portable stands

  • artist's easels
  • music stands
  • tripods
  • parasol stands (the sort you fill with water)
  • concrete bases (poured into plastic bags)

Sometimes things may get just two seconds of screen time or never even get filmed at all. Don't take it personally. Smile and keep watching

fixing methods

  • string
  • wire
  • rope
  • cable ties
  • good gaffa tape (black and white)
  • safety pins
  • a top quality staple gun (4mm and 9mm)
  • repositionable spray mount (so you can stick things onto walls and then remove them)

building things

  • thin iron bars from a builders merchants (those used in reenforced concrete) light, bendy, stable & cheap)
  • construction foam (light & strong, but remember it expands)
  • car filler (two component type)
  • chicken wire
  • papier mache (add wood glue to the wallpaper paste to make it a bit more waterproof)
  • heating-pipe insulation tubes
  • camping karrimats to cut up
  • old black molton cotton
  • polystyrene
  • polystyrene paste (you can't stick polystyrene with normal glue)

other

  • watery black emulsion with a bit of olive green for making things dirty and old
  • electric fans for blowing stuff around