[Accrs-ho] The Photo Shoot - think about it

[ACCRS HO Scale]

Mike, John Kolberg, and I talked about the HO side on Friday and we will 
need more than one train set up, although only a few will run for the 
shoot.  We don't want the background trains to be dusty, clunky, club 
stuff so we do need nice trains.  However, they must be 
prototypical!!!!!  If they are to be run they better have been proven on 
the layout before the shoot.  If they haven't been on the rails of the 
club, don't bring them except for maybe back ground, like a couple 
trains in the station.

Gary


On 4/30/2018 9:22 PM, ACCRS HO Scale wrote:
> Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.net
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> Members,
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> Did any of you read Andy's post below.  The shoot is to show the best 
> of our club.   If I understand the shoot, the process would be to take 
> ONE train around the layout and narrate as it goes along.   For each 
> spot chosen on the layout, there will be camera set-up, time running 
> the train chosen to film and this my take several takes.  There will 
> not be a whole lot of everyone running a train as it will take time 
> for the filming of each train or trains selected.  Whereas you may 
> have some special loco or car you would like to run, it may, or maybe 
> most likely, not fit in to the filming process.  It would not be 
> surprised if club cars, etc, are not even used.
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> We are attempting to show off the best of the club.  The number of 
> trains needed may not be all that many.
> Think about it.
>
> Dean
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>>>> *Hello all*
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>>>> *Thank you for all that showed up Friday and Saturday to clean the 
>>>> layout in preparation for the photo shoot with TSG Multimedia. 
>>>> Regrettably I was not able to show either day due to work and 
>>>> getting ready for a business trip that I will be on all next week, 
>>>> coming home on Saturday (the day of the photo shoot). *
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>>>> *Just a reminder, this is a photo shoot that has the very real 
>>>> potential to be seen world wide!  Who ever is showing up that 
>>>> Saturday to help with this great endeavor please bring your best 
>>>> running AND best appearing equipment.  We need to make our club 
>>>> look good, no missing hand rails, lights working, appropriate paint 
>>>> and so on.  The operating rules will be in affect, run 
>>>> prototypically.  By prototypically I mean run scale appropriate 
>>>> speeds, appropriate equipment and so on.  I have learned that when 
>>>> I am taking video of my trains, sometimes what looks good to the 
>>>> eye turns out to be warp speed on film. To quote Space Balls 
>>>> "They've gone plad!"  So please no "plad" trains.   Whatever your 
>>>> power is, run equipment behind it that is appropriate for that era. 
>>>> There are guide lines as far as era is concerned in the operating 
>>>> rules that have been voted in. *
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>>>> *Follow the photographers' instructions, I am sure most of us have 
>>>> seen their videos before, they are good at what they do. _Assume 
>>>> that when they are there it is not going to be a free run. _ Odds 
>>>> are trains will be staged and run on cues for the sake of the 
>>>> video, in other words held off camera and on the given cue run it 
>>>> through the shot, but above all listen to instruction, the shots 
>>>> are planned, our trains are now actors. The videos I have seen, 
>>>> follow one train around the layout with a few meets thrown in.  
>>>> That one train NEEDS to run well with ideally no issues.*
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>>>> *Who ever is showing Saturday for the shoot, I have herd that the 
>>>> shoot is starting at 10.  Please show up at 9 if you can to set up 
>>>> and clean track.  If you have a track cleaner in your train make 
>>>> sure it is in good working order, looks respectable, AND is era 
>>>> appropriate!  Remember we are trying to replicate the real world.*
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>>>> *Andrew K.*
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>>>> *KJ6DTQ*
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