Set dressing tips

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

Looking for some creative input-

Here at school, myself and fellow crew members are almost finished building a large corridor set, in one of our soundstages. Next, we will begin texturing the walls, to add realism and texture to the flats.

The 11'x12' wilds are covered with a wood/faux type brick panelling, that basically looks like this: ( though, much more glossy and the white edges are black)

Upon installation, we discovered the panels looked very...unrealistic. So, I ask you- What type of texturing could we do to the panels to make them look like this?

Basically, we want a very grungy, aged, dirty brick...Something that looks to have beem standing for dozens of years...

Also, we have partitions covered in white wallpaper, painted to the color we want, but we want the edges/holes to appear aged and warped...How can we texture or affect the wallpaper to make it appear old/water damaged/molded, etc. Like this:

Budget isn't too much of a concern, but feel free to think of "creative" approaches. Thanks!

 

[rsbush]

Bricks: Easy. Paint and spackle. Tint the spackle to taste, throw in a little sand.

Wallpaper: Water, spackle knife, sandpaper. Water will lift the wallpaper. Scar it up with spackle knife & sandpaper revealing paint layers underneath.

Age both to taste with a watery raw umber tinted glaze with a little white paint to add some pigment. It should look like dirty water. Spray it on and let it do it's thing.

Or hire a set painter to do it for you.

 

[-zach-]

Or you can dip the tip of a wide brush into black paint and make it so dry by painting on other wood or paper that you have to really push on the brush to get black out. Then you can paint little wisps of black as a base for the techniques mentioned above.

Also, if they're the correct foam material, you can use a specific type of acid to eat away at the foam in the places that it's applied, and then you can paint what is left.

(we did this on a project with foam walls, I don't specifically remember what we did.)