Overview

Don't buy or rent your fillm equipment - build it! Construct professional-quality camera rigs on your own with this comprehensive, step-by-step guide and stop wasting your money on overpriced equipment rentals and purchases! Dan Selakovich guides you through the creation of jibs, dollies, cranes, car-mounts, sandbags, tripods, and more. Features include: Build inexpensive but reliable and sturdy rigs-including cranes, dollies, stabilizers, car-mounts, and more; most for much less than $100! Includes over 2,000 photographs with clear step-by-step instructions, safety guidelines, material lists, and tool lists for each rig. American standard and meric measurements included. Includes a companion web site: http://dvcamerarigs.com/

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9781138460454

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"""If you wanted to start a film studio but only had $1,000, then this would be the book for you. You could be a ""DreamWorks"" in miniature. You can, believe it or not, build a crane for less than $100; a cheaper alternative then spending thousands of dollars to buy one or $500 to rent one."" - AAUGB ""If there's one thing Killer Camera Rigs has done for me, it has started me thinking outside of the box. Not that I had loads of name-brand equipment lying around, but having been in school (and therefore having access to a lot of it) made me think that I needed lots of it to make the stories I wanted to. And yes, some of it's nice, and some things really are worth the money (after a new lens, the Vinten Vision Blue and a decent set of sticks in my priority purchase). Killer Camera Rigs You Can Build is a great idea if you are really looking to create more flexibility for your story-telling, and you will start thinking differently about your DIY filmmaking."" -Microfilmmaker Magazine ""The singular beauty of this book is that Mr. Selakovich has successfully dedicated himself to producing clarity with every page."" - Michael Ferris, Camera Operator/DP (Die Hard) ""For filmmakers who like to shoot their films with a mobile camera withough spending a fortune on equipment rentals, this book is a great gift indeed. I highly recommend it for its clarity and common sense."" - Kris Malkiewica, Cinematographer/Author"

If you wanted to start a film studio but only had $1,000, then this would be the book for you. You could be a DreamWorks in miniature. You can, believe it or not, build a crane for less than $100; a cheaper alternative then spending thousands of dollars to buy one or $500 to rent one. - AAUGB If there's one thing Killer Camera Rigs has done for me, it has started me thinking outside of the box. Not that I had loads of name-brand equipment lying around, but having been in school (and therefore having access to a lot of it) made me think that I needed lots of it to make the stories I wanted to. And yes, some of it's nice, and some things really are worth the money (after a new lens, the Vinten Vision Blue and a decent set of sticks in my priority purchase). Killer Camera Rigs You Can Build is a great idea if you are really looking to create more flexibility for your story-telling, and you will start thinking differently about your DIY filmmaking. -Microfilmmaker Magazine The singular beauty of this book is that Mr. Selakovich has successfully dedicated himself to producing clarity with every page. - Michael Ferris, Camera Operator/DP (Die Hard) For filmmakers who like to shoot their films with a mobile camera withough spending a fortune on equipment rentals, this book is a great gift indeed. I highly recommend it for its clarity and common sense. - Kris Malkiewica, Cinematographer/Author

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Dan Selakovich has held almost every position on a variety of film and video projects: Cinematographer, assistant camera, gaffer, grip, boom operator, loader, and since 1986, editor and second unit director. As an editor, Dan acquired the reputation as someone who could ""fix"" a film in trouble, and found himself working mostly as an uncredited film surgeon making bad films a little more watchable.

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