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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

How do you call this rig? How good is it? Pros and cons?

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It seems fairly easy to rig, but is it worth it?

@1:15http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh4Ibon-5HY
 
They call it "table". It works better then a fridge. And It doubles as a table at home:smiley:
BTW, thanks for the link. Never saw bts of that great movie
 
I've never understood this B-roll format. You see it for loads of movies and it's always the same format, weird cuts that show you something but nothing in particular, black cuts, some with sound some without - who makes these? Is it the same people who do these BTSs? Is that why it always follows this odd structure?
 
RE.. the rig, and the BTS

RE.. the rig, and the BTS

The rig reminds me of the venerable "plank" rigs used on Evil Dead.... (basically, low hat bolted to long board, a guy on each end, tape the eypiece)
And while the BTS had a lot of shaky moments (might have been done on DSLR instead of with a servo zoom), it looks like the typical subjects field producers ask us to shoot, and that talent lets us shoot.
As far as sound goes, we typically have a roving sound person, alternating what they feed the camera between an aux from the sound cart and a roving boom.

On days that no sound person is booked, you sometimes are MOS. As in, while the sound dept may plug you into an aux, if they are not rolling, or forget to enable that output.. you get nothing.

The limits of what you can shoot change day to day, but you have done that job well if no one remembers you were there, and you client is still happy when it comes time to pay you.
 
Sam Goldwater said:
I've never understood this B-roll format. You see it for loads of movies and it's always the same format, weird cuts that show you something but nothing in particular, black cuts, some with sound some without - who makes these? Is it the same people who do these BTSs? Is that why it always follows this odd structure?
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Oh. yes, on studio projects, it is a very small group of publicists and field producers that dictate what and how it is shot.
I have worked on a lot of these units since 2006 or so
 
Sam Goldwater said:
I've never understood this B-roll format. You see it for loads of movies and it's always the same format, weird cuts that show you something but nothing in particular, black cuts, some with sound some without - who makes these? Is it the same people who do these BTSs? Is that why it always follows this odd structure?
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Pretty sure this is just a stringout of B-Roll for an EPK package. It isn't meant to be watched as an actual behind the scenes documentary or anything. It's delivered to companies that will use the selected B-Roll to create featurettes, news stories or whatnot. I have no idea why these get uploaded to youtube - it's as if someone pulled it town off EPKTV and thought "of fans would enjoy seeing this stuff!"
 
Andrew Ceperley said:
Pretty sure this is just a stringout of B-Roll for an EPK package. It isn't meant to be watched as an actual behind the scenes documentary or anything. It's delivered to companies that will use the selected B-Roll to create featurettes, news stories or whatnot. I have no idea why these get uploaded to youtube - it's as if someone pulled it town off EPKTV and thought "of fans would enjoy seeing this stuff!"
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posting this media is a clear violation of most of the paperwork I sign to work on these projects..
 
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