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How We Built These Car Rigs For An Album Film

How We Built These Car Rigs For An Album Film

How We Built These Car Rigs For An Album Film

Hostess tray car rig

Rigging

Mar 22, 2025

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Hostess tray car rig

Rigging

Mar 22, 2025

0:00/1:34

Hostess tray car rig

Rigging

Mar 22, 2025

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Hostess tray car rig

Rigging

Mar 22, 2025

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Car Rigging

Tips & Tricks

We employ a variety of tricks when setting up car rigs. With a multitude of hardware available half the battle is choosing softmount vs. hardmount, pre-manufactured setup vs. custom, where you need adjustability, and whether you need to provide more integration for multiple rigs. Let’s talk future-proofing your rigs with adjustability and thinking ahead for multiple camera positions.

passenger side car rig
passenger side car rig

The why behind the rig

This car rig was built for a shot through the passenger window while clipping the side mirror, emphasizing adjustability using a vertical pipe. Unlike a hood or suction rig, this build allowed easy height changes and repositioning, with thoughtful triangulation and safety considerations throughout.

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Priorities Over Perfection

When building a car rig, prioritize adjustability based on the shot—horizontal, vertical, or both—while balancing rig time and efficiency. A perfectly adjustable rig is useless if it takes too long to build and costs you the shot.

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hostess tray rig with suction cups
hostess tray rig with suction cups

Perhaps the most important part of rig building is prioritization. You can have adjustability in every direction and a support system in place for multiple rig positions but it all means nothing if it took too long to rig. You may have to compromise - what can we get away with and what do we really need? Knowing how to car rig is one thing but actually knowing how to pull it off with restrictions and specific needs is what makes for a great rig.

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Brendan Riel

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