Video cameras can be held in a small selection of manners. They can be stabilized on a stationary platform such as a tripod. They can be stabilized on a mobile platform such as a dolly. They can also be held by hand or attached to the body in a different way. Regardless of what method is used, the result on the film will be determined by the method. Most TV shows and movies use a very stable camera, but not always. Some shows deliberately use a very unstable camera to get a variety of effects.
Watch a television drama such as Lost, ER, or One Tree Hill. Watch for camera movement or the lack there of. Write a journal entry detailing significant changes in camera stabilization and what, if any, effect it had or should have on the audience. Note how the camera is being stabilized. Why is it being used by the director or cinematographer?
Resources
VideoMaker – Stability in Motion: http://www.videomaker.com/article/12589/
VideoMaker – Stabilization Tools: http://www.videomaker.com/article/8053/
Wikipedia tripod: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod_%28photography%29
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/
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i recently saw clover field and it is mostly filmed with the unsteady camera affect for the viewer it is to make the effect that it is being filmed by a person that is there with people... there is also some steady cams in there and the steady cam is good for those with an upset stomach but it doesn't show as much effect as the unsteady cam... but the thing about the unsteady cam is hard to fallow but for clover field it works
oki well after losing all of what i painstakingly wrote i am gonna try and write just as much well proble not... oki well tripods can be usefully for certain videos but for other ones it is unnecessary like i just recently saw clover field and it was filmed with the unsteady camera effect and it worked very well with that movie because it put you in the shoes of the people that were there... but there are some disadvantages to it, it makes you kinda queasy if it is made badly. but in the steady cam its definitely better for other types of movies suck as the conicals of Narnia
My camera stabilization journal is up on my blog.
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