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Mobile Dj TIP about using the Scrim King

Lesson Beginner Stage 7: Software & Gear November 2010

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Right guys, funny hat time. No, well it's not really that funny because this is your typical Jim Marraquai hat. You've got to work with me on this one. Now at the moment I'm doing these Scrim King competition. I'll put a link in this video. All you've got to do is follow the link and watch the video and enter the competition and you could win some Scrim Kings. The whole idea is for you to show us how you would use your Scrims. What are they? We'll watch the other video. If you haven't got any, you can win some. If you've got some, let's have a look at how you'd set them up. If you haven't got any, then draw a picture. But work with me. Check that out.

Now there's the framework and guess what? The Scrim is in mid-air. Now how on earth did I do that? Well alright, it could be a little bit more stretchy, but at the end of the day I haven't got decent wire. It's not wire, it's fishing wire and it's not that strong. So how about this? Get some very strong fishing, not wire, but fishing line, sorry, and attach it to something. So in other words, what's happening now is if you imagine in a very, very dark environment with a light behind it, all of a sudden the public are seeing these Scrims. These bits of cloth in mid-air. What a great sort of idea. So look, there you go, you can just about see it there. Alright, so let's see your idea. Now imagine what something like that would be like. Better, you know, more stretched out in the dark with some lights behind it. Now also bearing in mind that it can stretch a lot more. The only reason is, is that I've tried and the small little lines can stretch a lot more. So I'm going to try and see if I can do that.

There you go, twang. So you work it out, Matt. Perhaps another white one across there or, you know, sort of you've got the white one there, white one there and you can have a black one from the top going down. So you've got three of them. Or you could have them different angles, not just flat like this, like that. Use your imagination. Alright, so I hope that's been helpful. Practice and enjoy.

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