Often, choosing the material for your prop can be the most difficult part of the process; it will in fact determine the process. Choosing the wrong material can lead to added expense, additional labor and a whole lot of headaches. It can even result in a prop that does not look or perform as it should, with the only way to fix it being to rebuild it from scratch.
How do you know which materials to build your prop out of?
- Getting the Shape you Want
- Last year, I presented a paper called Devising a Mental Process for Approaching a Prop. In it, I......
- Stuck in the Middle
- Planning and finishing are the lengthy parts of making a prop; the actual construction in the middle is......
- Design Briefs
- How to use design briefs to figure out what a prop needs to do.......
- SETC Theatre Symposium
- Next Friday, I’m flying to North Carolina to take place in the SETC Theatre Symposium. This year’s theme......
