Need help! Demo stand

[Guest Key West]

Well, here I was thinking that I'm ready to go on my S&S demo, I'm just waiting for word from WDEF. THEN, I watched the BondKap residential demo............ I sure as hell dont want the door sliding all over!! I need to build a beefier support for it. I need it to be far enough from a wall to film from both sides. Any design suggestions will be appreciated.

Right now it sits on a 5' x 5' frame of 2x4 with supports at 45 degrees sloping down the back. No pics, I disassembled it without thinking to take a couple.

[Guest darkdan]

Lean it against a building....strap it down. No backwards movement (sadly, it would limit the travel of the film/glass.

Otherwise, take that structure and attach it to a tree. Most likely those 2x4s will break before anything else does.

[Guest darkdan]

Or wait, put that structure against a building. Then run more 2x4s from the top of the door to the building parallel to the ground. No backwards movement of the structure, no torquing of the structure downwards either.

[Guest Key West]

Lean it against a building....strap it down. No backwards movement (sadly, it would limit the travel of the film/glass.

Otherwise, take that structure and attach it to a tree. Most likely those 2x4s will break before anything else does.

I thought about using 8' 2x4 stand offs coming straight back off the top and putting that against a wall, but remember, I need room to film from BOTH sides of the glass

[Guest Key West]

ya beat me to it!!!!!

[Guest darkdan]

8' of room isn't enough to put a camera on a tripod?

Screw it, find a brick building with an overhead door. Run cross members up to the wall above the door. Now you have a large amount of room.

Put some "out riggers" sideways on the bottom to hit the wall to keep it from sliding backwards.

You'll also need to anchor it so it doesn't move forwards from the rebound.