International work – Scotland

[Ned Miller]

Oh! I didn’t mean an old fashion, heavy metal dolly like an Elemack. There are now many lightweight dollies that ride on roller blade wheels on plastic curved track. Mine rides on two 8′ PVC pipes and there are options for curved, that’s what I meant.

Ned Miller
Chicago Videographer
http://www.nedmiller.com
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[Ned Miller]

There’s a lot of curved portable cheap dollies like this below. Probably something for rent locally:

https://nofilmschool.com/2013/02/snaptrack-cinerails-light-portable-curved-dolly-track-kickstarter

Ned Miller
Chicago Videographer
http://www.nedmiller.com
www,bizvideo.com

[Todd Terry]

Yeah, I’m intimately familiar with all of that, and use some of that equipment all the time. I even have a big wooden form that I built in my shop that we use to make curved PVC track (it holds the pipe at the perfect curve while it is heated with heat guns). Perfectly bending PVC is a much harder job than most people would probably imagine, as we learned through much trial and error over the last few years. Key word being “perfectly,” which is important.

We also use rubber flex track when needed.

But this particular job though, for a variety of reasons (some simple, some complex), is an ideal job for the curved slider that we have. I appreciate the suggestions, but we are really not looking for any equipment alternatives to what we have already decided will work best for this job.

I’m really only concerned about what hoops we have to jump through to get it in and out of the country. We’ll gladly do the jumping, as this is what we are committed to using and in this instance it is well worth it…. I just wanted to be a bit prepared for how many jumps we have to do (and how high).

Thanks all.

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

[Bob Cole]

[Todd Terry] “I’m really only concerned about what hoops we have to jump through to get it in and out of the country”

I hope this advice is not too late.

The warnings about coming into Scotland on business are very well taken. I tried doing that, and had to spend two hours convincing them that I wasn’t taking jobs away from native Scots.

otoh… by the time I got to the rental car counter, the little Ford Focus I’d reserved was no longer available… nor the next automatic transmission up… so I got to drive around Scotland for a week in a new Mercedes Benz, for the price of the Focus.

Good luck. Ship the slider.

Bob C

[Todd Terry]

[Bob Cole] ” I got to drive around Scotland for a week in a new Mercedes Benz, for the price of the Focus.”

Nice!! I’ll one up you though… once on a shoot in Vegas the casino hotel was overbooked and gave our room away in error. We had to make do with the “chairman’s” penthouse suite, Frank’s old digs. Probably 3000 square feet, full tacky Old Vegas so anything that wasn’t mirrored was gold plated… several bedrooms, a half dozen baths, living room, bar, balcony jacuzzi… I kept imagining Sammy playing at the grand piano that was in the living room. Ahhhh…. Sadly they only put us up there for one day/night before sorting out their mistake 🙁

As for Scotland, looks like everything is worked out there for next week’s shoot, thanks to fellow bovine Tom Sefton and his assistance there. The COW rules!

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com