my last post was almost a week ago.... I've not been lazy, but life has been a little hectic the last week with a lot of stuff not relevant to theatre. but that just means I have a large amount re report.
so Thursday of last week we did some building specific stuff- we mostly built some racks for the costume store room and that took an entire morning. for the rest of the day I finished all of the platforms we needed to build for Flat Stanley. On Friday in the morning we started with the flats. we got everything cut listed before lunch, then after words I got a little over half of it framed out.
Yesterday was a simply, yet busy day. I got all of the flats completely built- unfortunately the other intern (who is only in before lunch) was having a bad day so a lot of it took twice as long as normal because of all of the tearing apart and re cuts that had to happen, but it still wasn't too bad. after lunch I found a mistake of my own that usually isn't a big deal unless the designer is either just a little more picky then most, or is an asshole- I cut the angle on the wrong side of a piece of lauan so I had to put it on backwards so they made me tear it off and replace it. after that we made a run to home depot (which is actually right across the street) to get some more supplies, then we put all of the flats on the platforms; hey presto it's starting to look like set pieces!
Today we started fidgeting with the parts of the set they are recycling from the original (non touring) production of this show. we repaired and put together two beds, then we fixed some large picture frames that needed a metric fuck ton of help- and we had to make them sturdy enough to withstand the the abuse of tour life.....and they weren't built well to begin with.....after that we made yet another home depot run for some 1 X lumber, then we build some headers for the flats- essentially they sit on top of the walls and rais up to make then larger, but lower down so they will fit in the trucks.
thats pretty much it for the last week. tomorrow and Thursday I will actually be working with a stage hand company in Fort worth so I can pay the bills.
have a wonderful night!
Justin (Chops) Voga
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