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Hi this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens I’m going to show you three ways to hang a backdrop: two simple and one more complicated. I’ve shot backdrops my entire career and hanging them up has always been a problem. I started in the beginning with these huge backdrops. Taping them, and clipping them, and clamping. I have a whole closet full of them.
We’ve talked about this first one before in “6 Tips for Setting Up a Home or Office Studio”. http://bit.ly/1kddMhp We just use half-inch plumbing pipe with an elbow and a plate that attaches to the wall or ceiling depending on how you’ll use it. Then you slip the one-inch pipe over the ends and clamp it in place. One inch is my absolute favorite pipe because it’s just strong enough that it’s not going to bow on a ten-foot length, but not so heavy that it’s just a huge old pipe to have to haul around. One listener sent me a picture where he had taken several of these and painted them all black so they looked really cool. He hung them on the wall at different heights. You could put three backdrops up at once. So these are really simple.
For our second option you simply take your one-inch conduit, put it through your backdrop sleeve and attach it to a C-stand on each side. That’s it, you’re all set to go. If your backdrop doesn’t have a sleeve on it you can simply attach it with clamps. Now the expensive part about this setup is that you have to have two c-stands. Well if we don’t have c-stands and we don’t want that expense, we can put these on regular stands. We simply drill a 5/8-inch hole and it will set right on the stands. And the one-inch conduit is strong enough and wide enough to do that.
Now we’ve got this ten-foot piece of pipe that’s too long to carry in our car. So we’re going to cut it to six foot. And then we’re going cut a ten-foot piece of inch and a quarter conduit to six-foot. Now we have two six foot pieces of pipe, which are still pretty long but much easier to carry in a car. You sleeve them together and can make it longer or shorter as needed. You pull them out to ten-feet and there’s enough of an overlap there with that foot that it’s not going to bow. It’s not as wonderful as a single pipe but it certainly transports a lot easier.
For our third solution we needed something that would allow us to get different angles without running out of backdrop. On a recent shoot for the hair product Pura D’or we had a 25-30 foot drop but it still wasn’t enough. So we decided to bend the pipes. We put a one-inch into a one and a quarter inch and I just bent it by hand. I’ve been working out. So now the pipes can’t come apart but there’s a straight piece of this one-inch conduit that sticks out the end. I can put a straight piece of inch and a quarter conduit on. Those two come together. So now I have a straight piece and a curved. We have the sleeved backdrop so we slide it on. To get it up in the air we attached a couple of Cardellini clamps and then hooked c-stand arms to those and hoisted it.
So there you have it- three ways to hang your backdrops from The Slanted Lens. If you have any other topics you’d like to see or questions about the backdrops let me know in the comments, I’d appreciate it.
Thanks for watching and remember, keep those cameras rollin’ and keep on clickin’.
Jay P.
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48 Comments
The rounded poles idea is genius!
Your intro made my son laugh loudly! Thanks!
Very informative and entertaining video, thanks! Thumbs up and I became a Subscriber as well.
I noticed in the introduction that an assistant was steaming the backdrop as it went up, the best investment I’ve made for my backdrops is my steamer but yours are massive compared to my measly three metres. But they say size isn’t everything…
Great video that I have watched before, I find many of your videos are definitely worth revisiting as they a jam packed full of tips and ides. Now to ask my mother in law if I can borrow her press drill.
Can you do a how to make a simple YouTube background with camo
thank you so much i searched and searched for this video, i wanted a video like this for larger space. i got tired of seeing muslin and paper small width backdrops. and i needed cloth as well, i thought it wans't a thing as cylcorama kept coming up
This was awesome! thank you so much for doing this video!!
What an idiot!
Where can I find leather Backdrop like what you have?
Righty-tighty on your c stand, you had the knuckle facing the wrong direction in your demo. That way, if the pipe sags, it will tighten the knuckle instead of loosening it.
The intro is totally me LOL
The intro has me so fucking weak cause that’s literally how frustrated I am with this backdrop 😂😭 thanks for the help
I'm for saving money as much as the next guy but what's so wrong with buying the stuff that's MADE for holding backdrops correctly? It's not THAT expensive (really, it isn't) and it's MADE to do the job… No pipe fitting, cutting and the like… BTW, I've seen the same setup with painting poles… Save money but please, get a grip!
Thumbnail looked like Bubbles!
I honestly clicked on this because of the funny awesome face you made in the title. And then you were lost in the curtains. You have made my day.
Very useful!
Hi, im new
Oh awesome. I had done the half inch pipes in the ceiling but with screwed in pipes over the whole span which forced me to use clamps even if my backdrop was sown…. I will upgrade it to us the 1 inch tube the way you have it set up. Thanks!
Thanks for the ideas
the intro LOL ME
Awesome. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge.
oh my gosh it's 6 a.m., I came across your video, you made me laugh even though I'm dead tired. "if you don't have a drill press…" LOL, too funny
I rather go deliver pizzas, save up, buy dirt cheap stands.
This DIY tutorial is mentally more expensive than buying a stand. UNLESS your mother in law has a drill press which is true 95% of the time according to his optimistic attitude.
Love her. I’ve always loved her. I like seeing her as a person and still be a genuine human all the time. This was hilarious. Great 👍
Thank you! So good that I stayed through the screaching noises
At 2:28: "So, if you are smart"? How condescending!
Did he say this was going to be easy?
NEVER walk in shoes on a cyc!
excellent ideas. like drilling the 5/8th inch holes in the end of a pipe for a crossbar which might be sturdier than crossbars sold with background stands
Legendary intro. 😂
I was going to ask if it was EMT, IMC, or Rigid Conduit and I paused the video after you drilled pressed it and saw the markings EMT thank you for the video.
Where did you get that huge backdrop? I have been looking and cant find one.
looks like Bubbles dad
That guy with the reciprocator saw cutting the pipe next to his hand scared the SH*T out of me…. I was wincing hoping that he wasn't going to cut himself
This guy is all shopping carts and kittens
What do you use and how to keep backdrop from un-rolling, especially using the metal pole inside the roll?
i legit watched the first twenty seconds of the video and i immediately suscribed.
Thought that was Bubbles from ‘Trailer Park Boys’ in the thumbnail
I watched so many videos and finally finally! This guy gives me the answers I needed. Thank you and you have a subscriber
Great stuff!
THANK YOU!
Any suggestions on how to take wrinkles off of white back drop🧐
You woke me up! 😂 hilarious.
Hi. Great video. I have a question regarding backdrops, I really hope you can answer. For a regular talking head video, what dimensions of the backdrop would be suitable? I don’t want to place the subject too close to the backdrop, have some distance and accent lighting around too. But with all that, do you think something like 3m in width and 2 m in height would be suitable? I’d really appreciate your response. Thanks
Love your personality.
Thank you for sharing, you remind me of Scotty Kilmer from Youtube as well lol. God bless
mother-inlaw with a drill press hahahahhah
For the average home studio guy, its a bit over whelming. Keep it simple. I use magnets, lots of them. Tiny base plates are easily wall mounted for the magnets to anchor onto. No poles, no stands, and minimal cost. Works for me very well.
How do I keep the backdrops from rolling down?