Giant Book set design
Fri, 6 Aug 2010, 09:02 amflangelap12 posts in thread
Giant Book set design
Fri, 6 Aug 2010, 09:02 amHi. My name is Jason Bancroft and i am a Drama Teacher in Western Australia. For our next production, i would like to make the set a giant book measuring 3m tall with pages 4m wide. Each page could then be turned (on casters) to set the next scene providing a total of 4 scenes comprising of 3 pages and a front and back cover. Visually, i can see what i want but our maintainence team at the school are having difficulties coming up with a construction solution. We are able to bolt the spine of the book to a brick wall but are unsure how to create braced pages that are light enough to move. Anyone who could offer any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Did this once
Fri, 6 Aug 2010, 11:54 amI had one page 3.6 metres tall and 4.8 metres long. We built it out of 4 individual flats. Each flat had 2 castors on the bottom and a long piece of timber was screwed the full length of the page, the bottom piece was 42ml square and the top length was 42 x 19. It was moved by one person only and worked quite well. I've been looking to see if I could find any photo's but drew a blank.
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