Fashion: Day 5: 'Strike' Day

Before going into strike the set, Sacha and I drove in to Maidstone to take back the corner table we borrowed from a shop. When we arrived back, Lucie, Ian and Martin had already removed the panelling, skirting and dado rail, removed the door, taken down the walls & disassembled the window.
 

Disassembled Window

 We decided to do it this we as Sacha and I are the leads in props, casting and fashion so thought it was best to let the build, health and safety and lighting leads take down most of the set (so we did not get in the way) while we organised removal of the props and arranging issues with the fashion to be resolved.
As most of the lighting and the littler props had already been taken down and removed yesterday to make it easier for us to work today there were only a couple of major things to do. We began by taking down the space light, Lucie, Ian, Steve and I carefully removed the space light from the goal posts and off of the pole which Lucie then returned to the lighting area in studio 2. We then removed all of the props from the studio which were put in the gallery space on the ground floor which were later picked up by Sacha's boyfriend, Jack at 4pm who took them back to the places we borrowed them from for a donation. Due to previous arrangements when picking up our props Jack also dropped off tree branches and stumps needed as props for two group's set build next week which Sacha, Jack & Lucie took up to studio 1.
I vaccuumed the borrowed carpetting which we then rolled up, and took down the polyboards we used to black out behind the camera as well as the colorama and black out material.
Some of our props have been left in the studio out of the way of next week's group for another group's set build, this includes, the door, skirting board & the side table which is being used in week three.

Finally I re-hoovered the whole studio due to the dirt that came off of the carpet when taken away.

Striked Set

Unfortunately during the shoot what we believe to be hairspray residue and eyelash glue got on to the dress which we had planned to return to the shop we pruchased it from for a 90% refund. Sacha and I went down to fashion today to see if we could get any advice on how to remove the marks to return it. The member of staff we found was very helpful and explained that she had a product to remove sticky stuff from clothing, therefore we will return on Monday to try out this product. She also said that chalk may work on the hairspray marks which look like grease stains as it would absorb it so we will also try this out; otherwise we will take the dress to a dry cleaners which should be able to easily remove the marks.