Set Painting 1992-1993
spread out: on the Sony lot in Culver City, on location
throughout Los Angeles and Long Beach, and we were
working 12 hour days, 7 day workweeks. Some of the
sets I worked on that aren't listed below are: the
"police dept. headquarters" interior, "Danny's apartment"
interior, "Danny's schoolroom", the "LaBrea Tar Pit",
the "Cineplex Odeon Theater" (World Pemiere) interior
sets, and bondo-ing the string of crash and squib-hole
damaged vehicles during the course of the shoot.
On the "Hamlet" set; I painted the
drippings to match the candles
value, dust aged and highlighted
curtains, painted and overglazed the
stone walls, including a breakaway
wall.
The "Hamlet" set was filmed in B & W,
pigmented paint was used in
painting these faux stone walls and
floors.
This house exterior was built on an empty lot in
East LA for the exclusive purpose of this shot.
The interior was pre-scored and painted black to
promote the explosion effect and its structural
collapse. The exterior was painted and aged, I
painted and overglazed the faux cement walkway
and used a conventional spraygun to paint the
interior flat black.
The "mafia funeral" set, built 200' up
on the rooftop of the Hyatt Regency
Long Beach, CA. I had to wear a full
body harness and be anchored in while
working on the edges of the rooftop.
This was one of several sets I worked
on with Richard Girod Jr.'s paint crew,
on location in Long Beach. We worked
in tents producing the red lacquer set
surfaces by day, by night we slept in the
Hyatt- the crew's home for the duration
of the shoot, winter of 1992-1993.
The roof top red gave way to the elevator escape: this stunt
elevator took hours of prep; bondo-ing, sanding and painting,
with its structural safety a high priority.
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