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Keeping cables safe

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Keeping cables safe

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Before we shoot, let's take the time to tie a few things down and role some cables, so we don't have any accidents. I'm going to start from the camera and work my way back. So working over here, I'm just going to take the slack and coil this loosely. I don't want to tie this off, because that's going to create tension. But I can go ahead and just loosely coil the cable. Alternating my hands as I go. And just pull that slack in. That worked well. And I'll just take it down to the ground here, and set it down. Now, I don't need to tape that down. It's going to stay put. Because I'm going to be moving the camera around a lot, I don't want to have to worry about un-taping it, but that's pretty fine. Let's take some gaffer's tape here and tape down some of the things that aren't going to be moving. So I'll start here, with power supply and we could just bundle that up a little. Let's tuck these cords underneath. Here we go. Put that down. And by taking a simple strip of gaffer's tape…

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