Dollygrippery

It's a wrap! After four months of car rigs and Technocrane and Shotbusters* and splinter units and hotel rooms and forty degree temperat...

I don't have time to write up anything this week. Just too much work and travel. Here is an old one from a couple of years ago. Hope ...

   I posted last year about some problems regarding the Alexa that I was having on a show (I would link to the post, but the internet here i...

  I'm from the old school. This is the school where you, get marks, watch a rehearsal, set up, do a first team rehearsal (stop and go), ...

   Hi everyone. It's been a busy couple of weeks so not much time to post. We are sprinting toward the last three weeks of our fourteen ...

DP: "You're starting too late." Operator: "We started when he entered frame. You want to be moving already?" DP:...

  Or as they should have called it, Shit (2011) , is a simply horrible movie. Every lazy filmmaking mistake you can make was made in this pi...

  We are doing a lot of blind* Technocrane moves on this show with a very exacting director (and DP). As a result, I've recently become ...

  Let's talk about Technocranes for a moment. I generally love them. As long as you have the right size (not too large, not too small), ...

   I've been a little lax in the posting duties lately. Mostly it's because we have not only gone into straight nights, but also hav...

   A student at UC Santa Barbara recently contacted me about a three part workshop they are having on Sunday April 28th. They have a Fisher ...

   I'm two weeks in on a fourteen week show and I've had....one day of dolly work. Since it's a movie about a cross-country race...

  I recently was asked a question on Twitter about wheel setup. As a Chapman user, you have a few options and the questioner wanted to know ...

  It's that time of year again. Frank Kay of JL Fisher sent me the latest update about this year's festivities. I can't really s...

  I've been having a little, okay, a lot of trouble lately, coming up with good topics for posts. Over the last  six years we've cov...

  Wick recently suggested a post involving 3D and how it affects us as Dolly Grips. To be honest, I don't have that much experience with...

    Dollygrippery  would like to congratulate my friend Brad Rea for receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award for Moving Camera Platform Ope...

I happen to be lucky enough to work in a town with many options in telescopic cranes. I'm missing at least one manufacturer's but ...

   A colleague of mine recently sent me an email with an idea for a post. It concerned what you do when you work with a new operator who con...

This is how my week went (Stream of Consciousness): 12X's, 8X's, beams, track, rain, sleet, cold, night, splinter, dance floor, ro...