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The art of Dolly Gripping is like no other job in the world. It falls to us to work out the mechanics of a particular shot, as well as offer a smooth, aesthetically pleasing move which makes the shot work and delivers emotion to the scene. It's the ultimate blend of engineering and art. This website is a place for professionals in motion picture camera platform movement to meet and swap tips, stories, and gripe a little about the difficulties we often face, but rarely get to talk about among ourselves. It's also a place for aspiring Dolly Grips to learn a little something from the old pros. So, welcome. Look around and join our little community. The site is run by myself, D, and Azurgrip, two guys who have each spent the last 20 years moving cameras around film sets. But it also benefits from the readership and participation of hundreds of Dolly and Key Grips from around the world, men and women who have helped deliver some of the most memorable and beautiful moving shots on film. So if you have any questions, please ask. You can ask questions or make comments on our message forum, which is below, just above the photos, or email us at dollygrippery at gmail dot com. We, or one of the experienced grips who frequent this site will answer.
If you're looking for something in particular, please check out the "Links" section. Everything from equipment in India, to glamour shots of grips can be found there.
What you won't find here: How to make a dolly out of plywood, info on the Wa11y Dolly, anything about how to move a boat.
If you're looking for something in particular, please check out the "Links" section. Everything from equipment in India, to glamour shots of grips can be found there.
What you won't find here: How to make a dolly out of plywood, info on the Wa11y Dolly, anything about how to move a boat.
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- Film Toolkit
- William Demeritt's Blog -A lot of good stuff from a Camera Operator
- The Black and Blue
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- Hurlbut Visuals
- Chapman- This is my machine of choice.
- Gripworks- Anything you need in India, or beyond
- The Gentlemen Grips- I've been with these guys for over 15 years
- Burnette Creative
- Blood, Sweat, and Tedium
- The Hills Are Burning
- Filmcast Live
- Crew and Review
- Lenses and Lights
- Chris Brow's Website
- Chapman
- GI Track- Great track system. Check it out!
- Grip411
- JL Fisher
- polybloggimous
- Danworx
- The Anonymous Production Assistant
- Supersliders
- Oliver Stapleton BSC
- Cranium
- Griplife
- Script Goddess
- Electric and Grip
- Solid Grip Systems
- Cinemoves
- Porta Jib- Get your Porta-Glides here. I recommend 'em!
- Local 80- Chris Hager Photographs. The members of Local 80 Grips like you've never seen them before. A really cool site!
- Hurry Up and Wait
- Burbanked
- totally unauthorized
- JL Fisher
- Seriocity
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12 comments:
pictures of that would be stellar, if you have them.
I would, normally without a second thought. The start paperwork on this show, however, was a half-inch thick stack of security warnings and confidenciality agreements and warnings about cameraphones. It's also early in the show and I don't know any of these people.
Where are you shooting?
-DW
hi guys
sorry to leave this message on this post but if you are like me you only read the last thing posted some dolly grips might have a short attention span.
any way i am thinking of purchasing speedwheels from modern studio what do you think
Hi Anonymous, Personally, I don't like the Moderns. It's not the skates over all, it's the flat spots.. They may have overcome this in the last couple of years, I don't know. I do know that a couple of years ago, my key bought a set of Moderns and they promised him they wouldn't flatten.... guess what? Flat spots. I use Porta-glides that I've had for a couple of years and I love them. Never a flat spot and they've held up well on several features in harsh locations. Take a look at portajib.com. (No, Porta jib isn't giving me anything, I just love the wheels). Otherwise, a lot of dolly grips use Moderns every day and think they're great. I would check out different sets first, though.
Hi DW, We're at Sony.
regarding the modern skate wheels, they make a set with soft wheels that gets flat spots very quickly if the dolly sits still, and a harder set that still gets flat spots but not as quickly. if i were investing in a new personal set i think the porta-glides are the way to go; willy's widgets makes a nice set as well
D-
Sony in NYC?
When I emailed with Losmandy this spring, they told me they were redesigning the Porta Glides and didn't know when they would be ready.
Personally, I'd like to see a combination of Losmandy's 2-sized wheels and Fisher's articulating clear-gel wheels. I think that these two great ideas put together would make a great set of skate wheels.
-DW
he Guys,
regarding the "modern-slider" wheels, a and all other wheels and their specs. I have been doing tests from 78a grade til 98a grade hardness in all kind of ways.
SOFT Wheels can be very smooth for uneven bumpey tracks, they take up the vibrations and make no noise. They have flat spots after a while and needs to be exchanged often since the sand will be swallowed by the soft layer. Their softness although makes it possible to have a tolerance of approx. 2mm in you track-gauge.
The hard-wheels do make sound, catch-up dust and dirt very easily in a recognizable way, but will have no flat spots. with some maintainence you can use them on a very long base.
If you have the ability to make a line up in your rigs with a combination of hard and softwheels it is mostly recommended... The flat bumps on the softwheels will be taken over by the sound of the hard wheels untill the softwheels are straighten out.
No native english speaker but hopefully understandable.
Good Luck,
Onno
Dw- we are at Sony in LA.
Onno- Thanks for the info from your tests,
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