stage props

"Engaging images accompany information about on-screen vehicles"--Provided by publisher.

Text and illustrations provide a collection of movie prop and special effects projects.

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating frightful Halloween props.

Nancy and her friends search for a prop that's gone missing from a movie set in this interactive mystery.

Learn what is required to get a set ready for opening night, and how job skills developed on the stage can translate into a career that is always in high demand.

Throughout the making of the eight Harry Potter movies, designers and craftspeople were tasked with creating fabulous chocolate-fantasy feasts, flying brooms, enchanted maps, and much more, in addition to numerous magical items necessary in a wizard everyday life--for example, newspapers with moving photos, vicious textbooks, and Howlers. Harry Potter: The Artifact Vault chronicles the work of the graphics department in creating vibrant and imaginative labels for potions bottles, brooms, and candy; the creation of Quidditch Quaffles, Bludgers, and Golden Snitches, lovingly crafted by the prop making team; and the stunning inventiveness used by the entire crew to create a rich, bewitched filmic universe.

Provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions on how to create special effects for the stage without breaking the budget, discussing a variety of disciplines, including lighting, sound, scenic effects, costumes, transformations, make-up, pyrotechnics, fire, and others.

Behind-the-scenes photographs profile the cars featured in the movie "The Fast and the Furious" and describe how the stunts were performed.