Hi there
Question for anyone who knows a good rule or guideline. I'm working with a community theatre group and I just got through building "Bus Stop" for them. It is, by budgetary and space and time and manpower constraints, the most god-awful conglomeration of materials you could imagine. I have a few Hollywood flats with cutouts patched in them, a few softcover flats with tears and rips repaired with paper and/or tape, foamcore framed in in spots, lauan, hardboard, etc, dutched with paper, 2" masking tape, anything you could imagine.
Thank goodness I know how to do a lot of painted-on details...
Anywho, I want, after this bad boy is struck, to make up a good stock of flats for this place. Hardcover flats, as opposed to Hollywood (regular flat frames as opposed to 1x stock on edge, covered with lauan, for storage and handling purposes). The thing I'm having a hard time with is determining how many of what sizes to make.
Our proscenium is about 23' wide by 10' tall (former community center/soroptimists hall), so most of what I build is 10' tall and out on platforms in front of the proscenium (stage is 13 feet deep from the plaster line, so I extend our apron usually 12-16 feet)
I want to build 4', 3', 2' and some 1' flats to keep in stock--How many of each? Like, "enough 4' flats to...build a room? wall up the proscenium? box in the whole stage and apron space?" Any guidelines would be appreciated. I want a good stock that we can use to throw up pretty much any unit set without cannibalizing, but not so much that we'll end up buying/storing more than we ever use.
Any input would be great. Thanks.
sean
Question for anyone who knows a good rule or guideline. I'm working with a community theatre group and I just got through building "Bus Stop" for them. It is, by budgetary and space and time and manpower constraints, the most god-awful conglomeration of materials you could imagine. I have a few Hollywood flats with cutouts patched in them, a few softcover flats with tears and rips repaired with paper and/or tape, foamcore framed in in spots, lauan, hardboard, etc, dutched with paper, 2" masking tape, anything you could imagine.
Thank goodness I know how to do a lot of painted-on details...
Anywho, I want, after this bad boy is struck, to make up a good stock of flats for this place. Hardcover flats, as opposed to Hollywood (regular flat frames as opposed to 1x stock on edge, covered with lauan, for storage and handling purposes). The thing I'm having a hard time with is determining how many of what sizes to make.
Our proscenium is about 23' wide by 10' tall (former community center/soroptimists hall), so most of what I build is 10' tall and out on platforms in front of the proscenium (stage is 13 feet deep from the plaster line, so I extend our apron usually 12-16 feet)
I want to build 4', 3', 2' and some 1' flats to keep in stock--How many of each? Like, "enough 4' flats to...build a room? wall up the proscenium? box in the whole stage and apron space?" Any guidelines would be appreciated. I want a good stock that we can use to throw up pretty much any unit set without cannibalizing, but not so much that we'll end up buying/storing more than we ever use.
Any input would be great. Thanks.
sean