{"id":167601,"date":"2022-05-05T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=167601"},"modified":"2022-05-05T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:34:58","slug":"diy-film-cart-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/diy-film-cart-tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tutorials You Need for Making a DIY Film Cart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cheap carts, hand truck modifications, and more. Here are a few camera cart builds you can put together yourself.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I was in need of a new camera cart and portable workstation recently, but had an issue\u2014giant carts don’t fit in my car. In the past, I’ve built and used my own Rubbermaid utility cart that I customized. It was a good solution on flat studio surfaces, but traveling with it was the worst. I even used a cheap hand truck, which I managed to bend by putting too much weight on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing I did was look into new camera carts and, to no surprise, they were well out of my price range. So, I did the next best thing and looked at new DIY options. The first step was going to hardware stores and seeing their options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I found a few cheaper options at Harbor Freight that made sense but still wouldn’t work if I needed to travel with them. They had numerous plastic and metal carts and rolling toolboxes that would work nicely in a fixed location, but I needed something on-the-go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I remembered a video I had seen from cinemaK<\/a> about a build he put together using some scaffolding. I went to Home Depot and found the scaffolding and got to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Collapsible Camera Cart \/ Editing Station from Scaffolding – Film Bodega<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When I went back to look for his tutorial<\/a>, it was no surprise that a few other filmmakers were inspired by his build and built their versions of this camera cart. In the end, I went with a hybrid of things I liked from all of these builds and made a few of my modifications because it’s all about building the tools you need for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can get the scaffolding<\/a> for $104 and then upgrade things like wheels and shelving as you need. If you want a complete step-by-step breakdown of building the cart and shelves, check out this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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