Northern & Western New Jersey Lift Filming Journal

Lift Galore FAQ    What is a trailer? A trailer is an introduction to the lift galores to follow. A trailer can be up to 3 minutes long & offers a brief glimpse of each lift which will be featured on a LIVE premiere. These trailers premiere 24 hours before said specific corresponding part of the lift galore premieres. Magisto is used to create this type of premiere. What is a lift galore? A lift galore is a lift tour premiere that is 3-15 minutes long. This is the basic lift galore showcasing all lifts filmed during a regular, single-day lift filming excursion where up to 10 lifts are filmed. A lift galore can be broken up into multiple parts if over 10 lifts were filmed during the same day or to conserve technological resources during editing. Clipchamp is used to create lift galore videos, with the Clipchamp watermark & 480 P  export quality (for now). What is an extended urbex lift galore? An extended urbex lift galore is a lift galore that is 15-30 minutes lo...

Always plan for the best case scenario  to happen. The best case scenario rarely happens , so it's best to have a theoretical plan of all the lifts you want to film should everything go right  (e.g. no security, all lifts unlocked, no turnstiles, no locked doors to get to lifts, etc.) While an overly optimistic move, it can be a good thing to have a back up plan in place everything goes right.  You won't be left wondering what to film during the best case scenario & you'll always be prepared no matter which case scenario happens.  To maintain a humble attitude during your lift filming trips, expect  the worst but prepare  for the best. Plan to create & edit content the second you get home from your trip or back to the hotel room. Pretty straightforward. Open your computer, open your video editing app, import all your pictures & videos from your phone, put your head down & grind until your time is up (save the project) or until you have your ...

For this lift galore, we have broken it into 2 parts: The corporate town (part 1) & the hotel town (part 2). The corporate town contains the following locations: Gateway Plaza (a high-rise office building) 400 Plaza Drive (a low-rise office building) The hotel town contains the following locations: Embassy Suites Holiday Inn Courtyard by Marriott (Bonus Clip) Corporate Town For the corporate town, we will mainly be focusing on two office buildings of differing heights with differing designs & different lifts: The Gateway Plaza , which is a standalone building on its own city block surrounded by a highway loop between Harmon Meadow Blvd & US-1 400 Plaza Drive , which is one of the conglomerate corporate office buildings on Plaza Drive in Secaaucus Gateway Plaza This building has a set of 3 epic & awesome DoverPayton relay-logic controlled lifts. This lift has tri-phase acceleration & triple-speed leveling & it provides a view of the highway & La Quinta Inn...

Car 1 D20 call station (Lower terminal) D20 car interior D20 buttons D20 FPI D20 down indicator D20 lights The first lift is a KONE orange D20 lift which was installed in 2013 when the shopping center was expanded. This lift travels 1.5 P & is a great lift due to how it jolts, clunks & glitches. I really like the way it has semi-classic leveling & pre-doors. This lift is very fast for the distance it serves & has a basic standard car interior. Overall, a great lift. Car 2 KSS 140 OOS Indicator KSS 140 Intermediate Call Station KSS 140 Landing KSS 140 Interior Fixtures KSS 140 Internal FPI This lift is located at the taller part of the car park terrace outside of Urban Outfitters on the second floor of the shopping center. It is a KONE KSS 140 which was also installed in 2013. This lift serves 5 floors & travels 1.5 P. It is an epic & awesome lift due to how it classic levels, jolts, screeches, clunks & makes several shaft noises going up & down. It provi...

Let’s start off with the first lift as pictured below which is a Schindler 300A dry-powered hydraulic lift from the mid-90’s: It has Schindler MT short-bar buttons, a wooden car interior, new LED lights (cab renovated during COVID-19 pandemic) & a stainless steel frame with stainless steel handrails. It serves 3 stops & has a dry-powered hydraulic motor which sounds pretty nice, but it isn’t something to write home about. I really like the jolts & bounces this thing makes on the way up & down, but it is still a basic standard lift you can find at many different Macy’s stores across North America, so its final grade is a C+. The second lift I was able to film was a very nice EXCEL DOVER (meaning it got modernised by EXCEL from its Dover Impulse fixtures. The fixtures from the first glance are nothing special but zooming inward they use concave Innovation Security which is very rare. The lift also has a very unique “Doors open” “Door close” announcement which goes off eve...

Summer Campaign 2021 Tentative Lift Filming Plans May 2021 May 11 - Freehold Raceway Mall (2 Schindler MT’s & glass Excel/Dover) June 2021 June 11 - Westfield Garden State Plaza (All lifts) July 2021 July 9 - Secaucus followed by 747 Route 17 North & possibly Sheraton Mahwah August 2021 August 6-9 - Atlantic City, if NOT Atlantic City then King of Prussia on August 10 September 2021 September 1 - New Tower at Kean University with Gen2 & 400AE retakes

  Lift Character Review 7995 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway: Dallas TX Filmed by DieselDucy. Video here . Lift Character Report here . Lift Details Original Brand | Baxter & Sons Modernised Brand | Kone Power | Submersible Standard Hydraulic Lift Character Report Appearance | 757 (Great) Run Character | 718 (Great) Appearance Appearance: 757 / ~4.2 stars (Great) Fixtures: 0:08-0:26 Cab: 0:11-0:15 Analysis At first glance, as the lift door opens to the right, we’re greeted with a light wooden cab interior with tiled down hanging fluorescent translucent lighting of a slightly warmer tone. The handrails are pretty basic standard brushed steel. To the left of the video on frame, we see a super nice white-illuminated Kone proprietary lantern with a typical Kone chime. The door type, as can be seen, is a painted left-hand single-speed door (opens to the right, on film, from the outside). So far, the cab seems to transmit great vibes. Further into the video, as the occupants of the lift pr...