From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

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Gear overview

Gear overview

- Which when it comes to getting low angle shots there's a lot of various pieces of gear that you can use. And of course this week we talked about quite a few of them. But let's highlight some of them in a little bit more detail. In the first one, I don't think needs a lot of detail let's just call it out. Use a blanket or pillow to just rest the camera on. - Yeah, something soft that'll keep the camera from tipping over and keep it stable. This is a great way on a budget even your jacket, a hoodie, a sweatshirt anything's gonna do. The flip side is sometimes the surfaces are unstable. So having a spare piece of plywood around gives you a nice, hard surface to put a tripod on so things aren't unstable like a beach or sand. - Sure, well, and when you need to get low and you want even more stability but you don't have a lot of money there's kind of a subset of tripods out there that we refer to a micro-tripods. And micro-tripods can get really low to the ground. I'm a big fan of the…

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