Prop is short for "property". Anything that is touched by an actor in a script is labeled a prop - cell phone, cigarette, lighter, knife, piece of paper. Anything in a scene but not handled is considered set dec(oration). Sometimes pieces of a costume are considered props and it depends on how we divide up the items between departments. If a wedding ring is a real and expensive diamond, it's usually considered a prop because props has a safe to lock it in. If an actor makes it all the way back to their basecamp trailer with a prop (they are supposed to give it back to props on set at the end of the day) costume department has to chase it down and return the item to the props truck.
Weapons are usually a sub-division in props department and many times the guys in charge are former military. Blanks are used mostly. But even a blank can kill at close range with improper handling.
I've been seeing articles and comments all over the internet since Thursday's stupidly avoidable tragedy and there is a lot of confusion about many things. It's weird that for once, I am able to read an article and glean a huge amount of information from just a partial quote or filler text by a journalist for flow that most people don't even see as important to the story. Do you want me to break it down and give you my understanding of the whole time line of events as I've pieced them together so far? The media is, of course, spinning everything in many directions. Are you interested in posts about film crew lingo and how things work on set in general (it is a deep rabbithole subject)? I find most people's eyes start to glaze over when I talk about stuff like this in real life - how interested are you in these kinds of things?
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I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.
