Hey everyone! Thanks so much in advance for reading and your help.
I am working on a student (University) production and we are trying to make the floor of this production black. The floor is a trapezoid that is approx 40x30 ft at its largest and 40x20 ft at its smallest.
It's a problem that seems easy enough to fix but there is the unfortunate problem that we are not allowed to paint the floor of this space, nor are we allowed to drill into it. It's an immaculate wooden floor and if we mess it up we will be fined a lot of money. Additionally, we will be having 4x8' flats moving on the floor (on casters) at points during the show. This means that the floor has to be secured.
We have about $250-300 extra in our budget that is unaccounted for in the set that I am thinking of directing towards this project. So far the ideas that I have are as follows:
1. Buy some type of sheet good, paint it black, attach to the floor so that it stays in place using velcro
2. Buy some type of rubber floor mat that is used in ballet schools. The only problem that I foresee with this is that someone told me that a different production used rubber flooring like this and casters tore them up.
Please let me know if you have any other ideas, I'm trying to pitch everything that I can to the designer and I'm a little bit at a loss.
Thanks in advance! - Kat
I am working on a student (University) production and we are trying to make the floor of this production black. The floor is a trapezoid that is approx 40x30 ft at its largest and 40x20 ft at its smallest.
It's a problem that seems easy enough to fix but there is the unfortunate problem that we are not allowed to paint the floor of this space, nor are we allowed to drill into it. It's an immaculate wooden floor and if we mess it up we will be fined a lot of money. Additionally, we will be having 4x8' flats moving on the floor (on casters) at points during the show. This means that the floor has to be secured.
We have about $250-300 extra in our budget that is unaccounted for in the set that I am thinking of directing towards this project. So far the ideas that I have are as follows:
1. Buy some type of sheet good, paint it black, attach to the floor so that it stays in place using velcro
2. Buy some type of rubber floor mat that is used in ballet schools. The only problem that I foresee with this is that someone told me that a different production used rubber flooring like this and casters tore them up.
Please let me know if you have any other ideas, I'm trying to pitch everything that I can to the designer and I'm a little bit at a loss.
Thanks in advance! - Kat