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Use a home-made dolly

Some of the smoothest, most cinematic moves you'll see are dolly shots, where the director mounts a camera on a wheeled tripod and moves it toward or away from a stationary subject.
You can fake a dolly with a skateboard or a baby carriage .
How about a rolling office chair? You'd need a dolly driver to manoeuvre for you, but with a couple of rehearsals, you could get an interesting new shot.

Put together a budget-friendly light kit

Camera-mounted lights, though easy to find and relatively inexpensive, may not be the best answer to your indoor lighting problems. You--and your subjects--will be happier with multiple light sources spread around the scene. Try these tips.

  • Turn on a few more lamps.
  • Replace some of the low-wattage bulbs in the room with some 75- or 100-watt ones.
  • Bring in a desk light and position it close to the action.
  • Do whatever it takes to bring the overall light level of the room up to a decent range.