C-Stands | How to use them properly

Dapper Gaffer 004 - C-Stand crash course. Best practices, what to buy, what to avoid.
There are a lot of ways to use a C-stand - there are also a lot of ways to use them incorrectly. Follow along to feel more confident walking on to your next film set.


Chapters
00:00 Intro
0:29 Quality vs cheap C-Stands
4:22 Types of C-Stands and their strengths
9:07 Staging
10:19 Chrome vs Black
11:58 How to properly set C-Stands
14:50 Bagging stands
17:09 Pet peeve
18:27 Configuring the way that makes the most sense
23:19 Best practice to avoid mistakes
24:28 Setting floppies
27:06 Collapsing stands
30:20 The hand-off
31:10 Swing crews (yes, I use C-Stands all the time and sometimes I put lights on them)
32:23 An actual light stand (the Beefy Baby)
33:47 Ok, lets mount a light on a C-stand
37:43 Helping out the sound dept.
39:02 Outro