Skip to Content
Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking
book

Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking

by Dan Rahmel
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
12h 22m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking

images

Prop Fabrication

Applications

Prop fabrication is one of the most exciting and interesting jobs in the art department. When you work on a low-budget film, you’ll be called upon to make an unbelievable number of props. Prop houses are a great place to rent the objects you need, but you may not have one near you or your budget may not allow it. Further, many props are still difficult or very expensive to obtain such as an assault rifle, an Academy Award (until you win one), or a uranium transport container. Some props simply do not exist outside of the imagination of the screenwriter/filmmaker.

Because of the limited time and budget, bad-looking ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Production House Cinema

Production House Cinema

Kurt Lancaster

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780240805467