Here I am off again helping our technical video director test out a new piece of camera equipment.
This is a car seat camera rig which installs easily on the bottom bars of a car’s head rest. This particular rig is mounted on the passenger’s seat and allows for hands free filming.
To film, just point the camera in the direction you want to film. The camera rig holds the camera steady so you can get a good clear view of the action from your car.
Car Seat Camera Rig
You will need an Allen wrench to make sure the camera and rig are securely tightened before you drive off.
To test out the filming capabilities of the camera in the rig, we drove at various speeds through different neighborhoods to see what would film the best.
We drove as slow as only five miles per hour up to regular speed.
Naturally, if you have a passenger, they will have to sit in the back seat.
We also went over some bumpy farm roads to see how steady the rig would hold the camera.
Film Props in Car
So far, the results have been promising and the video has been good.
I, also, decided to take a photograph of the movie props in the video director’s car.
Let’s see what we have—folded down cardboard boxes, an ESPN toy game player, and an orange plastic pumpkin. Sounds about right.
Enjoy your day and happy movie making!
Camera Testing
We are back again testing the camera rig arm but this time, we have the camera facing out the rear window.
If you look closely at the above car photograph, you will see the camera. We also rolled down the window.
The technical video director does not own a “train” or cinema track system and wanted to film a person walking down the street while the car, acting as a cinema track, slowly rolled along.
A cinema track allows for smooth movement of the camera.
Camera Facing Out the Side Car Window
This is a close up of the camera set up.
Now to review the film to see if things worked out.
A couple notes of concern, the car is rolling at a slow speed so you need to find an area where cars will not line up behind you. Also, you need to walk close to the car, so please watch those feet around the tires.
The camera was held pretty steady. During our trial run, I sat in the back seat to grab the camera if it looked in danger of bumping.
Whoops, looks like Farmhouse Magic Blog forgot to put on matching socks this morning.
I am, also, wearing my ratty country girl shoes.
I hope you enjoyed this blog with yet another technical video product.
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Update on Car Seat Camera Rig – August 11, 2020
Since this blog proved to be so popular, I decided to publish an update on the equipment that we used above.
Unfortunately, the arm on the car seat rig broke after only two uses.
We are now testing our a second car seat camera rig.
2nd Car Seat Camera Rig
Both car seat camera rigs were priced at approximately $20.
This new car seat camera rig seems to be made a little better. You need a wrench to tighten things up.
For now, we are again out on the road testing things out.
FARMHOUSE MAGIC BLOG will keep our Readers posted on the results.