Don't want to look like an idiot your first day on set? Jerkwater is here to save the day, risking his personal career to dish the dirt you'd normally learn on the job. Did you know that the "C" in "C-Stand" stands for "Century?

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All right you guys going to learn how to use a C stand. It is the most versatile thing that grips an electric’s have in their arsenal. Now, let us get to it. You get to use this here piece of get rid everything from out bringing a light. Flying a flag, pulling a bloom baler or shot gun might. Positioning foam core or big board or show card. And we put one of this down I have said when your D and E brothers should be right there with the sand bag, if you do not have one right next to you after this. The stand is composed of the main unit. A two and a half inch double headed. A four-inch gobble arm, Now here is the kicker, got to know how to tighten it down. What size did do it from and which way they rotate. To keep yourself form looking like an idiot, remember that downward way on the wrong side will cause the arm to loosen and fall, and you tighten the knuckle, do yourself from behind the stand using your right hand. Now the ridy tidy left you loosy. So if you gather once, you can put a 2 x 3 silk right up in front of this thing to cut down some little light. Here are some few ways you can do it. [Music playing] And there you go, now you would not look like monkey with violent if in lang you ever do find yourself on my set, [Echo voice] Secret set speak. You got to run of the piss? Here is how are doing. You can say 10-1 or 10-100, I mean 500 break usually rest room. This means cover me and this just mates, I got to go and take a piss. [Music playing]