Scene Doc

I am currently doing some work experience with a company called Scene Doc, which is a prop house that holds alot of everything and anything, for Tv soaps, film companies, Theatre shows etc, to hire out what they need for their show. They have all kinds of thins from furniture to toys to books to flags to pots and pans, carpets, paintings, lighting, medical props, science props, cauldrons (and much much much more), all from different era's.
Its AMAZING being surrounded by it all, because it helps you get a better sense of what living was like (may have been like) in olden times. As a lot of what they have dates back a very long time ago.- It's crazy to think that when I look around, each and every item will have been in the hands of so many other people before us, and each with their own little story too.
My job is to clean and organsie the props in a way that may entice clients to buy, or visualise what they want better, because sometimes they come in and they don't quite know themselves what there after, and it's also not helped by how much stuff there is to look at and take in. It can be quite overwhelming by the amount of stuff there is, and then they don't no where to begin to start looking. So organising the props to make it easier on the eye really does help them quite a lot.
There are a range of different clients that come in, all wanting different things, for what every project they are involved in... Downton Abbey came in on a day I was there and they were looking for some silverware, so I helped clean and polish them up (as they had hundreds of years worth of dirt on them!!) ready for them to take.