All language subtitles for 09-GripToolsClamps.mp4

So welcome, I guess, to the world's most

strange cooking show.

So I have this, at this table, we're
going to talk a bit about the tools,

some of the more common tools and the
more unusual tools that you're going to

see over the next couple of shoots that
we are going to be doing.

And the great thing about where we're
going to start, which is, which is

grip, we're going to start with grip is
they're kind of like groups, kind of

like the legos

of the

production realm.

Just because something looks a certain
way doesn't mean it's limited to one or

two particular uses.

Most of this stuff can be used as
creatively as you want.

So generally it's about just rigging
stuff up and putting stuff.

I need to put a reflector over here.

I need to put this over here.

All of this stuff can be used in a wide
variety of ways.

There are also a lot of things that are
not on this table that are worth, that

are worth covering.

So for example, like I'm going to talk
about four different kinds of clamps,

there's a lot more than that

there's clamps for all different kinds
of specialty purposes and specialty

uses.

And chances are, if you need a piece of
equipment to be hung somewhere or

mounted to something.

There are things available to help you
do it.

You just have to do a little bit of
research

and figure out what those are.

But I'm going to take you through some
of the more common ones, some of the

ones you're going to encounter day to
day.

And these are some of the more regular
ones that I use in my studio.

And the first of those

is the standard,

a clamp.

And we call it nay clamp, because

that was pretty easy to remember.

These come in a variety of sizes, a
wide, wide range of sizes.

Some of these are very small, and
they're useful for things like clipping

a dress, making a dress appear to fit a
little bit better, or a blazer to be a

little bit smaller.

And so you use those all the time.

You'll see that in the video, some
smaller ones, at the larger end of the

spectrum, something like this.

You'd probably use it to mount seamless

to the bar, so it's big enough that it
can go around the seamless roll and

then mount to the bar.

a zillion different things.

You can use a clamp of this size for

usually, when you first get one of
these they are really, really tight,

and it requires

a little bit of extra force to get it.

But once you get it open, you can kind
of hold it in place.

And so this is the a plant, probably
one of the most fundamental ones you'll

use if you want something even smaller,
and you're not looking at a small

aclam, you know, you've got the little
clothes pins that you can use as well.

Those are pretty commonly used to
attach gels and stuff to two lights and

barn Doors and all that are the kind of
good stuff.

The nice thing about a clams is they
tend to have a little bit more grip,

so they can hold on to things pretty
strongly for the most part.

And so a bag of these, a box of these,
a bin of these, whatever, you've got to

do really super handy to have

these lying around.

The next one we're going to talk about,
this is called a mafer clamp, or a

superclamp, depending upon

which word you want to use.

These come in a couple different
configurations.

So some of them will have this big,
spindly

thing on the back, which is a lot
easier to use.

Sometimes you'll see two of these kind
of t shaped knobs.

I happen to think that these are a
little bit easier to use,

but just a matter of personal
preference.

And you would use a math or clamp, very
commonly,

like on the top of a c stand, to put a
pole or a bar into.

So think of, you've got a piece of
seamless.

You would put this right on the top of
a c stand.

I'm going to grab a sea sand, just so
you can see what that looks like.

I will talk more about this in just a
second.

But this basically goes right on top.

You open it up,

you put the bar in,

you tighten it down, and it allows you
to keep grip on poles.

This is pretty commonly used for that.

Now, the thing about the way a mafro
clamp works

is usually there is a release button
and a latch on the side for the bottom.

And it puts a little locking mechanism

in here that basically keeps this
attached

to the c stand that it is on.

So even though it's loose, it's not
coming off, once it's on,

you tight it down from the back, and
it's very stable.

So that's what a mafer or a superclamp
does

use for holding poles, but

honestly, not necessarily

forget poles.

We are going to use one

during the first shoot, where it's
holding a flashlight.

So it holds things, things that are
usually a little bit bigger,

that are not

pins.

So pins being like

this kind of a thing,

there's all different kinds of
modifiers,

grip grip tools that are meant to work
with pins.

But a lot of times you're like, well, I
got a hold,

I don't know,

I got a hold, a piece of chicken over
here, hanging in.

Whatever it is.

Like, it can be any irregular thing.

The mafroclamp is a really good tool to
hold, kind of a regular, slightly

larger objects

moving kind of in that route.

This is called a quacker clamp, or a
duck bill, or a platipus clamp, as you

can see, why

it's this big old thing right here.

And basically,

it's a standard kind of vice grip on
the end of it, mounted to one of these.

And the idea is

it can hold really large things,

clamps down.

This fits into whatever mount you need
to hold it to.

Like, what would I ever use this for?

Well, let's say you've got not a v
flat, but you have a panel of

either white or black

phone cord, right?

Instead of setting up a whole v flat,
you put this on clamp.

It

attached this to a c stand, and it
takes up a lot less space.

Or maybe you don't necessarily want

a whole big piece of foam core, because
you need a little reflector

right underneath your subject's face.

This works as a way to hold that
reflector,

and very cheaply and stablely can hold.

That's

a quacker plan.

So

this is a useful one.

It's a little bit more obscure

for, I think photographers.

I don't think a lot of photographers
own these, have them, or even know

about em, but it's very handy to have

in certain situations.

This one, this is called a cartiliny
clamp.

Matthews also makes one.

They call it a micallinic lamp.

It's the same same thing.

This is a tremendously

useful clamp.

I use this

quite often,

and it's

just spins back to adjust

how wide it can grip.

And then obviously, you tighten it down
and it

closes it, right?

The rubber is kind of coming off a
little bit.

They're usually a rubber line on the
inside, so that you can grip something

without damaging it by pressing metal
into it really hard.

One of my favorite ways to use

a cartalini clamp

is, I will put this

on a c stand,

and I will actually use a background

that is mounted to like a canvas
background.

When it's already mounted to pvc.

I clamp it right in the middle.

And then I don't need to set up a whole
huge background stand to put up a

background light.

I put this above.

I clamp this to the top of the roll,
right in the middle.

It balances, hangs down.

No background stand visible in the shot,

and it just hangs right in front of the
c stand.

So really useful way to use these.

But again, you can use them

in a wide variety of ways.

A lot of the same things you can use
this for, you can also use this for.

So

cartalinis also come in different
sizes, there's big one, small ones,

ones with really long

poles on them.

So, you know, this can come to a
variety of different

sizes, big one, small ones, and
everything in between.

So I guess these are probably

the most

commonly used clamps

for me.

And again, in different sizes,

this will allow you to hold a zillion
things up