Learn The Art
Steadicam operating is a true art form.
And much like any other art form, you develop best as an artist when you have time to practice as well as feedback and training to help you hone your skills.
To help provide this feedback and training, I’ve begun to run one-on-one and small group training sessions to pass on my skills and experience to other operators in the community.
I have been an instructor in dozens of group workshops over the years, and also personally mentored many operators, and I’ve seen the impact good training can have on an operator.
These new training sessions are an opportunity for you to book time with me to hone in on specialized skills, get critiques of your current work and analysis of where you need more practice, and a space to learn the micro-skills that take someone from being a good technician to a valued artistic collaborator.
I highly recommend doing these sessions after previous workshop experience, since a multi-day group workshop allows you to grow with other students, and provides a solid foundation for operating skills to be built from. These trainings are therefore more geared towards operators who have completed a workshop, and are now looking for some next steps.
Types of Training Sessions:
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Bring your rig and let me evaluate where you are and what bad habits, technique issues, and technical issues you may not be seeing in your operating.
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Bring your reel and get feedback on how to best present yourself to producers, DPs, and collaborators.
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Want to learn how to move dolly-slow with the rig? Want to sharpen your skills with whip pans (or even whip tilts)? Nervous about using a rickshaw or vehicle hard mounting? I can help.