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Giant Book set design

Fri, 6 Aug 2010, 09:02 am
flangelap12 posts in thread
Hi. 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.

Good piont Savid!In WA

Sat, 14 Aug 2010, 08:36 am
Good piont david!
In WA schools I believe it still is the policy of the Education Department not to install fire extinguishers in class rooms, as they prefer that teachers do not atempt to become fire fighters & only supervise fire evactuations.
Application of Fire retardants is covered by George Pettit within section 3 of his free download on his Cortec site. Also he did make reference, on another site, to testing fire retardant cardboard against that of flame retardent Luan covered flats & the cortec stood up better to direct contact with open flame.
But in all cases it would be advisable to check with your local Fire Authority first.

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