Prop Building for Beginners

<p><em>Prop Building for Beginners</em> 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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><em>Prop Building for Beginners</em> includes access to full-scale printable versions of the patterns featured in the book.</p>