Ragtime has started tech. Mr. Guy has lots of juggling to do. Props are being checked in and brought to stage to be set, and if it needs tweaking or finishing, back to the prop shop. The show previews next week. It was a very tight build for this show and priorities are on a constant update.
Projects worked on this week.
Immigrant baggage
These characters are arriving in America off the boats. We needed 13-15
pieces. Sarah and I worked on this project. There were plenty of
research pictures to be inspired by. Some luggage was pulled and she
reenforced the insides with foam and changed the outside leather and
details on others. We made blanket rolls and bags. We borrowed some
pieces of clothing from costumes to stick out of a few pieces, and also
borrowed old belts to tie off some of the bundles.
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| Sewing towel inside blanket to make thicker as a bed roll. |
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| Assorted finished immigrant baggage |
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| This was initially too heavy when stuffed. So I unpacked it and used foam covered in scrap fabric to provide most of the fill. |
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| Basket items and foam with scrap fabric. |
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Finished re-stuffed basket. This ultimately was cut .
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Tablecloth/ Blanket
This piece of fabric needed to be cut down to size and fringed. This was done by cutting off one side to what the finished dimension needed to be INCLUDING the fringe length. Then I zigzag stitched where we wanted fringe to go to. From there it was a process of removing threads one row at a time to create fringe. I had started by trying to pull chunks out all at the same time, but then I was shown that it was a smoother and quicker process to remove one at ta time the whole length.
This week I also helped paint the Piano.
OOh, and I got a key!! :-)
Great pictures. The descriptions are nice as well. When you observe/are part of a process please consider making an entry describing the HOW and WHY of that...for example you just had a prop check-in.... how did they do that? who was there? what "tools/lists" did they utilize? what "worked" to make the process have clarity for what the objects were, how they are to be used/maintained, perishables?, speciality needs, etc? What would you do differently?
ReplyDeleteTalk to me about shop organization - how are projects delegated/ supervised in process? What kind of "list" system is shared - how is it updated/ changes communicated? Start really utilizing your internship to examine how the prop shop works and challenge yourself to consider "best practices" for when you are out and doing it yourself....
And I promise to follow your bog more closely now that the semester is started and things are settling down.....