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

[ACCRS HO Scale]

BTW, the "O" scale shoot starts at 10 and it's been suggested that the 
HO not show up until later, like 11-12, so there is not a lot of 
background noise during the "O" scale shoot.

Gary


On 4/30/2018 9:58 PM, Gary Lewis wrote:
>
> 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 Lewislewis2 at earthlink.net
>>
>>
>>
>> Members,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Hello all*
>>>>> **
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> **
>>>>> *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). *
>>>>> **
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> **
>>>>> *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. *
>>>>> **
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> **
>>>>> *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.*
>>>>> **
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> **
>>>>> *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.*
>>>>> **
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> **
>>>>> **
>>>>> *Andrew K.*
>>>>> **
>>>>> *KJ6DTQ*
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
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