My biggest job was writing out and sticking on all the labels, then aging and distressing the archive boxes for the decades of Yorkshire Ripper case files. These boxes obviously went to one pf the prop houses afterwards and I see them pop up all the time, often in the most inappropriate programmes! (copyright Revolution Films/Film Four)
I cut out and applied all the frosted fablon to obscure the windows and doors in the police station. This was something I'd never done before, so some of my first attempts were a total disaster, but by about the tenth window pane I'd really got the hang of it. (copyright Revolution Films/Film Four)
Another tedious job that I think everyone was quite happy I was there to do was making this hotel key cubby. I made and attached all the shelf numbers, screwed in the hooks, attached the key numbers to the fobs, then married up the right keys to the right numbers. At least it got a close up! (copyright Revolution Films/Film Four)
A very eerie scene (shot in South Yorkshire, quite near where I grew up!) involved children wearing homemade masks shooting at one one of the characters with toy guns. (copyright Revolution Films/Film Four)
The brief was to make them as disturbing as possible, but still obviously made by kids from cardboard and papier mache. Starting my career as I meant to go on! (copyright Revolution Films/Film Four)
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Red Riding:1980 (TV Drama, 2008)
This was my first ever role as a props trainee. I had no idea what I was doing and I think the team were a bit confused about what to do with me too! But once they realised my talent for handicrafts and boring, repetative tasks, I was on my way.
As well as the things pictured here, I knitted various baby clothes (for a character and storyline that were almost entirely cut from the finished show!) mounted crime scene photos, made Christmas decorations and did loads and loads of cleaning
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Freelance, Full-time
Lucy Bullen
Prop Maker, Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Sheffield, United Kingdom