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.
I made one for St Marks,
Fri, 6 Aug 2010, 05:36 pmI made one for St Marks, many years ago, the mechanism is a round plate which rotates and spigots around the plate which the flats sit on, so the flats rotate on the spigots and the whole disc rotates to cater for the "pages" going from one side to the other.It's easier with flats made of steel tube.