Accesory to create camera shake on sticks

[Tom Taugher]

I am looking to create camera shake / turbulence for a cockpit scene I am shooting. I have been told I can lock it off and add the shake in post, but I wanted to see if there was a way / tip / trick people have done to create bits of shake in camera. I don't want to shoot handheld, want it fairly locked off, but moments where the frame shifts to sell the effect.

Any ideas / accessories that you guys have used to create this affect?

 

[Justin McAleece]

A tennis ball between the tripod and the camera works pretty well! You can still basically lock it down before and afterward, but can shake the hell out of it in between.

 

[Bob Gundu]

http://www.newmanairhead.com/about/

Newman air head.

 

[Jason Diamond]

Yup that head rules. Have had friends make one as well.

 

[Chris Henze]

I used an off weighted drill held against the camera once.

 

[Satsuki Murashige]

You could always hire JJ Abrams for the day:

 

[Andre W.]

http://www.clairmont.com/spec_items/image_shaker.html

 

[David Peterson]

A tennis ball between the tripod and the camera works pretty well! You can still basically lock it down before and afterward, but can shake the hell out of it in between.

This! Seen it done before.

 

[David E. Rogers]

two drunks

 

[Björn Benckert]

This one kicks every tennis balls ass...

http://www.vantagefilm.com/en/news/null/july-2007-10265


There is another one called the milkshaker which works similar and I think is more common at rental houses. those things might look overly engineered but the way you can control them is really nice. Easy to go from no shake to a lot, to slow to super rapid etc. You basically have knobs for the amplitudes and wave lengths for every axis and can tweak it around as you please and then a over all "gain" knob. First time I saw it I though it was the most stupid thing, but to see it in action made me change my mind about it very quickly.

 

[Hal Long]

We once used a drill fixed to the pan arm. By mounting a plywood circle/square to the drill the operator could control the speed of vibration through the drill trigger. You can control the depth of vibration by mounting the plywood shape further off-center. It worked great, but by the end of the shoot the drill was very dead!

 

[jordan levy]

back in the day we would use a small drill attached to the pan handle but put in lopsided or bent screw so it shakes it by being off balanced.
old music video trick.

 

[Robino_J]

Wouldn't shaking the camera create bad rolling shutter? if you need a lot of shake I would put a couple markers on a wall and shake the camera with tennis ball or head as other suggested then track the motion and apply to your footage in post.