Post by indakin on Jan 24, 2007 23:08:44 GMT -5
Hey guys im currently interning with a designer/illustrator nammed Ross MacDonald, who has made movie book props for films like Van Helsing, The Legend of Zorro, The Alamo, and a few others i cant remember. He has an old printing press and made many posters and flyers in movie shots for those films. He makes books from scratch as well , and creates all the pages with real information, and then ages them like we all do with props.
My teacher recommended a friend and I to work with him on his newest project, National Treasure 2. Currently we are working on John Wilkes Boothes Diary, a book of Presidental Secrets that is passed down from one president to the next and contains things like Roswell or Kennedy's assination (lots of coverup info), and a few other minor props. The diary and book are supposed to be main hero props in this film and should get a good amount of air time. They should be just as important as the declaration was in the first film.
Currently i made a few mock ups of Booths diary from paper and the head propmasters looking them over for approvals. I will basically be making alot of the diary on my own. My friend has put together alot of the pages and insert info. We have hi res shots of the real diary from the secret service. I dont want to say too much yet about the props purposes or the script sections i was allowed to read, but i thought it was pretty cool that im getting to help with something like this.
A good reason i was picked is because he heard i do this kind of thing for fun. I actually found him leather for the diary since he couldnt find the right colors himself. Should have the leather by tomororw and can actually start making the real prop. We have to make about 4 diarys with about 20 inserts of the written pages for multiple takes since some distruction will be taking place with the diary. The diary is actually more like a 3 fold checkbook with pockets and such, its not just an indy diary.
I told him alot about my SW love and Indy too and he actually wants a wested now lol. I wrote to my contacts at LFL and told them a bout Ross and asked if they needed help with props for indy 4. MY contact wasnt sure if they did, but she gave me the contact info. We will contact them tomorrow i hope and might have a chance on working on some indy 4 film props. They usually make a map or book or something like that for the films, so why not try and see if we can make them.
Thought i would share with you guys, cause its pretty dam cool getting to be apart of this. Especially this film since its like Indy in a way. Ill try to keep u all posted.
My teacher recommended a friend and I to work with him on his newest project, National Treasure 2. Currently we are working on John Wilkes Boothes Diary, a book of Presidental Secrets that is passed down from one president to the next and contains things like Roswell or Kennedy's assination (lots of coverup info), and a few other minor props. The diary and book are supposed to be main hero props in this film and should get a good amount of air time. They should be just as important as the declaration was in the first film.
Currently i made a few mock ups of Booths diary from paper and the head propmasters looking them over for approvals. I will basically be making alot of the diary on my own. My friend has put together alot of the pages and insert info. We have hi res shots of the real diary from the secret service. I dont want to say too much yet about the props purposes or the script sections i was allowed to read, but i thought it was pretty cool that im getting to help with something like this.
A good reason i was picked is because he heard i do this kind of thing for fun. I actually found him leather for the diary since he couldnt find the right colors himself. Should have the leather by tomororw and can actually start making the real prop. We have to make about 4 diarys with about 20 inserts of the written pages for multiple takes since some distruction will be taking place with the diary. The diary is actually more like a 3 fold checkbook with pockets and such, its not just an indy diary.
I told him alot about my SW love and Indy too and he actually wants a wested now lol. I wrote to my contacts at LFL and told them a bout Ross and asked if they needed help with props for indy 4. MY contact wasnt sure if they did, but she gave me the contact info. We will contact them tomorrow i hope and might have a chance on working on some indy 4 film props. They usually make a map or book or something like that for the films, so why not try and see if we can make them.
Thought i would share with you guys, cause its pretty dam cool getting to be apart of this. Especially this film since its like Indy in a way. Ill try to keep u all posted.
Would you be able to make me a blank book?