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

[ACCRS HO Scale]

We have one in O scale!!!

On Tue, May 1, 2018, 10:44 AM ACCRS HO Scale <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org>
wrote:

> Message From: Andrew Herrera  czephyr1949 at gmail.com
>
> 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
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *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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