How To Build A Film Set

As indie filmmakers, we're used to making practise with what is easily, readily, and/or inexpensively at our disposal, and many times the locations nosotros need don't fit within those criteria. Even so, with a little bit of know-how and a few bucks (about $170), yous could construct your own flats (the fake walls used on films and theater sets), which would not only let you to film in the location you want (a mock version, at least), but it will accept the stress away of having to shoot in someone else's space. Matt Brown is here with a tutorial to prove you lot how to saw, hammer, and drill your mode to making flats that'll be perfect for any project.

Knowing how to build flats is a great piece of information to know off-hand as a filmmaker, because the possibility of needing one eventually is so high. How many times accept you lot shot scenes in your friend's mom'southward house, tiptoeing around, feeling like an unwelcome guest, all considering you lot needed a living space that looked nicer than your crappy one-bedroom duplex? (Sorry, was I projecting, again?) Knowing how to construct flats relatively cheaply and easily (perhaps not equally cheaply as shooting in your friend's mom'southward house for free, but whatever) will open up upwardly new possibilities in storytelling for futurity projects, and could even up the production values, too.

Now, I'm no Bob Villa-esque charpentier with a perfectly sculpted beard to match, but the construction of these flats is simple enough for pretty much any skill level as long as you know how to safely operate a saw -- and a hammer -- gotta watch those phalanges, guys. Making the jacks, the pieces of woods that'll hold your flats upwardly (Chocolate-brown likens them to the little chip of cardboard on the back of a picture frame), will probably be the most complicated matter about this build, since you'll take to cut out a gouge for hanging sandbags. Equally long equally yous have a jigsaw (y'all could probably get away with using a Sawzall, likewise, justbe careful), this should be too much of a challenge, though -- it's not like it has to expect pretty.

Cheque out the tutorial below:

Now, knowing how to build flats is only the beginning. You still have to apparel it upwards and brand it look like any location you're aiming for, which is a much more challenging job than merely sawing and nailing pieces of wood together -- just at least y'all're off to a good showtime.

[Drill paradigm by Flickr user cactusbeetroot]

[via thesubstream & Filmmaker IQ]

How To Build A Film Set,

Source: https://nofilmschool.com/2014/07/build-film-set-diy-tutorial-flats

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