Production Planning - Paints Assignment

LateWorking Student (10:56:16 PM): i had a question for you if you aren't busy
LateWorking Prof(10:56:35 PM): k
LateWorking Student (10:56:47 PM): so i know that you would get muslin for the drops correct?
LateWorking Prof(10:57:42 PM): you don't have to bid that
LateWorking Student (10:57:52 PM): ok
LateWorking Student (10:58:07 PM): secondly then
LateWorking Student (10:58:23 PM): to trace the drop/legs/portal to scale
LateWorking Student (10:58:41 PM): can i simply cut it out of the picture in photoshop and make it to scale that way
LateWorking Student (10:58:52 PM): or is that completely....um....2nd grade way to do that
LateWorking Prof(10:59:07 PM): nope
LateWorking Prof(10:59:09 PM): thats fine
LateWorking Prof(10:59:19 PM): or scale it up and down with a xerox machine
LateWorking Prof(10:59:31 PM): dare to be stupid is just fine
LateWorking Student (10:59:36 PM): haha
LateWorking Student (10:59:36 PM): nice
LateWorking Student (10:59:40 PM): and i think finally
LateWorking Student (10:59:55 PM): so im not sure if you remember my painting but we had a portal, 2 legs and then a backdrop
LateWorking Student (11:00:29 PM): however the backdrop was probably 1/4 of how big the portal was, in proportion to width onstage
LateWorking Prof(11:01:01 PM): if you put together a thumbnail of a plan
LateWorking Prof(11:01:21 PM): you'll see that your drop probably has to be big based on what you would need for sightlines
LateWorking Prof(11:01:34 PM): there would have to be some design interpolation to decide what it looks like
LateWorking Prof(11:01:39 PM): but it would have to be there
LateWorking Student (11:01:41 PM): right
LateWorking Student (11:01:44 PM): ok i get it
LateWorking Student (11:02:04 PM): so you are basically "guessing" what the rest of the painting would be, if it were 3-d
LateWorking Student (11:03:12 PM): so the drop ends up being the whole size of the opening, not just what is delineated in the painting
LateWorking Prof(11:03:47 PM): pretty much
LateWorking Student (11:04:09 PM): ok great
LateWorking Student (11:05:35 PM): and as far as lin time for coats of paint drying on muslin, is it more because you are dealing with a porous substance
LateWorking Prof(11:06:11 PM): not really
LateWorking Prof(11:06:19 PM): theres more surface there
LateWorking Prof(11:06:28 PM): so as long as you don't really goop it on
LateWorking Prof(11:06:34 PM): it should dry like you'd expect
LateWorking Student (11:06:45 PM): ok great
LateWorking Student (11:06:57 PM): sorry for the bombardment of questions
LateWorking Student (11:07:07 PM): but do you seal the muslin?
LateWorking Prof(11:07:44 PM): usually they don't seal drops
LateWorking Student (11:07:50 PM): ok great
LateWorking Student (11:07:53 PM): now....i'm done
LateWorking Student (11:07:57 PM): hopefully
LateWorking Student (11:07:59 PM): thanks
LateWorking Student (12:52:19 AM): i have one more question if thats ok
LateWorking Prof(12:53:04 AM): uhhuh
LateWorking Student (12:54:09 AM): if it is all intricate, not just all over painting with one color, how much would you say it would take someone to paint, lets say, 10 square feet
LateWorking Prof(12:55:00 AM): its hard to say without the image
LateWorking Prof(12:55:11 AM): but thats like 3x3
LateWorking Prof(12:55:13 AM): plus a little
LateWorking Prof(12:55:26 AM): think about what you remember from basic design
LateWorking Prof(12:55:30 AM): and from drawing
LateWorking Student (12:55:44 AM): i never took either though
LateWorking Prof(12:58:08 AM): hmm
LateWorking Student (12:58:12 AM): ha
LateWorking Prof(12:59:43 AM): well
LateWorking Prof(12:59:50 AM): this is really a Beth question
LateWorking Student (12:59:52 AM): ok