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HOUSING
the Home
HOLLYWOOD
By Kenneth E. Nettleton
EVERY amateur who has attempted production work or scenario filming realizes why most of the producers have moved to Hollywood, why natural settings are usually discarded and costly studio sets erected, and why the average production runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
He who is limited to Saturday and Sunday filming realizes only too well, as the rainy weekends go by, the value of California sunshine, and he who has attempted filming in public places, especially with an amateur cast, easily understands the advantage of studio privacy. But ideas of a studio usually end with the thought of the expense involved.
However, harking back to the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention, many amateurs have devised numerous and interesting methods for gaining their ends in film
OUT OF THE BANDBOX
A Clever Cine Treatment of the Fashion Show Idea by the Motion
Picture Club of New Haven
A garage studio has worked out very successfully for some of the production work of the New Haven Club, and while not the ideal solution of the studio problem, it has at least economic advantages for any new club.
As will be noted by the illu tion, the garage referred to is an dinary two-car garage about 20 by 22 feet. Perhaps, before speak ing of the inside equipment, it be interesting to note the ideal door stage provided by the large panse of concrete drive in front
the garage. By the use of either large sheets of composition board or curtains, for a backing, and rugs spread on the concrete, a good set is provided for numerous shots. The garage, being substantial and of the right height, lends itself readily for fastening to the roof projecting strips or slats to hold any hangings or even a gauze screen to diffuse the light on the set. Although the writer has often used anything but polite language regarding swinging doors on a windy day, these doors can be made to provide many useful and varying angles for the background. Some of the illustrations on this
page are from a recent fashion show filmed on such a set by the New Haven Club.
But the most interesting part of a garage studio is its adaptiveness for filming by artificial light. Perhaps this is not the time of year to talk of such a studio unless the garage is heated. But even if not heated, it will, in the majority of cases, be found warm enough during eight months of the year.
The main items of expense are the portable lights and about eight or ten sheets of composition siding, about four feet by nine feet. Any of the standard makes, such as Beaver Board or Celotex, will do. Celotex, having a rough finish, gives the effect of the present popular rough plastered walls. Do not use {Continued on page 204)
Center: Exterior of the Garage Studio. Left: The Garage Front Draped as a Background for the Fashion Show. Right: Interior of the Garage Studio.
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