What do you always want in a grip truck?

[Barry_Green]

Nice one, Nomadic!

[texasmfp]

I noticed that the list of equipment didn't mention stingers

[CovenantPictures]

Lots of 48x48 silks and double scrims.

[RyanT]

I noticed that the list of equipment didn't mention stingers

Wrong department.

[Gil-galad]

bag of t-stops and a sky hook.

sorry...I really am that lame

Don't forget your dolly keys, man. You forget those, everyone looks bad.

[NOMADIC]

haha, that's a good one, I'm going to use that one this week.

[Eric Ferguson]

Don't underetimate the putty knife! Its most useful funtion is to turn any heavy object into a grippable atachment point. Take your oxford dictionary, set it down on a shelf. Put the putty knife under it with the handle and stud sticking out, now you've got a stud that will take a 250 watt light or a reflector, etc. Think of all the work it would have taken to get a clamp into that tiny shelf space or worse yet to set up a stand.

You could light an entire film set in a library with only putty knives.

[Paul Hudson]

Don't forget the batteries for the shiney boards ;-)

[Paul Hudson]

Oh, and a can of focus fluid.

[slondon]

My last DP sent a PA out to the truck to get a bag of T-stops from me coupla weeks ago. I told the kid to tell the DP I forgot and left them home. Would he settle for a bag of F-stops?