EXCELLENT! That is just what we want. Go PoorFishy!

Just as an aside, I got my DIY Jib to do a nice smooth crane down, nice and slow.. with a bottle of water. I'll be doing a tutorial update on that one soon I think.
 Here's a blooper shot using the thing. Starts at 38 seconds

Oops lol...how can an artist ever work with all these interruptions!!! LOL. n Very cool can't wait to see your tutorial on this one!

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That was very nice camera movement (talked as an amateur, of course)- what did you do with that waterbottle, I don't think I got that. But a very nice gandalfian outfit, too...

AmazingRando, it's 'amazing' what you can do with little to zero dollars, as you can see by a few comments here on this thread.  That's the real trick in indie filmmaking; getting as much as you can for as little as you can.  These are the challenges that make filmmaking so much fun (and sometimes very frustrating). 

But good luck with your film.  As a filmmaker myself, I'm always interested to see what others put together..  Have fun and it'll be fun to watch your project come together.

Rika, the bottle of water is a counterbalance on the  crane. Then there is an extra smaller bottle of water with a hole in it. The water drains out and the balance  slowly tips. The trick is to get the move to come to a non jerky or non-bouncey standstill where you want it. I still have not perfected that part, but in this shot it worked for me. The Gandalfian outfit was made out of some cloth I got off some office dividers I found thrown out in the street, and some chair covers inherited from my motherinlaw. I was given the wig, the beard is mine the hat is  cardboard and sweatsuit material, and the stick donated from nature.

Okay, nice idea, I will put my husband to that.

I didn't get a chance to work on it because some materials I ordered didn't come. )8

you mean remaking Elbow TheAmazingRando?

Yeah.

I am nearly finished remaking Elbow. I started last friday and my sewing machine died so I had to sew it by hand which was a pain in the neck and took two days. I first made it out of a light colored fleece then I wrapped it in fur so there wouldn't be a lot of ugly seams. I put the mouth in and now I'm just waiting for the eye to dry. I'll put up pics when I'm all done.