware you can build to make your own videos look more film like "...a guerrilla movie maker tool, making a Track Dolly and making a Lens Hood for a Camcorder. And while on the DIY tip, is worth mentioning the old photographer trick of keeping a string tripod in your pocket to help stabilise a still camera ( a bolt that fits into your camera tripod hole, with string attached which u stand on and pull taut - presto less camera movement ). And I'm not going to bother, but the DIY LCD projector system is cute too..." Link.
DIY Video hardware For film-like FX
Jean sent in a great round up of hardware you can build to make your own videos look more film like "...a guerrilla movie maker tool, making a Track Dolly and making a Lens Hood for a Camcorder. And while on the DIY tip, is worth mentioning the old photographer trick of keeping a string tripod in your pocket to help stabilise a still camera ( a bolt that fits into your camera tripod hole, with string attached which u stand on and pull taut - presto less camera movement ). And I'm not going to bother, but the DIY LCD projector system is cute too..." Link.
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