{"id":116,"date":"2014-05-19T15:59:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/?p=116"},"modified":"2014-05-19T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T20:02:19","slug":"getting-the-high-shot-the-camera-jib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/2014\/05\/19\/getting-the-high-shot-the-camera-jib\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the High Shot.   The Camera Jib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re knee deep in production for the Priest lake Documentary this last week.\u00a0\u00a0 Throughout the pre-production we\u2019ve kicked various ideas around about the format of the program and the idea shook out (like these things have a tendency to do) that a mix of traditional history documentary, coupled with a mix of natural information about the local flora and fauna, would be a good way for the overall story telling of the priest lake area.<\/p>\n<p>Both Ed and I are inspired by nature docs like the BBC\u2019s Big Planet, or really anything the BBC puts out frankly, and want to showcase some of the natural beauty that the Priest lake area has to offer.\u00a0\u00a0 We decided to shoot full 1080 HD for the nature scenes, to really capture the detail of it all, and have been traveling about the area getting good \u201cB roll shots of interesting nature shots.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we went up past Nordman about seven miles and got some great video shots of Granite Creek raging with spring run off with the telescoping camera jib positioned out over the crick.<\/p>\n<p>Ed put together a real simple camera jib made from an aluminum ladder and the damb thing works perfectly for getting interesting and smooth tracked camera shots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jib2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-122 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jib11-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"jib1\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jib11-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jib11.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jib2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-121\" src=\"http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jib2-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"jib2\" width=\"510\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jib2-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jib2-1024x614.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jib2.jpg 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unit it\u2019s self is made up of just one side of a telescoping aluminum ladder, hooked into a smooth pan head tripod via a standard camera lug mount.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s counter balanced with a 10 lb weight perfectly for the two different camera mounts we use (a static pan head mount and a free floating stedi-cam mount) and the Nikon DSLR camera we\u2019re using.<\/p>\n<p>Once the unit is all setup it take just two fingers to guide the camera through the arc of the shot.\u00a0\u00a0 All total I think we\u2019re into it for about 100 bucks for parts and we have gotten lots of use out of it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re looking to upgrade the unit a bit more by adding some simple powered gyroscopes to the stedicam mount so we can get perfectly angled and auto leveled motion shots.\u00a0\u00a0 We should have the parts to build the gyro stabilizers in a week or two and that will make this piece of kit work almost perfect!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/huesgfx.com\/dv\/2014\/05\/19\/getting-the-high-shot-the-camera-jib\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re knee deep in production for the Priest lake Documentary this last week.\u00a0\u00a0 Throughout the pre-production we\u2019ve kicked various ideas around about the format of the program and the idea shook out (like these things have a tendency to do) that a mix of traditional history documentary, coupled with a mix 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