Finishing off the Scenic Flats Doorway and Window + (Canvasing Time)

After completing the easy flats we moved onto constructing the Doorway and the Window/Fireplace (we choose Window). These worked the same way as the other they just had extra sections of wood that needed slotting into place and they were alot more fiddly than the rest. But again we managed to assemble them at a good speed because we all helped eachother out and all worked together. 

A trick that we used to make it easier to assemble these 2 flats was we put out some chairs to it was raised up this allowed for us to rest the small fiddly sections on the chairs instead of juggling 101 different pieces of wood, this work in our favor massively and helped speed things up.

Now that we had completed the construction of every last scenic flat we had to complete the job and canvas the front of them so that the can be painted time and time again for many shows other than The Wedding Singer.

This was going to take all of us working together to get this right because it needed to be pulled tight over the framework and then stapled into the frame with heavy duty staples.

In the photo (Right) You can see all of us have a section of the canvas that we are holding, I am putting some staples in at one end of the canvas as like a point at which we start to stretch from. After this we all stretched the canvas as much as possible and then staples down the sides holding it in place.

Finally we trimmed away the waste canvas and folded it all up and placed in a pile to be used elsewhere if needed (some of the spare canvas was then used to cover the sinks instead of using plyboard).

We then repeated this process over and over again until all the scenic flats had been wrapped in canvas, I think we did all feel like we had done alot over the last 2 sessions we had been working on them for and Ii personally could see the set coming together bit by bit.

This wasn't the end, well for me... I decided that I wanted to sort out the canvas that covered the window and also the doorway. To do this I had to cut around the inside of the section that needed to be opened up leaving enough fabric to be tucked around the wood, this would mean it would still keep all the canvas stretched.

After doing this I proceeded to stretch and staple this fabric back to the flat, and when completed on both you had a window opening and doorway and neither of which had messed up the stretch on the rest of the canvas.

(This is me inside the window cutting around the inside to form the bit of fabric that looped around.