Last month I posted two pieces (Picturing: Me at the Graveyard Shift Workshop and Picturing: Reopened Graveyard Shift Contact Sheet) on a set design job I had very early in my career... so early that I had only just started my second year of film school. Actually, I had been hired during the summer break. It all happened so fast, which is not exactly atypical in film production, certainly not low budget feature film production. "Toronto" was just beginning to hum at that time — mid 1980s. It would soon explode with feature film and television production.
Here below are a few photographs taken during the mausoleum construction phase, and its setting up in the film studio. The set build happened at the old and long-abandoned Massey Fergusson plant on King Street. The studio itself, located on lower George Street, was small, with a too-low ceiling ("That is not sixteen feet!"), but somehow we made it all work. As is typical of the form, we had no choice. Kudos to that great crew, many of whom worked for little or no money. But it was valuable and great experience — and a great experience.
Set builder Dave Fiacconi takes a break for the camera.
I check to see if Dave is level headed.
I hang on for dear life while the crew works to prep the set in the studio.
Chris Leger paints after building some pyro charges into a tombstone.
Set builder Rae Crombie paints some details into the mausoleum set.
The set build crew works their magic. (The shoot starts in hours.)
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