stop shaking! or shake a lot!

Recently I was looking at a props to stabilize the camera to get a quite smooth and stable picture.

First one that comes to mind is of course FIG RIG, which was created by Mike Figgis, a British director who made movies like "Leaving Las Vegas" or "Sopranos-Cold Cut".

Fig Rig is a surprisingly simple piece of equipment.

basically, its a circular (but not necessarily..) frame with a cross bar to mount your digital camera to. it allows you to produce steady and smooth travelling shots by absorbing all the vibrations and shocks by the arm muscles that hold the frame.

 

Another way of preventing the camera from shaking is a simple device that you create with a couple of bolts and a tennis ball. 

I'm currently thinking of assembling one like the above one and trying it on..

Another idea is to create a sort of device that would allow us to create a shaky way of filming.

That would have to be a sort of long piece of wood with handles on both sides and a hole in the middle to attach your device to it..