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Author Strawn, Sandra J

Title The properties director's handbook : managing a prop shop for theatre / Sandra J. Strawn
Published Burlington, MA : Focal Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. What is a Prop? -- 2. Who Does What -- Skills -- Prop Staff -- Contracts and Salaries -- Finding Work -- Beginning a Prop Career -- Education and Training -- 3. Preproduction and Planning -- Research -- Doing Internet Research -- Prop Library -- Design Meeting -- 4. Getting Organized -- Using a Tracking Numbers System -- Getting Started -- Show Bible -- 5. Budgeting -- Spreadsheet Tracking -- Kinds of Budgets -- Bookkeeping and Reporting -- 6. Rehearsal and Production Process -- Rehearsal Report -- Production Meeting -- Rehearsal Props -- Costumes -- Electrics and Sound -- Scenery -- 7. Build Process -- Pulling From Stock -- Borrow -- Build -- Buy -- 8. Production/Tech Process -- Load-In -- Technical Rehearsal -- Opening Night/Run -- Weapons -- Consumables -- Personals -- Run Storage -- Performance Reports -- Strike -- 9. Prop Shop: Tools, Supplies, Space, and Storage -- Multiple-Space Shop -- Single-Space Shop -- Prop Stock and Storage
Summary A how-to guide leading the prop master through planning, pre-production, production, and post-production procedures, budgeting, collaborations with designers and other production areas, and planning a prop shop from the layout of the spaces to the health and safety protocols for shop planning and workplace management
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Stage props -- Design and construction
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery.
Stage props -- Design and construction
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012035625
ISBN 1283894645
9781283894647
041566327X
9780415663274
0203066383
9780203066386
Other Titles Managing a prop shop for theatre