Kate Buchan

Just dug up a few photos from the About Face shoot, graffiti skills, angry toast and an angry bollard shadow, unfortunately the last didn’t make it into the film as we ran out of sun

Production I’m currently working on as props master and stage manager for Kelvin Players.

I had such great fun with this film written and directed by Joey Beard, Lego is a great medium for film and gives lots of opportunities to make tiny props and arrange miniature scenes. I loved making the tiny placards and the height chart for the Lego ladies. The stone age scene was a bit tricky to get with all the dinosaurs moving at the same time and not falling over, all while I was crammed into a small shed doorway trying not to hit the camera while placing them!

Cast and crew shot from our 2016 entry into the London Sci-Fi 48 hour challenge. This year our Title was Sweet Caress, which we took rather literally and I got to have some fun in the sweet shop. I had a ball with these guys sourcing props and set dressing.

This shoot was in 2015 but is still ongoing.

I made some play dough and wrapped it around a couple of chunks of wood to make the main blocks, then wrapped them in thick blue bin liners and taped them together. The circuit board is from an old freeview box with a few holes drilled in it to allow for some battery powered lights to poke through and the phone is and old display one that some Tesco staff kindly let me have.

It was lot of hard work and a little stressful at times, especially finding the sofa, but I was really pleased with the final outcome. The show was a big hit and sold out every night. 

Halloween pumpkins I’ve made the last two years. Not strictly anything to do with film or theatre but crafty all the same.

Kelvin Players Theatre Company, Tartuffe by Moliere in the Tobacco Factory summer 2015. A little action on stage and my props table back stage. There weren’t too many props to get for this one but I did have to make a few letters on parchment paper and get to grips with sealing wax, not as easy to use as I thought but it may have been because I was using a button to stamp into the wax. It had a perfect pattern on it but lots of fiddly detail for wax to get stuck in if you stamped too soon. 

The film unfortunately didn’t get shortlisted but we were all very pleased to find it did get an honourable mention and was screened in London!

Bearded Gnomes make a come back with a typically whimsical short film about pareidolia. Written & Directed by Joanna Beard and Paul Thomson. Cinematography a…

The finished article. Inside and outside of the ginger bread house, with real cake sprinkles, for a small touring production of Hansel and Gretel the Opera. Summer 2014.

The outside of the gingerbread cottage coming together. 

Inside of the witch's house for Hansel and Gretel. Work in progress...