Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan.
Today on the Slanted Lens we're gonna talk about another kit that we have on our truck.
It's just a kit full of fishing line and the accouterments you need to be able to make
it work.
Let's take a look at those and see what we got.
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So let's take a look at how we use fishing line on set.
First off for stills I use it to give you the sense of motion even though it's stills.
Using it to fly a scarf, a person's tie, pull up a person's dress so it'll catch the wind
and it'll flow out backwards behind them.
I've done that a lot.
In the beginning of my career, we suspended everything.
There was no Photoshop.
There was no re-touching, so every single object we had in the shot was suspended, like
this lady who's blowing into the room.
Every single thing in these images has been suspended with fishing line and there is no
re-touching.
It's just the way it was.
First off, the most important thing we have in our box is fishing line of course.
We have brown, and we have clear, and we have got kind of a greenish color.
Most people think of fishing line as clear.
But lemme tell you, the most useful item on set is a brown fishing line.
This is hung up with four, four-pound test fishing line.
Four-pound test just means it'll hold up about four pounds, that it'll take a four-pound
jerk basically, it'll expand just a little bit.
The reason I like the brown over the clear is for a very obvious reason.
That is in the photographic situation, or on set doing video, the clear looks like just
a big streak line.
It is much harder to hide, so it's much easier to use brown.
There are times though on a white wall in a white set like this, where I maybe would
want to use the clear, and not use the brown, so I have both.
Actually my third is kind of this greenish color which is really nice in some situations
because it's more of a camouflage-looking line and will hide in the different backgrounds
depending on the color of the background and what's going on.
Another thing we have in this kit is we have all kinds of glue.
This is a super-glue, Hot Stuff by Super T. So Hot Stuff has three types of glue.
This is a special T which is made for filling gaps.
They have a light, or kind of a thin that doesn't fill as many gaps, and they've got
a medium.
I use the heavy duty stuff.
I squirt this on and then I use an accelerator, and the accelerator just sprays on.
When it sprays on to this glue it makes the glue harden and it hardens immediately.
I have a hot glue gun because it's very simple to suspend things with hot glue.
Now, hot glue when you squirt it on to an object like this is just gonna take so long
to dry that it's impossible to work with.
So the second thing I do is I always have canned air.
Because when I turn that canned air upside down, I get a really cold blast and I can
freeze my hot glue and it solidifies immediately and I can move on.
I don't have to wait for it to harden.
One of my favorite ways to attach the fishing line to something on set is to simply tie
the fishing line to the back end of a safety pin.
That safety pin now, as you tie the fishing line on the back of it, gives the ability
to open it up and to pin it on to a tie or a dress or a scarf and then you simply pin
it on and close it, roll it back to a clothes pin or a little piece of wood or something
to be able to wrap the line to, the person can hold to be able to see it, to be able
to work it a little easier.
And that makes it a lot easier to work on set.
So a couple more things that are in this kit...always want a pair of scissors so you can cut the
fishing line really quickly and easily.
I always, always have several Sharpies, different colors and different sizes of Sharpies.
If I get into a situation where the fishing line is just showing or doing a little video
move and we're seeing the fishing line is kinda glowing too much, I'll just take a sharpie
and I'll just go up there and I'll just simply paint it out and it's gone.
The reason I have so many different options is because every single situation is gonna
be different and you've gotta get your fishing line attached to something somewhere somehow
and you can't predict it.
So just go to the store, get different double-stick tapes, and earthquake putty, and safety pins,
and clothespins, and create a kit that gives you the option that when you're standing there
you're going, "I've got what I need to be able to make that happen."
You don't have to go, "I've gotta run to the store."
I may have all these things in other places on the truck but what I want is when I say,
"We've gotta fly this scarf," is they run to the truck, they grab one kit, and it's
all right there.
They don't have to go looking for canned air, looking for this, and try to grab everything
into their arms, bring it in.
I wanna grab this one kit, bring it in, got everything we need, we make it happen, it
flies and we're going on.
So there you have it.
That's what's in my tackle box, my fishing tackle box on the truck.
Not for actually fishing, but for suspending.
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