Prop Design. Make a Rowboat Prop for the Stage.
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- In this video I'll show you how we, at BLC Theatre, made a prop rowboat for the stage. We used our rowboat prop for an adaptation of "Anne of Green Gables", but this is the kind of prop that could show up in any number of classic plays like "Peter Pan" or "Treasure Island" etc.
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Thank you for taking the effort and the time to share how you made this prop. It was so clear and simple. I actually used this video to make a boat for a stage production myself. But I didn’t use 2x4’s as those are not available in my country. We ended up just using 2 pcs of 3/4” plywood sandwiched to create the braces.
!!! Great little build. You should consider making this boat available for rent in your area.!! Atleast you can make back what u spent on materials.
Sweet! Thanks, Allister. So glad this was helpful.
What a gift. Thank you so much for sharing.
You betcha.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is stunning.
Glad to help.
Amazing going to use this idea for my small how. Great video
Thanks, friend.
THIS IS AMAZING! The kids and I are putting on Tuck Everlasting in our driveway and are so excited to have found this tutorial for our boat. We are in love with your channel.
Aw man! Wonderful! So glad so you found this useful! Best of luck on Tuck Everlasting! Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching!
Awesome man, I’m a student in highschool right now and I’m in stage craft and we’re choosing an aspect of theater to do a project on and I’m doing set design. I need to build a boat for the set and this will be super helpful.
Hey! Right on! Best wishes on the project. Sounds fun.
Thanks very much for the design, but if you ever build again, start the boards at the bottom and then overlap as you work your way to the top. That is the way most wooden boats are built so water does not end up "sitting" on the seams. (obviously no mater which way you lap them, they have to be water tight). Will be building a version shortly.
Right on. Thanks for the heads-up, Andrew. First boat I ever made, and it was a fake one. Sorta sums up my life I guess. Seems like I mostly ever make fake things...haha.
Thank you! This is an awesome design and thanks for sharing your skills. Do you remember the approximate cost for this project?
Aw, shoot. Sorry, I don't. I think it was all built with materials that we had in stock, so there was never a receipt. The price would almost certainly be higher now anyways since this was a pre-covid show.
Looks fantastic! What are the vertical dimensions? I’ve been asked to do something like this and love your design.
Hi Sean. That's a great question. We happen to be using the boat for our current show, so I was able to take a measurement. With the castors on, the boat stands 18 1/2 inches tall from the floor. Without the castors the boat itself is 16 inches vertically. Hope this helps.
@@heypete1827 Thanks for the reply, that’s just what I needed.
@@Sean-em9uy You bet! Have fun with your build.
Looking forward to the plays featuring George Washington Crossing the Delaware and the Titanic. (Which may or may not be the same show.)
Let's make it the same show!
What did you use to attach the lauan to the side supports? I know you said staples but what size staples and how did you get them in (electric, pneumatic or manual stapler)? Thanks
Oh man. I'm going by memory here. I'm sure I used 1/4 crown staples and I used a pneumatic staple gun. I'm fuzzy on the length, but they were probably 1 inch long.
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You betcha!
This is essentialy how dalaks work. It's a box with a seat and casters
How did you figure out the curve cut to do for the braces?
You're going to hate me for this, but honestly we just eyeballed it. I came up with a curve that I thought would look right, and then went with it for the rest of the braces
@@heypete1827 gotcha, well that works for me. Love the design!
I'm curious on how the dimensions are for each piece, my and my father in law are trying to get a boat down for the play "Holes" and to have one that can be reused and we are scratching our heads at possible dimensions
Hi Jonathan. Tell me a little bit more about what you need the dimensions to be. As for me. I just spitballed at the dimensions and came up with the boat size that I did. For instance, if you need your boat to be able to fit through a door on stage, then you'd make sure that the boat is less wide than the door, etc. I have limited wing space in my theatre, so I didn't want the boat to take up too big of a footprint, however it is simple enough to just lean the boat onto it's side to store it off stage. Anyways...This video is to help people in a method, but folks can certainly make it as wide, long, or as deep as they need it to be. Hope the video is helpful though. You can get back to me about more specifics if you want to. Thanks for watching.
@@heypete1827 Hey, thank you so much for the response!
We run on specifics, so like.. the angle degree, the distance from bottom to tip, how the bracings we're made and the dimensions of them.. usually when we have those kinds of dimensions we can adjust up or down accordingly to fit the stage/door space.
We will use what we can visually see if your design and calculate what we can. Your boat is amazingly designed, and I hope we can bang one out that looks half as good!
@@jonathanwood399 Cool, Jonathan. Let me know how it all goes.
Going of your drawing the final dimensions of the boat are 4’ wide by 8’ long, does that sound correct? I’m planning on making this for little mermaid jr. and may want to size it down
Yeah, that sounds right. I cut the top out of a sheet of plywood with those dimensions, so if my memory serves me, that's what I did. 4' x 8' sounds correct.
I think you could totally size it down and make it work just fine.
What did you use to make the braces?
Hi GC Bunky. Those were just shaped out of 1" x6" pine, if memory serves.
@@heypete1827 Thanks so much!
@@1973bunky Right on!
We built one! Thanks so much for this video! Wish I could post a pic here. Turned out great! Thanks again!
@@discsmd Sa-Weeet! Glad this helped in some small way!
How tall are the braces
Greetings. We just put the boat away into storage so I can't really help you at the moment. We did just use it for our version of Pinocchio. This prop gets a lot of use by us. I think that if you take an educated guess on the height of the braces, you'll be in the ball park.
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