[00:00] Have you seen where the C-Stands are at on set? No, where are they? They're right over that way. In case you ever, in case you need them.
[00:16] Today we're going to talk about C-Stands, give you a few little basics into C-Stands and how to use them properly. And then we're probably going to go over some safety always, making sure nobody gets injured or hurt on set.
[00:29] Nothing can fall. Yeah, you don't want that to happen, otherwise you will be fired and someone could die. C-stands, also known as century stands because there's over a hundred things you can do with C-stands.
[00:41] Right here, this is the base, you know, turtle legs and stuff. So you see they're at three different heights. You have a low one all the way to the ground, you have a middle one, you have a tall one. When you set something down, wherever the weight's going to be, you want this big leg
[00:58] to be going out That way all the weight will be pressing out So if you have something heavy up here and you press the leg going to go with it It not going to go If you have it sideways and there nothing here where the leg should be
[01:13] and you push it, it goes down a lot easier. So it's not very safe. So you always want to have your big leg kind of supporting where the weight's going to be. The other main thing to know for C-Stance is that these knuckles,
[01:26] you have to remember righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. When you're standing behind it, the knuckle should always be on the right side. The reason being is when you tighten it, if you have any weight going forward, you know,
[01:38] as though if this is too loose, even if this is loose, someone doesn't tighten it all the way, so a little bit like this, and it starts going forward, it's going to self-tighten itself. That way, it's safe. If something starts to go down, it'll at least stop itself.
[01:50] If you have it the other way, say flip this whole thing around, now it's on my left side. I start pushing it. I start pulling it. how easy it is and it loosens it up and the light or whatever is on there will fall off.
[02:03] So that the main thing you always want to know for C is righty tighty lefty loosey If it on the left left side you have any kind of weight up here it just loosen up and fly off if it out that way
[02:16] The right side, if you have it up and it's going, it tightens up. Righty-tighty lefty-loosey, big legs supporting where the weight's going to be, and always, always, always put sandbags
[02:30] on your C-stands. On the high leg. On the big leg. You have it on the little leg, the sandbag is touching the floor and it's not giving any weight to it. You just slide around. Same
[02:46] thing with this one. This is touching, the bags are still touching the floor, so you're not getting all the weight on the C-stand, you're getting most of the weight on the floor. That's why you want to have it on the big leg. All about center of gravity. Exactly.
[02:59] Center of gravity is physics. So when you're storing a C-stand, you want to soldier them. You put the big leg over the medium leg. You can put 20 of them in a row It be nice and neat and flat instead of having them like this or like that See That ugly Ugly Pretty They line up nice and pretty and everything
[03:27] is all uniform and soldier. So when you're walking with either stands or equipment such as rails and stuff you want to be shouting points, points so people will know and you don't hit them in the face just like that. When you come around corners and stuff, it's
[03:41] most important because people have no idea you're coming. You can also shout free dental because once you hit them in the face, that's what they're going to need. So those are a few little basics about C-Stands. You can use them for anything and everything. It's
[03:55] a grips best friend. It's one of the main things we always use.
[04:07] Thank you.