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Gain the essential skills of a professional grip to become the jack and master of all trades on any movie or television show set. This new edition has been fully updated and revised and will enable aspiring and professional grips to discover vital insider tips ranging from how to operate cutting-edge rigging and lighting equipment to performing difficult camera mounts on aircraft, boats, trains, and cars.Seasoned Hollywood grip Michael G. Uva teaches you to install, set up, maintain, and ensure the safety of all equipment on a set, such as C-stands, cameras, and any specialty gear needed for a shoot. Expanded content on navigating the set, including set etiquette and how to succeed as a technical crew member, will jump-start your career and make you a valuable asset on any film or television crew. This seventh edition has been updated to include the latest technology, further explanations of equipment and how to use it for those new to the role, a new chapter on working as a grip on virtual sets. Other features include technical expertise on maintaining the latest and greatest filmmaking equipment; a self-test section containing over one hundred questions and answers; a comprehensive appendix containing a robust glossary of insider and equipment terms; and guidelines on what a grip has to be physically able to perform in their day-to-day duties.The book is ideal for the aspiring or working grip to use on the role, as well as aspiring students looking to break into the industry.

Gain the essential skills of a professional grip to become the jack and master of all trades on any movie or television show set. This new edition has been fully updated and revised and will enable aspiring and professional grips to discover vital insider tips ranging from how to operate cutting-edge rigging and lighting equipment to performing difficult camera mounts on aircraft, boats, trains, and cars.Seasoned Hollywood grip Michael G. Uva teaches you to install, set up, maintain, and ensure the safety of all equipment on a set, such as C-stands, cameras, and any specialty gear needed for a shoot. Expanded content on navigating the set, including set etiquette and how to succeed as a technical crew member, will jump-start your career and make you a valuable asset on any film or television crew. This seventh edition has been updated to include the latest technology, further explanations of equipment and how to use it for those new to the role, a new chapter on working as a grip on virtual sets. Other features include technical expertise on maintaining the latest and greatest filmmaking equipment; a self-test section containing over one hundred questions and answers; a comprehensive appendix containing a robust glossary of insider and equipment terms; and guidelines on what a grip has to be physically able to perform in their day-to-day duties.The book is ideal for the aspiring or working grip to use on the role, as well as aspiring students looking to break into the industry.

Square Head With an I.Q. not much higher than "Forest Gump," Michael has seemed to "make it " from high school dropout, to world traveler, and now, an Author. Authors Note: This book started out as a journal for my grandkids. I wanted them to know who I really am. (Who really knows their grandparents?) Currently, they only know me as "Papa." I like that. I like being a papa. I like being known as the chubby little gray haired old man who works in the movie business. One grandchild, Jessica, once said to me, "Papa, you're not like my friends' papas', you're a little weird, but a cool weird." She then told me that I reminded her of Peter Pan; the boy who never grew up - just an older version now. I like that as well. My other grandkids, Rumor and Riley, call me "Willy Wonka". I believe this has something to do with the vast amounts of candy and sugar drinks I always seem to ply them with. (I do hope their parents have good dental insurance )Now, they will know me The good, bad, and the (not so) ugly truth (I still want them to love me.)Square Head is a funny, intoxicating, fast read, with some great candid "Photo-op" moments of movie stars Mike was lucky enough to have worked with. A true behind the scenes look not only of Hollywood... but life

Chief is a story of an underprivileged, lousy English-speaking Hispanic immigrant who meets another, wrong side of the tracks, Gringo. He's the freshmen high school class clown. Both of their wayward lives soon change when they somehow become cops. Santiago, although limited by his migrant background, attempts to rise through the police ranks. His new goal in life is to become the first Hispanic Chief of Police in Los Angeles, California. Then tragedy steps in and cuts one of the two buddy officers down in a horrific, yet heroic way When all is certainly lost, a Heavenly visitor steps in. The enduring officer's life soon changes drastically in a most unsuspecting way

Nirvana is the story of Karma, cause and effect. Mr. Fairbanks, an aged philanthropist, has a dark secret. Problem being, his years are running out before he can cause a change. He has his researcher's design a suspension device in the form of cryogenics. He will return fifty years later to a hopefully socially changing world of his clandestine past. Thirty-six years have passed quietly into his carefully laid plans. Then suddenly, things changed. Greed and intrigue has unraveled his perfect plan. His trusted CFO, cashed out. An inquisitive female reporter stumbles onto the Fairbanks story while trying to solve her own mystery of sudden blackouts. Mr. Fairbanks is locked in a fight for his essence with the probing reporter, while frozen... asleep. Both personalities are in search of an elusive and mysterious answer.