When we were young, spirited, energized, and full of stamina: while I was a few months into my second year of film school I was hired to design and build a mausoleum set for a low-budget Toronto-produced horror feature film called Graveyard Shift.
My workshop was located in the labyrinthian, and long-abandoned, old Massey Ferguson factory complex on King Street West. It was cozy warm, fairly small, but just the right place where my helpers — Chris Leger, Dave Fiacconi, Mark Lang — and I could build our low-budget, but ultimately effective on screen, set piece. (The set's materials cost the production a low $450.00.)
After a day of classes, I'd don my "builders' clothing", and swing and saw.
Postscript: Jerry Ciccoritti, Graveyard Shift's director, was easy to work with as he understood art and design. When I showed him my initial set sketches at the production office, he asked me to make my mausoleum's columns more 'Ionic' than 'Doric'. I was impressed! (We ended up renting Doric columns from the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.)
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That was October of 1985... Forty (40) years ago. Please no....
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