[caption id="attachment_2626" align="alignleft" width="365"] Brett Frey, first assistant cameraman on location in Miami with MPR.[/caption]
Your camera will be the star of your production equipment rental package. Whichever one you choose to use, it will set the tone for nearly everything and anything else on your list. The lenses. The lights. The stands. The dollies. The filters. It’s likely to even impact your choice of sound equipment. So, needless to say, we advise you carefully consider all your options before deciding which one is best …
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The Essential Movie Equipment List for Getting Great Moving Shots on Your Next Project in Florida
Don’t wait until post-production to solve problems that should be addressed in pre-production. Hasty planning can often result in expensive reshoots. Making sure you have the right gear on-set can save you precious time and money. Of course, you’re going to put a lot of thought into the technical aspects of your production, like which camera, lighting kits, and sound equipment you’ll need. But when you’re planning your movie equipment rental, it’s essential to consider the accessories that will complement such gear. According to many …
Ten Things to Know About Insurance Before Renting Film Equipment in Florida
Before renting film equipment, you’ll need production insurance to protect it against loss, theft, or damage. Here are ten things you should know about that coverage.
1) Safety First
If anything goes wrong during production, there will be a whole lot of people pointing fingers at you, the producer. While there’s not much you can do about stormy weather or clashing egos, quality production insurance is one of the few ways you can protect yourself financially against incidentals that ultimately plague every set. So if you think you need it, g …
How to Get Insurance for Film Equipment Rental in Florida
As with many career paths, producing films is an endeavor where you’ll learn a lot more on the job than you will in a classroom. Still, there are certain aspects of the work that can be acquired as effectively by reading as they can be by doing. One of them is the different kinds of insurance you’ll need to cover your film equipment rental. Film equipment rental insurance will prove to be your best safety net in the event the equipment you rent is damaged or destroyed. The question is, how do you get that insurance?
STEP 1: The Basics
Firs …
What Kind of Insurance Protects Rental Filmmaking Equipment in Florida?
You’re preparing to produce a film. You know you’ve got a great script and a talented cast. You’ve got the crew and the locations to pull it off. You’re set up to rent filmmaking equipment. Plus, you know that you’ll need insurance to protect the production if any equipment is lost, stolen, or damaged. But what you may not know is the kind of coverage you’ll need to do that.
1) GENERAL LIABILITY
The most basic of all premiums, getting general liability coverage, is always the first step in protecting your production and a must-have …
Why you Need Insurance for Film Equipment in Florida
Just like competent assistants know what their bosses need before they need it, good producers know how to solve problems with their film equipment rental before they arise. And when it comes to film production, issues always occur no matter the size of the budget nor the proficiency of the crew. And while there’s nothing you can do to prevent them from happening, there are things y …
How To Easily Solve Your Pre-Production Problems
Most film equipment rental houses only rent equipment, and call it a day. But when it comes to film pre-production, there’s a myriad of things from location scouting to crew sourcing that can create problems and add to your load. Especially if you’re taking your production to another state, where you aren’t familiar with the ropes… all of a sudden everything seems more complicated.
Luckily, there’s a new model of film equipment rental house: the rental house that solves your problems by going above and beyond regular duties.
Emerging from p …
Spotlight on the Dedolight 4-light Kit – Everything You Want to Know
Extremely compact yet providing high light output, the Dedolight 4-light is the perfect solution when you need to supplement or extend natural light on your shoot.
Compact and well-engineered lighting system
Our Dedolight rental kit is centered around the DLH4 light head. It includes four 150w lamps that provide exceptional economy and outstanding life expectancy. The incredible control and output from these lights make them like no other compact light fixture. They far surpass the traditional studio light concept with Fresnel lenses. Unlike …
Five Essential Things They Don’t Teach You in Film School
You did well in film school. You’ve always been a film nerd, proud of your creative self and confident about making it big as a filmmaker. And then one day ….poof! Your confidence suddenly tanked as you entered the real world of filmmaking. If this story sounds similar, you’re not alone. Film schools are great for learning the tools and techniques, but they don’t prepare you for the realities of the industry and the art of production services.
Not until you start professional filmmaking, will you realize how much they didn’t teach you …
Your Guide to a Stress-free Fort Myers Film Production
One of the things we enjoy most about shooting in Fort Myers and Southwest Florida is that so very little film production has reached this area. This translates into a warm, friendly openness to film production just about anywhere in Fort Myers. Folks here are not cynical about film production and still believe that shooting and still photography are excellent ideas. But, that being said, there’s also not a lot of film production infrastructure or video production manpower in Lee County and Fort Myers. So, you …