Hey Guys,
I'm a teacher by day,
stage director by 3pm so I am far from the pros you guys are so I'm hoping you can train a guy who is still learning has he goes.
I am currently working on a set that has a small apartment kitchen in it and I really want to knock it out of the
park with a realistic looking kitchen. I haven't been able to find any cheap used cabinets on craigslist like I hoped so I am hoping someone has has some suggestions on materials / methods to make cabinet facades. I would really love to include a Refrigerator facade too... If I can find fridge doors I will go that route but I'm hoping you guys have some pictures or suggestions for me that I can create instead.
Thanks in
advance!
@DannyDepac A couple of comments for you worth every penny I'm charging. (In other words, not worth much.)
1; "Pros" or not, virtually all of us are still learning. The day I stop learning I'll be dead.
I'm not quite dead yet, please withhold your applause.
2; Don't let your director, or anyone, talk you into a glistening / gleaming / stark WHITE kitchen. No matter how you light it, someone's going to want to have a least one cast member and darned if they're not going to want them to act and emote
immediately downstage of their gleaming white kitchen and then they're going to complain BITTERLY about every tiny shadow they see distractingly dancing across their blemish-free kitchen landscape. Of course you can employ back and cross lighting to great advantage but a pristine / immaculate gleaming white kitchen is
never going to be your friend as a set. Do all cupboards need to open? Do all drawers need to open? Do any of the drawers or cupboards need to be slammed as part of the
blocking? Do you need the latest silently self-closing hinges or would they be detrimental to the director's
blocking thoughts? There you go, a few totally gratis thoughts.
EDIT: Does the sink need to work? Do you need cold water? Do you need hot water too? How much water has to run down the sink drain? Can your sink drain into a 5 gallon bucket with carpet scraps in the bottom to minimize noise or will you need to
plumb your drain to a nearby paint sink, washroom or
loading dock? Does your stove need to work? Does it need to be a gas stove as in the lead commits suicide by sticking their head in the oven or can an
electric stove be used? Do you only need one burner to function or do you need to
power the oven as well? What about other electrical kitchen apliances. toasters, kettles, food processors, blenders, mixers,
electric frypans? What about a kitchen clock? Is it important for the patrons to read the clock and its time to relate to the production or will you need to layer
frost over the digital clock on the stove so it can be seen to be operating but its actual time not visible to patrons?
With apologies for droning on. Possibly I've lit TOO many kitchen sets over the past six decades.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard.