Create Your Own Stage Props

Create Your Own Stage Props
Author: Jacquie Govier
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1984
Genre: Stage props
ISBN: 9780713630374

A practical book which describes how prop makers can create interesting and unusual stage props out of a variety of materials, such as papier mache, plaster, fibreglass and polystyrene. It is aimed at community, school and college drama societies.

The Prop Building Guidebook

The Prop Building Guidebook
Author: Eric Hart
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317292812

Experienced prop maker Eric Hart walks readers through techniques used in historical and contemporary prop making and demonstrates how to apply them to a variety of materials. Hundreds of full-color photographs illustrate the tools and techniques used by professional prop makers throughout the entertainment industry. New features to the second edition include: Updated information on the latest tools and materials used in prop making Both metric and standard measuring units Step-by-step photos on common techniques such as upholstery, mold making, and faux finishing Expanded coverage of thermoplastics, foam, and water-based coatings

Prop Building for Beginners

Prop Building for Beginners
Author: Eric Hart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-04-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000366871

Prop Building for Beginners outlines the basic concepts of prop building by featuring step-by-step instructions to create twenty of the most commonly featured items in theatrical and filmed productions. This book uses a combination of projects to expose readers to a wide range of materials and tools that they might find in a basic scenery or costume shop, serving both as a guide to building simple props and as a crash course in the variety of items a props person may have to build. The projects require a variety of tools, techniques, and materials so that a practitioner who completes all of them will have received a complete introduction to the basics of prop building. Assuming no previous knowledge of prop building, this is the perfect primer for students, hobbyists, or community theater enthusiasts looking to enter the prop shop. Prop Building for Beginners includes access to full-scale printable versions of the patterns featured in the book.

Create Your Own Stage Sets

Create Your Own Stage Sets
Author: Terry Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Amateur plays
ISBN: 9780823088553

Crammed with practical guidance for constructing stage scenery, this volume explores variations in theaters and options for tailoring sets, from building scale models to erecting finished sets.

Costumes, Accessories, Props, and Stage Illusions Made Easy

Costumes, Accessories, Props, and Stage Illusions Made Easy
Author: Barb Rogers
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2005
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Transform common people into superheroes, movie stars, witches -- whatever illusion you want to create. Creative costuming is all in the details. One garment can take on many totally different looks depending on how you accessorise it. Over the years, the author has learned all the tricks about how anyone can turn leftover clothing into fabulous costumes. This book's numerous drawings explain in detail the costuming process of 'turning straw into gold'. It shows you how to design illusions that you never thought possible. Yes, you can easily do all this -- and at a minimum expense! This is another Barb Rogers must have book for your library of costume ideas.

Props

Props
Author: Eleanor Margolies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137413379

This diverse book brings together theoretical and practical viewpoints on objects in performance, how they can be part of theatre scenery, equal partners in performance, or autonomous things. Through close analysis of specific performances, Eleanor Margolies examines actor training, scenography, materials, construction techniques and object theatre. The text investigates a number of critical questions, including: what the difference is between a theatre prop and an everyday object; how audiences respond to the various ways that props are used by actors and designers; and whether devising with 'stuff' affect the making process or the attitudes to materiality embodied in performance. With discussions of papier mâché and collapsing chairs, fake food and stage blood, Props is an essential sourcebook for students, practitioners and researchers of theatre, design and prop-making.

Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs

Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs
Author: Sidney Jackson Jowers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1136746420

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook

The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook
Author: Thurston James
Publisher: Betterway Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1989-11-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781558701281

The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook &break;&break;This is the first book to contain, in one comprehensive volume, every molding and casting procedure of use to the theater props builder (no matter what his or her level or proficiency). The author demonstrates the techniques involved in using more than thirty different materials ranging from papier-mache to breakaway glass. &break;&break;While the use of some materials–plaster and polyester resins, for example–is covered to some extent in other publications, information on the selection and use of rubber materials (latex, neoprene, silicone, and the urethanes) and the procedure for making breakaway windows and bottles is available only in The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook. &break;&break;Written in an easy, conversational style, the book will be useful to anyone involved with theater properties, puppetry, and costuming (as professionals or amateurs). It will also serve admirably the needs of students taking classes in those subjects. &break;&break;Completing the book is a special section on designing and building a vacuum forming machine suitable for use in constructing theater props. More than 450 photographs illustrate the step-by-step procedures explained throughout the entire text.

The Prop Effects Guidebook

The Prop Effects Guidebook
Author: Eric Hart
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2017-12-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1351395483

In The Prop Building Guidebook, author Eric Hart demonstrated how to cut, glue, sculpt, and bend raw materials to build props. Now in The Prop Effects Guidebook, he shows us how to connect and assemble components and parts to make those props light up, explode, make noise, and bleed. It delves into the world of electricity, pneumatics, liquids, and mechanical effects to teach you how to make your props perform magic in front of a live audience. The book is complemented by a companion website featuring videos of how to create individual prop special effects: www.propeffectsguidebook.com.