Backdrop/background system, what was it called?

Tizer said:
builders plasterboard props, 2 for £25 work a treat for uprights.
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Have both these & autopoles. Would use the platerboard props for a reflector, speedlight or muslin background, but certainly not to support the weight of a 9ft paper background roll, they flex too much. (even if the ceiling doesn't)
 
TG. said:
He does make it look easy, however, he is in quite a large sized room, with nothing around, a different ball game when their are TVs, sofas and other objects in the way, and you in a 12x14 room, i always seem to have trouble folding mine, i think i have only done it straight off a few times the way he did it, the other downside is sometimes the frame can get twisted, and then you have to mess about putting that right, although their is a youtube video of how to untwist it too.
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Yeah I see what you're saying, I will be practising folding my collapsible background in my own front room so will no doubt find it more difficult than he makes it look. Hopefully though out of the 3 ways on the video I must be able to find one of them easier than the way I am doing it now! At the moment I think it's more luck than judgement that gets it folded in the end. Hence why I can't face the ideas of getting anything like that again! Plus after seeing the auto poles I like the look of them, esp as you're not so limited on the floor space too then.
 
SpikeB said:
Have both these & autopoles. Would use the platerboard props for a reflector, speedlight or muslin background, but certainly not to support the weight of a 9ft paper background roll, they flex too much. (even if the ceiling doesn't)
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yeah that can do, still a useful cheap alternative, you can get black / aluminium ones which don't look out of place in the slightest.

Just throwing it out there :)
 
amumonamission said:
Apparently you can buy things to go on the end of the poles to protect the ceilings.
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The covers will only stop the autoploes marking a ceiling.

Autopoles are brilliant if used with concrete ceilings,
the cam system exerts more than enough force to crack a "normal" platerboard ceiling & even if you can line them up on joists they can still cause damage.
I've doneit - though it was my house so half an hour & a bit of polyfiller it was fixed.

Going into a client's home you have no idea of the integrity of the ceiling.
 
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