FILMING IS BIG BUSINESS IN TORONTO…HERE IS ONE REASON WHY
EPISODE 391 MOTION PICTURE SET DRESSING TREASURES (matter of opinion)
alan skeoch
july 2021
Good news came up the farm laneway in the form of a 5 ton truck sent
loaded with gifts from Michael V. Treasures ,really. So here are
some pictures and a few questions to which the only answer is “GOOD!”
“ALAN, we need set dressing for a factory in ruins…”
GOOD
“MARJORIE, we need some things for village in 1950’s…i.e. oil storage tanks…iron wheels.”
GOOD
“ALAN, we need some things for a back alley in a tough city.”
GOOD
“MARJORIE, we need some things for a ship yard in ruins…1930’s rusty…broken…forgotten”
GOOD
“ALAN we need a disaster scene dressing”
GOOD
“MARJORIE, The setting is a scrap yard.”
GOOD
“ALAN, we need rusty things left on a desert island in 1944.
GOOD
“MARJORIE, I would not have this stuff on our lot.”
GOOD
“ALAN, This is ridiculous…junk”
GOOD
“MARJORIE, there is no place to keep this stuff.”
GOOD
“ALAN, we need a fake sunflower,,blooming in a junk yard.”
GOOD
“MARJORIE we need a guy in short pants …goof/”
GOOD
ALAN. I would not allow this stuff..”
GOOD
THANKFULLY few people know the secret of good set
dressing. Do you really want to know? Good set dressing
must be beaten and twisted, torn and paint chipped, weathered and
dying. Why? Because then and only then does a motion picture
set capture the human condition. I’m talking about serious drama…
not the fluffy stuff. Take a close look around the real world.
alan
