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

Tue May 1 10:44:23 PDT 2018

How about a Thomas Train on the side track?      Just kidding!

Andy H.

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:49 AM, ACCRS HO Scale <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org>
wrote:

> Message From: Dennis Stokely  dstokely at sbcglobal.net
>
>
> We also need to evaluate cars on sidings and whatever may show in the
> hidden and freight yards.  Only cars that are appropriate for the industry
> should be on any siding, and they should be the best looking of that car
> type that we have.  A number of cars on the layout look a bit ragged.   If
> the camera is going through the hidden and freight yards, the cars on the
> adjacent tracks should be in reasonable era specific trains, not the hodge
> podge that usually exists there.
>
> Dennis
>
>
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> *From:* ACCRS HO Scale <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org>
> *To:* accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 1, 2018 7:07 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Accrs-ho] The Photo Shoot - think about it
>
> I would use club cars to run a modern-era manifest as I always do. I think
> most of them are worthy enough to be in the photo shoot. But I also I have
> my UP Passenger train that I ca put together as well if club cars are
> really not going to be used. We can also showcase switching operations in
> the video shoot too (maybe towards the end) as well as mainline trains.
>
>  - Jamie
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 30, 2018, at 9:22 PM, ACCRS HO Scale <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org>
> wrote:
>
> Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis  lewis2 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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