You're going to wanna know how to protect floors when you're on a shoot, so it doesn't
cost you $1200 and someone accidentally scratches the floor.
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Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan.
Today on Slanted Lens we're gonna show you ways you can protect floors when you go into
a client's house to shoot.
It's a psychological advantage for you to roll out paper to put booties on, do all those
things that going to make your client feel like, "Oh, they're gonna to take care of me."
They feel more comfortable the minute you walk in.
They feel more comfortable with you invading their space.
And your day's gonna to go a lot better.
So, let's take a look at some of 'em.
First off, I'm gonna use some kind of craft paper.
You can get this at Home Depot in the painting area.
It's just a simple thin paper, they use it to roll out on the floor, you take blue tape
and you tape it down, so you'll be able to use it there, it's easy to tear and to put
into place, but it's not super thick.
If you're gonna be at a house for several days and you're going to hauling heavy equipment
into the house you really should put down Ram Boards.
Some owners will insist upon it.
Ram Board is just simply a heavy cardboard, much heavier than the paper, much heavier
than the paper.
There's also a product called layout board that is even much heavier than this.
And some productions when they're going to be in the house for a long time will put layout
board all through the house so the floors are protected.
The last thing you want is to finish your production and have scratches on the floor.
Sometimes you want to put this up even onto the wall, the light paper if you got an area
where people are gonna be brushing up against.
Using the blue tape, though, you got to be a little bit careful, we put it on some hardwood
floors, on some steps and the place we were at, when we pulled the blue tape up it pulled
all the paint off from the floors right along where we taped it.
Which is one of the reasons that my favorite thing is just to give the whole crew booties
and I expect them to put them on when they're in the house and take them off when they leave
the house.
This is the easiest way as far as being able to get set up quickly.
Because the problem with these two products is that it takes you a long time to lay 'em
out and to get 'em into place.
So, at the beginning of the day, you got somebody laying paper and taping and so you got all
that work to do before you can start and get into the house.
And then at the end of the day, you got to pull all that paper up and you've gotta dispose
of it.
And by the way, when you pull this paper up, don't wad it into a big bundle because it
just gets bigger and bigger and bigger, roll it back up even if you're gonna throw it away.
Roll it back up.
It stores much quicker.
It rolls up quicker.
And when you haul it away it's a lot easier to dispose of it.
So, I prefer these but sometimes you should put a piece of tape with a sign on it that
says, "Put your booties on," and so the crew actually has to hit the sign in their face
as they walk in so that it'll remind them to put their booties on.
Now, you can always use the tried and true, the old faithful standby and that is furniture
blankets.
On our truck, we have a whole pile of furniture blankets so we can lay these down on the floor,
we can quickly put a camera on the corner that we don't have Ram Board or paper down,
we'll simply put a furniture pad there, put a camera on it, we can go to work quickly
and then we can pull it up and move on to the next place.
We use paper all the time when we're on a green screen or a cove.
If it's all painted and clean and pristine then we're going to lay paper out everywhere
that we're gonna walk until we get everything set up and then we'll pull the paper when
it comes time to shoot.
You'd use the booties in that situation all the time when you're out on that white set,
say, "Okay.
You can get on the white set if you got your booties on.
You can get on the green screen as long as you've got your booties on."
The other thing I do with talent when they walk out on the set on a green screen or a
white cove, to be able to protect the floors, is I simply take a damp rag and I wash their
shoes before they walk out there, and make sure they're very clean.
So, there's several products I would use if I was going to protect floors and protect
the house when we go into someone's house.
I put these things down in my own home when we go to shoot to make sure that it's protected.
If I'm gonna have mud and things going on, I want to lay some of these things down to
protect the high traffic areas.
So, some tips on keeping your floor safe or keeping your client's floors safe which is
even more important.
So, keep those cameras rolling and keep on clicking.
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