Quick Tip: Extension Cables

Perhaps you read a previous post on How To Wrap Cables Properly.  On a similar note, here's some advice that is useful both on set and at home.

Extension cables, or "stingers", sometimes have to be run along in a daisy chain to power equipment.  It's frustrating and embarrassing when your chain keeps coming apart, so use this simple trick to hold them together:

5 Essential Terms for a PA

After a handful of gigs, I've picked up some of the basic terminology that's being thrown around on set.  This is beginners info.

I think these are the five most essential phrases to understand:

1. "Ten-one"
2. "Eighty-six"
3. "C-47"
4. "Twenty?"
5. "Points!"

Quick Tip: How to Wrap Cables PROPERLY

Check out this video for two reasons:

1:  It explains how and why you should use the over-under method for wrapping your cables.  I learned how, changed my ways and now my cables look pretty handsome all wrapped up.

2:  Pay attention to how the filmmakers tried to get a multi-cam feel using a single camera.  They also jazzed it up by adding all kinds of panning motion.  At first I was feeling sea-sick, but then it just became funny to me.  Maybe you'll get a laugh out of it, too (whilst learning something).