The Grip Book, 6th Edition
Gain the essential skills of a professional grip to become the jack and master of all trades on any movie or television show set. Discover vital insider tips ranging from how to operate cutting-edge rigging and lighting equipment to performing difficult camera mounts on aircraft, boats, trains, and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Routledge
2018.
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| Edición: | 6th edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009631128106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Warning
- Contributing companies, manufacturers, and suppliers
- Note from the author
- About the author
- Acknowledgments
- What could happen on your way to the throne!
- A bit of encouragement
- The Grip Book companion website
- 1 Introduction
- What this book is about
- About the equipment
- A professional's tips on the trade
- Self-test
- Let's get going!
- Grips in general
- The name "grip"!
- A little grip history
- The grip department
- Key grip
- Best boy grip
- Grips
- Grip zones
- High person
- Hip pocket grip
- Call time
- A typical day for a grip
- Setting up a shoot
- The schmooze
- Call sheet
- Front side of call sheet
- Back side of call sheet
- Warehouse stages
- How it may go on the set
- Grip job description
- Tools
- Physical requirements
- What to expect
- the unexpected
- Pace on the set
- What key grips like
- Warning/disclaimer
- The big break (strictly for the brand-new grip!)
- Ron's words
- Set etiquette
- Being a professional crew member
- Being professional when you're boss
- Location etiquette: getting along with locals
- Some thoughts on equipment
- Last thoughts and parting advice
- Ron Dexter's suggested book and source list
- Finally - your new career
- 2 Essential equipment
- Apple boxes
- Baby plates
- Bar clamp adapter pin
- Basso block
- Bazooka
- Bead board holder
- Big Ben clamp
- Branch holder
- C-clamp branch holder
- Tree branch holder
- Cable crossovers
- C-clamps
- Camera wedge
- Cardellini clamp
- Chain vise grips
- Clipboard
- Condor bracket
- Cribbing
- Crowder hanger/no nail hanger
- Cucoloris
- Cup blocks
- Dots and fingers
- Drop ceiling scissor clamp/cable holder
- Drop-down, 45-degree angle
- Empty frames
- Flag box/scrim box
- Flags and cutters
- Cutters.
- Flexarms
- Furniture clamp
- Furniture pad
- Gaffer grip
- Grid clamp
- Grifflon
- Grip clip
- Grip/electrical stage box
- Grip helper
- Grounding rod/spike
- Hand truck
- Ladder
- Lamppost system (by backstage equipment)
- Mafer clamp
- Matt pipe adapter baby
- Matt poles - polecats
- Meat ax
- Miniboom
- Muscle truck/cart
- No-nail hanger/crowder
- Offset arms
- Parallels
- Pipe clamp, baby
- Pipe clamp, junior
- Pony pipe clamp
- Poultry bracket (Matthews)
- Putty knife
- Reflector
- Reflector slip-ons (scrims)
- Sandbags
- Scrims - grip
- Single net
- Double net
- Lavender net
- Silk
- Scrims, butterfly kits
- Silks
- Scrims, flex
- Side arms
- Stair blocks
- Stand adapter pin
- Stands
- C-stand
- C-stand operation
- Lowboy stand
- Reflector (combo/light) stand
- Overhead (high roller) stand
- Overhead stand usage
- Stand extensions (riser)
- Studio overhead grip arm
- Taco carts
- T-bone
- Telescoping hanger-stirrup
- Trapeze
- Trombone
- Tube stretcher
- Tubing hanger
- Turtle
- Umbrella
- Wall bracket (set)
- Wall plate-junior
- Wall sled
- Wall spreader
- Wedges
- 3 Expendables
- Automatic tape gun (ATG) tape (aka snot tape)
- Baby powder
- Bead board
- Black wrap
- Bobbinet
- Butcher paper
- Clothespins (C-47s)
- Drywall screws
- Dulling spray
- Duvatyne
- Foam core
- Grip chain
- Laminated glass
- Layout board
- Lexan
- Penny nails (#8 and #16)
- Plywood
- Pushpin
- Sash cord #8
- Show card
- Silicone spray
- Spray glue
- Spray oil
- Staples
- Stovepipe wire
- Streaks 'n' Tips®
- Tapes
- Camera tape
- Double-faced tape
- Gaffer or grip tape
- Paper tape
- Visqueen
- 4 Knots
- Bowline knot
- Clove hitch knot
- Half hitch knot
- Square knot
- 5 Basic tool descriptions
- Standard screwdriver (common or blade type)
- Phillips screwdriver.
- Reed and Prince screwdriver
- Files
- Hacksaw
- Lineman pliers
- Torpedo level
- Crosscut saw
- Circular saw and blades
- Drill bits
- Matt knife
- Tape measure
- Reel tape measure
- Claw hammer
- Personal tools
- Personal tool belt
- Everyday basic tools for a grip's personal toolbox
- Power tools
- Useful items to also carry
- Recommended personal gear
- Clothing and items for location
- Personal electronic equipment (a must)
- 6 Filters and gels
- Fluorescent light filters
- Tungsten conversion filters
- Neutral density filters
- Daylight conversion filters
- 7 The rental house
- Day 1
- 8 Techniques for mounting the camera
- Speed-Rail® tubing and fittings
- Power grip or super grip (mounting technique)
- Camera clamp
- Mini-slider SR-71 dolly (mounting technique)
- Slider
- Truss system
- 9 Cables, slings, and hardware
- Miniature cable
- Wire rope
- Wires
- Strands
- Core
- Spreader beams
- Sling types
- Dynafor MWX miniweigher
- Glossary of cables and slings
- Staging systems
- Ferrellels
- Steel deck
- 10 Lifts
- Condors and cherry-pickers
- Scissors lifts
- Suppliers
- Additional equipment
- 11 Cranes, jibs, arms, dollies, and heads
- Cranes and communication systems
- Spotting the post
- Motorized cranes
- 12 Cranes mounted on wheeled bases
- 13 Lenny arms
- 14 Cablecams
- General information
- Cable cam motion control system
- 15 Dollies
- Doorway dolly
- Western dolly
- Tube dolly
- Fisher #11 crab dolly
- Features
- Standard accessories
- Optional accessories
- Fisher #10 crab dolly
- Standard accessories
- Optional accessories
- Fisher #9 crab dolly
- Features
- Standard accessories
- Optional accessories
- Chapman Pedolly
- Chapman Peewee
- Chapman Super Peewee IV
- Chapman Hustler
- Chapman Hustler II
- Chapman Hustler III
- Chapman Hybrid.
- Chapman Hybrid II
- Chapman Hybrid III
- Chapman Sidewinder
- 16 Precision Cadillac Track and Chapman Lencin
- 17 Fluid and remote heads
- Flight head (remote)
- Hot head (remote)
- Kenworthy Snorkel camera systems (remote)
- Libers III (remote)
- Oppenheimer Spin-Axis 360 head (remote)
- Pearson fluid head
- Power pod (remote)
- Weaver/Steadman fluid head
- Weaver/Steadman's "ds Remote™" (remote)
- 18 Field operation
- How to build a dance floor (for the dolly)
- Leveling the sub-floor
- Lay the plywood
- ABS/Sintra
- Dance floor wedges
- Setting your dolly marks
- Accessorize your dolly
- An exterior tee marker
- Dollies
- Laying dolly track
- Installing the dolly on the track
- Making a correction
- Marks
- Courtesy grease cover
- A complement of tapes (dog collar)
- Setting dolly planks
- Rolling track cart
- Dolly tricks of the trade that will help you
- Stake bed racks (grip manufactured)
- Ladder rack set-up
- The "Putter Scooter" (aka butt dolly)
- Other butt scooters (Putter Scooters) (grip manufactured)
- The Studebaker
- Butt rail dolly (four foot long shown)
- Shopping cart dolly
- Dolly ramps
- Protective caps for dolly track (made from PVC)
- Quick tricks
- Rainproof your microphone
- Truck load chart
- Make a city skyline on a set
- Aircraft on flatbed
- Cover unwanted sprinklers
- Shower cap
- Hiding a frame's edge
- Tying down an easy-up leg
- Proper bagging ("see, the full weight is off the ground")
- Wind stick on floppy flag
- Push pin in crouch tip (for ready use)
- Tape shim
- High-roller transport
- Camera safety shields
- Making diffusion frames
- Using newspapers at a "cutter and light diffusion" (clever!)
- Chinese lamps with "rubber dip" blackout paint on top
- More tricks
- Bus roof mount (key grip: Rocky Ford)
- Plumber's putty
- Cutting rope.
- Use a tennis ball as a safety cover
- Wall seams
- Use wood under feet (on any lawn)
- Mark your equipment
- Just don't!
- Another don't!
- Don't be a pig!
- Blue screen: building the structure
- Tying down a platform system
- Setting a "wag" flag
- Freshly painted floor protection
- A "walk and talk" scene
- The cloud
- Movie trucks
- Catering truck
- Called a hoodie! (simply a tug and a trailer)
- Green screen
- Mounts
- The insert trailer
- Hard gels
- Dollies
- Rigging on stage and location
- The perms
- The perms/rafters
- Meat ax
- Rigging
- Mock-up cockpit
- Set bracing
- Set snow
- Sets
- Rigging on location
- Rigging of the face of a building
- Building a cove to black out a window/porch
- Rigging a lamp on parallels
- High hat package
- The cloud
- Making a burrito roll
- 19 A professional's tips on the trade
- Glossary
- Canadian versus USA grip equipment terms (some … not all)
- Gripping solutions
- Grip self-test
- Index.
