Film / TV / Media Crew - Technical, employment opportunities and ranting

Today I assembled and rigged our biggest ball inches from the floor in the glorious Printworks London. Very very pleased with this setup...

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Amazing 😮. Great work. Any nervous moments rigging it up?

Nah, assembly was worst part on this one. The utter lack of ceiling height in there due to all the ducting etc meant I had to install the steel framework and motor while I was inside it with a gap only someone as skinny as me could escape thru.
I won’t go into detail as to how complicated that bugger is but the sphere splits into 8 pieces, internal framework and motor. All in it weighs under 300kg which is damn impressive considering it’s all glass mirror, no shitty acrylic.

The House rigger had the dubious pleasure of trying to get the slings and hoists in the best spot while simultaneously arguing with the director and other important people.

Amazing 😮. Great work. Any nervous moments rigging it up?

It’s hanging that one up outside that makes us nervous....

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It looks brilliant. Amazing work 👍.
^oooof

I don’t post my work often, sometimes in the craft thread as I’m more a prop maker than out on site but if anyone’s interested the company’s insta is @mirrorballpaul

We have engineered a position as suppliers for tv/film, not riggers nowadays(our days of fucked up warehouse raves, hanging balls off rusty girders are thankfully over) so as a general rule I don’t have much to post on this thread any more...

All our clients are fruitcakes and make our lives difficult. Hope that helps ;)

Hi media types, can I join your clan please, currently work in transmission at Red Bee 4 BT Sport. I used to work in music licensing for Felt Music, can always help out with music as I'm still good friends with the guys there. If anyone on here is looking for work I've got a few peeps into Red Bee now and would be happy to help out or have a chat or whatever.

^PS nice ball ed.

Hsy settle will give you a DM this week and a link on LinkedIn 👍

Hey Rich. No worries, give me a shout anytime.

Longshot but thought I’d ask here.
I’m looking to digitise some old photographic articles, so hoping to scan them. Anyone know where I can rent, or has one to rent, a decent flatbed scanner.
Think it’s something I can do over a couple of days. But just want rid of the mass of paper filling up my study, and to actually be able to see them on a computer.
Let me know.
Thanks

Fat Lama? Would say you can borrow mine but its kind of a cheap one. Only 50quid to buy this one

Failing that and depending on how many you've got to scan I've got some quiet shifts over new years, if you can drop them off in White City, can do them for you on the work scanner.

Had a look on fat llama, lots of a4 not so much A3.
Thanks for the offer but I couldn’t ask any one to scan the dog eared pages I’ve torn out of magazines.

I don't mind helping out, if you struggle to come up with a solution the offer is there. Can always swing me beer if it was to make you feel less guilty. A scanning company would charge about 10p for 400 A3 scans I reckon so around 40 quid.

Filmed a load of corporate talking heads in December. Client (their marketing lead) insisted that they should be addressing her in an interview style sit down, facing off camera bar a quick to camera stare to extract some screens for head shots because why hire a photographer? 'You can take a picture on that can't you?'). They had pre prepared scripts (multiple pages of A4) which they asked her to hold up on her head to get eye lines right. I said I had an autocue and they could just do it addressing camera. I could even potentially rig the autocue above her head if she really wanted. I clarified this with her by email before the shoot, on the phone before the shoot, on the morning of the shoot, after the first interview, and at the end of the day. Nope, definitely facing off camera.

I lit them solo which I don't usually do but covid etc. They sounded and looked mint for the budget.

Spent 4 days editing them. Submitted. Her line manager flaps. "Why are they looking off camera?!" (made better by her line manager being one of the contributors - where did she think she was looking on the day?). "We can't use these, we'll get everyone to self film on their phones in their dungeons. There's no extra budget for re-editing."

How it started/how it's going:

self film on their phones in their dungeons

Oh dear maybe the year spent on zoom has made everyone a director.

You clearly weren't going for that authentic, washed-out look that conveys world-weariness and ennui in equal measure.

Commiserations.

Oh shit... Esp love the framing on the bottom one including light switches. 😬

The bottom one does capture that "what a shit year feeling"

Hm, I'm puzzling over which words could possibly be meant in this article. They're all asterisked-out, makes it hard to read the article properly. :)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/2020-word-describe-year-poll-b421359.html

Oh, so it's 'shit'. I'd never have thought, but I'm grateful to the Standard not to be spreading such gratuitous profanities, unlike the potty-mouthed Guardian and its filthy readers.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2020/dec/21/word-of-the-year-poll-guardian-readers-describe-2020-as-shit

@CYOA You think that's bad, I once had a client ask if I could change the talents wardrobe in the edit.

This was after the client changed the talents wardrobe on set, twice.

The standard keeping standards.

Unreal scenes.

Thought I'd post this in here as well, looking for an Apple MacBook Pro 13" or 15" Intel 2018/19 with at least 16gb RAM.
Will be used for video editing, so need as much RAM as I can afford.
Let me know what you have.

Thanks

Can anyone advise me on how to put a voice show reel together

How long, content etc etc