A Scenic Carpenter builds and dismantles temporary scenery and sets in film-making, television, and the theater. In theatre, a carpenter is a stagehand who builds sets and stage elements. Carpenters receive drafting from the technical director who uses the designers' renderings, models, and/or drafting of the set to create the technical drawings for the production. Working mainly with woods and metals, they use techniques that include woodworking and welding. They build set pieces, including some standard elements such as flats, platforms and columns also, as well as pieces of the stage. For example, a carpenter may be responsible for building stairs and ramps on and off of the performance area and for leveling the stage floor itself.
Operating within the construction department under the direction of the art department, scenic carpenters are a crew of highly skilled technicians that bring to life the creative designs of the production designer, art director, and set designer; this crew is directly managed by the construction foreman and lead carpenter. According to the models, sketches, and blueprints produced by the art department, the scenic carpenters build all interior and exterior sets and physical scenery for a film or television production. Scenery can include basic structures consisting mainly of a few flats and a door or highly involved construction projects like building an entire house, great hall of a castle, or several decks of a spaceship. Carpenters will work on assigned projects as outlined by the foreman and adhere to the department’s production schedule. Under most circumstances, carpenters work within a scenic shop to construct set pieces that are then transported and assembled at the shooting location. When necessary, sets are built in the soundstage where principal photography will take place. For productions that demand on-location filming where is it not logistically feasible to transport sets, carpenters set up shop wherever space can be found and make due in the setting they are given.
1 August 2015 at 22:14
Carpentry really is an art. The wood work on the stairs is amazing.
10 August 2015 at 07:38
Good stuff! it goes beyond just being a Carpenter. It can take you on a great production set
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