Assess Wk1 - Plinth = Milk crate of the art world

Now that my assessment for Video is done and the majority of non-major tasks are behind me, I decided today to chase up plinths again...

Today I went from Build My Own to covered Milk Crates to Build My Own... this is what I've decided to do.

On the milk crate idea... I had considered these previously but I was concerned about stability.  I went to Music School Cafe who said I could borrow the 23 crates I'd need from their stash... Unfortunately, they'd been recently collected and had none... I called Capital Chilled Foods who collect them and they stated categorically that they do not lend them out... that I should try Scholle, the company they purchase them from... I checked their website... it became too hard so I went to Bunnings instead.



So, design-wise...

Plinth design sketches/calculations

1)
Four sides plus a top at about 1200 high, 30-40cm wide...  I found the following at Bunnings:

Dressed Pine: 1200 x 290 x 19 = $13.18
((6 x 4) + 2) x $13.18 = $342.68

Melamine White: 1200 x 295 x 16 = $7.30
((6 x 4) + 2) x $7.30 = $189.90

2)
New Design... 3 sides, one top...
Melamine White: 1200 x 295 x 16 = $7.30

((6 x 3) + 2) x $7.30 = $160.60

Worried about stability, being weighted wrong...

3)

Only two sides but a top and bottom with brackets for bracing...

((6 x 2) + 4) x $7.30 = $116.80

Decided design

Now, that's only for the panels, not screws and brackets... But it's looking much more affordable.

Just want to run the design past a few others before I start construction... hopefully tomorrow.

"DIY PVC skater dolly" by Martin Taylor

Awesome invention on like cool:

Jar Set Shoot #1

Here is the layout of the first set built to create my jar animations.

I tried to incorporate the concept of the lighting tent but due to a lack of a lazy susan (and not wanting to pay $40 for one) I went budget.  It involves, a curled up piece of paper for background (without edges), a metal frame drilled and fixed to a plastic breadboard, a platform made of a sticky-tape dispenser inside, a shoelace, 3CD's, tape a Blu-tak (shown below) which attaches via a drilled hole in the breadboard surrounded by another CD, baking paper wrapped round the top and sides and three spotlights tied to my tripod with shoelaces above the baking paper.

Jar within my lighting tent.

Side-view showing curled paper backdrop.

Close-up of the rotating platform (with 10 degree outline for still movie test.

My home made "lazy suzan".

The resultant video produced with this method left a lot to be desired, particularly from a wobble perspective.  I'll post the video, and what it looked like after post soon...

On a side note, this video is of one of the jars but using still images rather than video... You can see my template with every 10 degrees showing but worth a look anyway: