Grip equipment

- The key grip is the cinematographer's primary advisor…for set safety.…So, most of the equipment that the key grip uses…is intended to enhance the safety on the set.…We want to make sure that the C-stands don't fall,…so we have sandbags on them.…We want to make sure that no one gets hurt or cut…by arms that might be jetting out,…so we have tennis balls at the ends of those stands.…Now, the other part of the grip responsibility,…and that we have equipment for,…is to control the light,…to enhance the quality of the lighting.…

Remember, it's just as important where the light…doesn't go as where it does.…I had a key grip tell me one time,…gaffers make light, grips make shadows.…Okay, so one of the things we want to be careful about…are boom shadows.…The grips will also use equipment to make sure…that we can control the light in such a way…that we don't adverse the effect,…the booms that are being used in narrative film making…for a sound.…Okay, so our next area is camera movement,…and that's also a grip responsibility,…