A Day at the Prophouses

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A Day at the Prophouses
2008-04-13 3:33AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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I am currently working on a small Music Video and had to look for some props yesterday.

In order to have a successful prop haunting day I needed:

1. A car.
2. Research photos of props my director and singer wanted.
3. A GPS (Global Positioning System).
4. Good music in the car.
5. Sunglasses.
6. A beverage for the long day.
7. Digital camera or phone to send the photos.
8. A checklist of the props.
9. Addresses of all prop houses or vendors.

Okay, off I go! Today we are looking to rent vintage cars (circa 1970s), vintage guitars with aged wood body and metal front plate (Dobros or Gretsch), and more...

Dobro guitars...but the one I want is out on a movie...boo! I shall continue.

1960s Gretsch guitars. Score! They look good too. Possibilities.

Hum...I think I have enough choices for the maracas. I have to find out what colors they are interested in. Oval or round shaped ones? Hum...

Phone anyone? What period do you need? There is an entire isle...

Period cereals! How cool...but not on my list.

Ooo ready to go cakes! Yummy.

Toy robot section...

Cafe chairs on the roof and lots of signage.

Hi, here is me in the hallway of funny mirrors...also not on my list. I hope my producer does not see this and find out I was having too much fun on the job.

Chinatown set? No wonder they always look so bad...yikes...

Last stop of the day was...Guitar Center. I thought with the high rental prices, maybe I can just buy a Gretsch guitar. Here is my find.

Well, it was a busy day of driving around and prop haunting...now let's see what the director says!

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Pat Lee
留言於2008-05-29 3:17AM [举报]

Woah those guitars are awesome.
Ivy Lam
留言於2008-04-16 3:18PM [举报]

what? they don't bake actual cakes for the movies? ;)
stephen
留言於2008-04-14 2:07AM [举报]

It'd be good to do a movie scene that just took place inside the prop house...
janechu
留言於2008-04-14 1:26AM [举报]

OMG!!!~ I remember these!!~ that shows how much cereal packaging designs have changed... hahaa...
rottendoubt
留言於2008-04-13 10:00PM [举报]

the cereal boxes are the coolest!
JoanneSanderson
留言於2008-04-13 5:23PM [举报]

Oh cool, I'd have a heyday in there. Good prop guitar choice.
peachey
留言於2008-04-13 10:25AM [举报]

A prop shop looks like a fantastic place to hang around and reminisce. haha. For a regular joe like me.
Sean Tierney
留言於2008-04-13 9:16AM [举报]

Were the Gretschs and Dobros prop rentals, or was that a vintage guitar shop? Why not call Brian Setzer and ask to borrow one? He's got a pile of them, and he just might do it!
許潔華
留言於2008-04-13 4:12AM [举报]

girl, did u see those ukuleles above the Dobro guitars! so cool!
Wendy Cheng
留言於2008-04-13 3:59AM [举报]

Lucky you get to buy guitars! I love those period cereals. Is that all from a prop house? What is it called? Neato stuff.

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Chia-Yi Renée Chao creates architecture and environments for film and television...
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Chia-Yi Renée Chao creates architecture and environments for film and television. She studied architecture as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, and continued her graduate studies in Set & Production Design at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Following her studies, Renée began production designing short films and assisting in the art departments of various feature films.

Her first job in film was being the P.A. in production designer Thérèse DePrez’s art department on How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, then she moved on to set decorating for production designer Eloise Crane Stammerjohn on Falling for Grace (Tribeca Film Festival 2006), and handling props on director Jeff Lipsky’s Flannel Pajamas (Sundance Film Festival 2006). She put together her first production design portfolio with her design work on numerous shorts which included, Missing (Shorts- Cannes Film Festival 2005), The Hill (Toronto International Film Festival 2004), Mr. A (Student Academy Award Nominee 2008), and Vacation (Best Production Design- Columbia University Film Festival 2007).

After three years of designing for short films and on-set art department experiences, Renée began designing for independent features, music videos, and commercials in New York and Los Angeles. Her credits included: independent feature films Greetings from the Shore, Quarter Life Crisis, and Killer by Nature, music videos for Billy Ray Cyrus’s Wanna Be Your Joe and William Baldé’s Rayon de Soleil and commercials for Do Co Mo Wireless and State Farm Insurance.

Shortly after moving from New York to Los Angeles, Renée began work on her first action film as the Supervising Art Director for production designer Nathan Amondson and producer Bill Kong on Blood: The Last Vampire. She then in the same year collaborated again with director Kit Hui in Hong Kong as the production designer on Fog (霧) (Best Visual Achievement- SFIAAFF 2010).

In 2008, after spending merely three months in Los Angeles with her husband the year prior due to on location film shoots, Renée decided to take a hiatus from design and start a family. She landed the Shop Manager position at 41 Sets, a set construction shop located in Hollywood owned by Doug Jeffery. Ironically, she suddenly found herself on the other side of the set design business, chasing designers for more detailed drawings and money, coordinating with vendors and crews to meet productions’ tight deadlines, and learning how much it really cost to deliver finished scenery in Hollywood.

As of October 2012, Renée has relaunched her website, artbychao.com and is freelancing again as a production designer and art director for film and television. She resides in Pasadena, CA with her husband and two very active boys.

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