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Old 07-07-2008, 09:06 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Myself and a friend rebuilt a room to be used as a studio in the similar way that you are looking at, and we found that if putting wires under the floor, it is better putting trap doors in every so often than just small holes, as it makes life easier getting the hands underneath to pull the cables through.

Another thing we did was to place curtain rails around the ceiling so we could hang backgrounds of different coloured materials.

One thing that I would say is create a system for pushing air underneath the floor, you don't really need too much of pressure, but just to keep the air recirculating, as you don't want the hardware or wiring looms you have below floor level shutting down, or failing due to overheating.

What I would have done, given hindsight, is to paint the ceiling blue, and use a fairly high powered light bounced off of there and use reflectors do direct it, thus giving the impression of shooting in sunlight all the time.

If I could remember what I did with the design plans then I would let you have them, but I cannot remember where they are off hand. I think they are still in England...
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