erichart
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My book, "The Prop Building Guidebook: For Theatre, Film, and TV", published by Focal Press, is now available!
The Prop Building Guidebook: for Theatre, Film and TV
A couple of things of note:
1. This is the first book about building props in a decade.
2. No book dedicated to building props has had color photographs. This one has over 500 photos and illustrations in full-color.
3. The book covers wood, metal, plastics, fabric, paint, textures, graphics, sculpting, molding/casting, as well as safety, budgeting and planning.
4. The props used as examples in the book are from actual films and theatre. Everything from Broadway to regional appears in here.
5. It's a hardback book, but spiral-bound inside. This way, you can lay it flat on the table and refer to it while working.
As an added bonus, if you get the book, you will notice I give a little shout-out to ControlBooth in the Acknowledgements section. After all, this is one of the most active and most helpful forums for technical theatre out there.
The Prop Building Guidebook: for Theatre, Film and TV
A couple of things of note:
1. This is the first book about building props in a decade.
2. No book dedicated to building props has had color photographs. This one has over 500 photos and illustrations in full-color.
3. The book covers wood, metal, plastics, fabric, paint, textures, graphics, sculpting, molding/casting, as well as safety, budgeting and planning.
4. The props used as examples in the book are from actual films and theatre. Everything from Broadway to regional appears in here.
5. It's a hardback book, but spiral-bound inside. This way, you can lay it flat on the table and refer to it while working.
As an added bonus, if you get the book, you will notice I give a little shout-out to ControlBooth in the Acknowledgements section. After all, this is one of the most active and most helpful forums for technical theatre out there.