Surprise, another assignment for blogger after our final! This time we're browsing a website and looking for cool and interesting articles that pertain to filmmaking! Yay! The article I chose is all about steadicams. Cool, right? They were invented in 1974 by a man named "Garrett Brown." He was a Philadelphia based filmmaker and inventor, and before then nobody had any idea this kind of technology could be a thing. All they had to use back then was the dolly and regular old tripod. So what Garrett did was revolutionary for the entire industry and it would affect it forever. He started out by making a compilation of his works that he had filmed with a steadicam, and thus used this compilation to sell the product and make other filmmakers want this for their next films.
GARRETT BROWN - Walk of Life from Bobfilm on Vimeo.
This video showcases much of his original montage and also some footage filmed soon after people accepted the technology and used it more professionally. Garrett truly was a visionary and revolutionary and we can see this now when we look at how popular the steadicam is and how different films would be if something like this didn't exist. I specifically used this for many shots in our own movie, the Kansas City Saviour. I would shoot mostly everything actually on the steadi when we wouldn't need it to be super still, and the quality of the shots really reflects how great of an invention it is.
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