Welcome Batreppers!
My studio is about twenty-five foot square, with a single table in the middle. When you arrive*, I will have the place tidied up and the terrain set up. Sometimes, you may need to set up the terrain in which case a bin will be on hand.
I am located near Liberty Park in downtown Salt Lake City. If you want to set up your first round, contact me at bluetablepainting@gmail.com
I will have two side tables ready. These are for your armies and equipment. You will set up your painted armies there for a preamble video showing your forces. During the report, keep the table clear of dice and other paraphernalia, as well as soda cans etc. Don't break the illusion!
You will use my camera, getting it all on a single SD card. We don't edit our batreps. I just string them together and upload them. So be sure to get it right the first time!
Make sure the door to the main house is closed and locked the whole time.
A battle report is worth a credit of $X, agreed on ahead of time. This amount is a total for both players, not each. So, if it were a $50 credit that would be the total to split between the two players. Thus, a friend and yourself could theoretically get whole new armies by just doing so many battle reports. If you did twenty at (say) $50, that would be $1000 retail.
The credit can only be used for commonly available items, that would come through a local game shop (such as Games Workshop plastics, but not Forge World). You can pick up your items at Blakfyre Games in Pleasant Grove or my studio. If you give me seven to fourteen days heads up, I can have your items ready for pickup on completion of the battle report. But you can just keep your credit on tap if you want. You can also use your credit on www.bluetablestore.com Tell me ahead of time which lots you want.
Camera work should be steady and stay focused on the actions (dice rolls, models, or speaker). Don't drift off! Look through the camera lens when filming.
I have painted armies you can use. Be careful with them, put everything back when done, and set aside any broken figures for repair. If you use your own army, it has to be completely painted with no proxies (but alternate sculpts are allowed and encouraged!)
Clean up when you're done.
Elements of a professional grade battle report:
- Batrep is a product demonstration
- Have fun. Show two humans having a good time with good sportsmanship
- One Take
- Rated G
- Show figures in best light, no figures jumbled together
- Keep food and drink on side tables
- No shirts with logos
- 16mm dice with clear pips, no logos/symbols
- Keep camera steady and on the action
- Enthusiastically narrate what is happening
- Educate both novice and expert
- No music in the background
- Stop the action periodically to show how a unit works or make comments on tactics
- Look up rules off camera, then show what you found (page number)
- WYSIWYG is preferred but there is wiggle room on weapons/armament
- Tabling your opponent on turn 02 doth not a batrep make! Unless you want to talk tactics for an hour after that
Armies available:
Tau
Grey Knights
Deathguard
Skaven
Ironjawz
Beasts of Chaos
Dropzone Commander (two armies)
Games:
You can do a battle report for 40K (the best option), or Age of Sigmar, or skirmish games such as Kill Team and WarCry. Infinity, War Machine, any of those would be cool.
If you finished a battle report in three hours, that would be a surprise. It usually takes four or five hours, with filming, to get one done.
If you are good at it, you will be asked back and paid more. Looking forward to meeting you.
Shawn
*smelling good. You should be showered and deodorized. I will notice.
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