Summary
This video walks through our creation of a custom rainbow rig designed for an Atlanta Hawks commercial in collaboration with Copycat Films. Originally intended to be built with truss, we get creative with the use of speed rail for a practical solution that's easy on the budget.
Transcription
00:00
Friends over at Copycat Films reached out to us about building a rainbow rig for a Hawks commercial. This is what we came up with. I do wanna say if anybody ever has a special rig that they wanna build, whether it's out of truss or out of speed rail, square stock, just come here to Film Speed. We have all the equipment, we have all the gear. We'll put our hands in the mix and we'll help you get it figured out. This, originally we wanted to build out of truss, but this is just for a DSLR camera and unfortunately the budget on the shoot wouldn't allow for a truss rig.
00:31
So we just built one out of speed rail. If you're gonna do this yourself, it took us a little while to get the rig kind of balanced out and figure out where we wanted our heights and our kickers and everything. But this is actually a really, really good stable rig. It's doing really good smooth shots. We tested this, we put 17 pounds out on the end and two ball busters on the other end and everything works smooth. I would say that the limit on this rig is probably about 20 pounds.
00:59
the head. Once you get past that you're probably gonna have to go to some kind of truss rig whether it's a modern truss makers or or box truss. The way that we built this is we have two cheese plates here that you would find like on a hood mount. Let's have the sliders. We bolted these bearing blocks to the cheese plates and then we built a small frame around the outside and we have two big bends.
01:26
here in the ends that go into low boys. And this is kind of nice because you can adjust the height of the rig. As far as dimensions go, we've got five foot pipe, five foot pipe, five foot pipe, and then a two footer there. Came here exact size of these kickers here, but they're roughly five feet as well. The final iteration of this is probably gonna look slightly different. We're gonna do away with this middle pipe. That was part of the first design before we added these outside kickers, really not doing much now.
01:56
just adding some weight and I think we might change a couple of the fittings, make it look a little nicer.
Friends over at Copycat Films reached out to us about building a rainbow rig for a Hawks commercial. This is what we came up with. I do wanna say if anybody ever has a special rig that they wanna build, whether it's out of truss or out of speed rail, square stock, just come here to Film Speed. We have all the equipment, we have all the gear. We'll put our hands in the mix and we'll help you get it figured out. This, originally we wanted to build out of truss, but this is just for a DSLR camera and unfortunately the budget on the shoot wouldn't allow for a truss rig.
00:31
So we just built one out of speed rail. If you're gonna do this yourself, it took us a little while to get the rig kind of balanced out and figure out where we wanted our heights and our kickers and everything. But this is actually a really, really good stable rig. It's doing really good smooth shots. We tested this, we put 17 pounds out on the end and two ball busters on the other end and everything works smooth. I would say that the limit on this rig is probably about 20 pounds.
00:59
the head. Once you get past that you're probably gonna have to go to some kind of truss rig whether it's a modern truss makers or or box truss. The way that we built this is we have two cheese plates here that you would find like on a hood mount. Let's have the sliders. We bolted these bearing blocks to the cheese plates and then we built a small frame around the outside and we have two big bends.
01:26
here in the ends that go into low boys. And this is kind of nice because you can adjust the height of the rig. As far as dimensions go, we've got five foot pipe, five foot pipe, five foot pipe, and then a two footer there. Came here exact size of these kickers here, but they're roughly five feet as well. The final iteration of this is probably gonna look slightly different. We're gonna do away with this middle pipe. That was part of the first design before we added these outside kickers, really not doing much now.
01:56
just adding some weight and I think we might change a couple of the fittings, make it look a little nicer.