Camera dolly

We decided that for our opening title sequence it would be nice to have smooth pans across the desk. The best way for this is a camera dolly. We decided that for this we would follow a video tutorial. Link to tutorial. We looked at all the things we needed from the video tutorial and hen went to homebase to get it all. 

Once we'd collected everything we started with the tubes for the dolly to roll on by driling holes through either side.

We then cut the wood to an appropriate size for the camera to mount.

Instead of a 90 degree metal strip we used plastic because it was cheaper and wouldn't affect the structure. We then cut this to size to be used to hold the wheels

Instead of a 90 degree metal strip we used plastic because it was cheaper and wouldn't affect the structure. We then cut this to size to be used to hold the wheels

We then drilled holes into the plastic so that it could be held in place by the wood and hold the wheels

We then cut more wood so that we could have a place to mount our poles

When we were adding wheels from a pair of old skates we ran into a problem because he wheels were too big to have them where the video tutorial instructs. This meant that it was very hard for to keep the wheels on the metal poles

We decided to add a strip to the end of the wheel and the used duct tape to keep it in place. This made it harder for the wheels to fall off of the track

I forgot to record a few steps but basically we took the head from a small tripod and then we used a special drill bit to hold the tripod head in place. 

I also forgot to record a few steps for this but we just drilled holes in the wood then put roofing bolts through the wood and the metal poles before 

This is the final product 

I am relatively happy with the camera dolly however wish that we had more time to create it because we may have been able to get some  different wheels which would fit the tutorial and make the dolly roll without having to be held in place. This camera dolly should reveal objects to the audience nicely and smoothly. This was also a much cheaper alternative to buying a camera dolly because they're usually very expensive. Here are a few examples Link 1 Link 2. As you can see these are around £60-£80. Although there are a few setbacks with our dolly it only cost us about £20 which is far cheaper than buying a premade one.