The 'Rig'

I'm officially a camera geek. I've spent some (too much) time at Home Depot and Ace Hardware of late looking for parts to use in constructing my new HV-20 'rig'. For those of you uninitiated into the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) world of guerilla filmmaking (ex- for those of you are not geeks), a 'rig' is simply a type of camera setup that has been configured by its user to accomplish multiple goals in cinematography at one time. For example- I'm trying to create my rig in a manner that would allow me to have multiple mics, a video light, an additional camera lens, a video monitor, and some zoom controls all housed in one solid piece. I haven't gotten too far yet, but I do have the skeleton of the rig basically completed (see photo). It's not spectacular by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm slowly working on adding more functionality and form to it. The end result should hopefully look like something someone would use to shoot a movie with... not like a botched ab-roller... errrr... like it does now...