Sheer Pandemonium

This month we put in a new set for a new series called Love Map.  We are doing something very simple, but quite possibly the most effective and easiest set ever!  Voile Sheer.  It is elegant and takes light amazingly.

Sheer fabric has been a fallback for me a ton of times.  We bought a roll of 55 yards of this from Rose Brand for about $300. We used white.  In the near future, I am going to order some silver too that or the amazing cloud color.  Fabric Link

Our space is 21' tall, so we made 6- 23' panels from the roll.  In the past I have worked with this fabric and fastened it with safety pins.  This works ok, but is time consuming, inconsistent, and you experience the inevitable finger pricks.  One thing that anyone who works closely with me learns very quick, is that I am all about processes.  If i'm doing something I will try and make it easier for the future, even if it takes more time on the front end....  So, at the top of our new fabric, I put my patented ghetto webbing!   

The ghetto webbing makes life super easy once it is done.  Here is the process to make it:

We used a straight edge and scissors to make sure our cuts were flush.  If you have ever seen me cut gel, you know why :)

We make it by placing 2 rows of gaff tape on each side of the fabric.  One strip is only on the fabric and one is half way past the top attaching to the other side of gaff.  Sometimes a 3rd to overlap is necessary.  We then poke wholes every 6 inches with a knife and add tie line through the holes.

Then it is as easy as tieing it up.  It gives you 10' for fabric that can be hung in 2 minutes as opposed to 10.  Also you never run into issues of the fabric bunching because it is not pinned level.

I  have also done this same process with some fabric folds every few inches.  It makes for a really cool look, a little less structure, and it looks more organic.

Another cool thing about the ghetto webbing is that you can easily add some density by doubling back the panel.  Instead of 10' of fabric you start at the center of the panel and tie both sides up one direction until its all up, giving you a nice thick 5' section.

You can also add fullness by tying every other point together

We doubled up our sheer and I it amazing as always.

Scaffolding! Version 2 - now with wings!

Firstly if you get the movie reference... You are awesome!  Secondly, this is our awesome set this January.  I know, I am a little behind.  It has been a crazy year so far.

In my move we had one very large set piece we brought with us from Florida.  That set piece is this collection of steel weighing in at over 1 ton. (my wife must love me)  About a third of it is in my pickup below.

The set is pretty straight forward.  We used the same scaffolding from: Battle of the Bands 2011 Encore.  This time rotated the scaffolding so that the side braces were visible.

By intertwining the scaffolding sets, it made a huge visual impact.  The cross beams overlapping made for a nice full interesting video shot.  The scaffolding reflects light awesome and looks very industrial.

We made some horizontal beams out of Unistrut and hung our Mac 101s from them.  At the ends of the unistrut we attached c clamps to hang off the scaffold frames.  The 101s were hung with a bolt through the Unistrtut.  The cool thing with this, is we could symmetrically hang the 101s by counting bolt holes, and they were easily adjustable.

During this setup I had an allergic reaction to some medicine I was on for a cold.  It got so bad I had to go to the doctor to get a shot.  It was misreable, but looked pretty funny.  I have red spoltches and was itching like a crazy!  Patrick Warrington, one of our awesome volunteers took up the charge though and hung most of the lighting on the set.  He did an awesome job.  I am so lucky to have him on our team!

Enjoy the pictures!