Well enough with formalities, lets get down into the nitty gritty of that intermediate project that was done a while back, shall we?
This is a camera that I had built for Berry College Theatre Company's first production this year, The Fantasticks. With the go ahead from Dr. Grout, I turned it in as my intermediate project in the class. There were two reasons why I wanted this to be my intermediate project. The first being that it shares the same spirit of a prototype and the second being that almost every element to the camera was made from found objects from around the scene shop.
Lets talk prototype first. When building props for a show, a lot of the time the prop only has to look a certain way but it may not have to actually work. This is what this camera did. It looked similar to the Kintograph camera that I was designing it to look like, but it does not actually record film. This being similar to a prototype. A prototype may not look as pretty as it could or it may have some bugs to fix, but most importantly, it is a start to an idea.
Secondly, and probably my favorite element to this project would have to be how it was assembled. The only thing that was purchased for this project was the tripod that it sits on. The tripod was actually the base of a lamp that we found to be much cheaper than just purchasing a tripod. Less money spent is always a good this so we jumped at that chance to get it. Everything else on the camera were things that could be found laying around the scene shop and in props storage.
The base of the camera was an old trunk that was found in storage. The handle was pulled off and the rest of the body was painted. The lens was then end of a steel pipe, the eye piece was a rubber stopper and the crank was made from some wood scrap that we had in the shop. The crank works and the trunk is still able to be opened but most importantly, it still looked pretty awesome onstage.
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