Hey everyone and welcome to BFX. To show the kids new cheap solutions for your special effects challenges. This week we are building prop furniture?
Break Away Furniture
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This week we are tackling one of our most requested projects ever. Sorry guys but I am not talking about halo armor. I am talking bout collapsible prop furniture and it was requested by KevinAZ, Commando42, Kirk, LyhopProductions,Whitennerdy2damax, Kirk Meyers, Farisp, TheGman, Barb2692, David Pascroo, Hejhog101, Ampix0, Kicky G, Dilbot 23, Tinokiev, and NinjaJeff.
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Shopping List: Cardboard, scrap wood, duct tape, spray glue, and card board tubes.
I am going to show you how to make a chair and a two-tear end table. The chair starts with super thin fiber board I found then cut into a seat and backrest. To brace this pieces I cut some cardboards and spray glued it into place. To create the legs, I cut strips of cardboard into long trapezoids. If you glue four o f these together it makes a decently strong chair leg. Four legs with four strips of card board per leg makes 16 pieces, so start cutting. I made the front legs 17 inches tall and the back 21. This way I can notch the back legs at 17 inches and they will provide support for the backrest of the chair. After a test seat, I realize I needed some additional bracing. So I added some narrow scrap wood between the front and back leg. Use duct tape liberally to attach your legs and add a paint job and you are done.
The end table is super easy. Grab four poster shipping tubes and some card board and some scrap wood or scrap wood that you cut into equal squares. Cut your tubes at about 18 inches and stock everything like so. Use hot glue sparingly to put everything together. You do not want it to be too strong then give it a paint job. You are done.
Like all my builds this one has a sense of improvisation but there is a very important rule to maintain when building prop furniture and that is never put anything potentially dangerous inside that furniture. Before you add every piece ask yourself, would I want a fall on this? Is it too pointy? Is it really hard or sharp? For example, I was going to put on this little metal L brackets to support the back piece of the chair and I got to figure that it could go right through and my actor might be a little upset if his back side was punctured with a 1-inch piece of metal.
I am very pleased to announce that this week’s test film was guest directed by Anthony Carbonie and John Rivera of Evil Primate and features a real actress not just us dumb guys.
Test Film:
Female: These are beautiful. I hope you like Italian food because I—dinner served. Oh, oh God, just sit and—
(Demonstration)
Alright everybody, that is it for this week but do not forget that the episode in two weeks, this is our one year anniversary celebration.
We are looking back at your favorite IndyMogul memories and showing off your video birthday cards. So make sure you can get them in. the deadline is Sunday, May 11. We will see you next week for a regular show.
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Ethan: Make sure to always keep your video files organized. Nothing is worst than looking through 3,000 video clips and you cannot find the one you need.
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