Set Crafts
This Advanced Level Apprenticeship is suited for practical people who have an interest in the arts and entertainment industry.
From big budget movies to the West End, constructed sets and background scenery play a crucial role in any production. In fact, you'll almost never see a film or play without a set of some sort.
Set Crafts apprentices play an important behind-the-scenes role in helping to create these sets for theatrical and film productions (depending on your employer) – this could include building platforms, assembling backdrops, and constructing other set pieces required for a specific performance.
Apprentices will have the choice to specialise in certain stages of set construction. You could be a Set Carpenter. Working in both the workshop and on set, Set Carpenters are responsible for producing, assembling, dismantling and removing a variety of structures, ranging from onscreen props such as window frames and staircases, through to replica spacecraft or medieval ships.
Or you could be a Set Plasterer, who, as well as applying plaster to walls, ceilings and floors, would create a wide range of key structures and props. Set Plasterers usually specialise in either fixing up the plasterwork on set and distressing it or making models and moulds in workshops.
After successful completion of this Advanced Level Apprenticeship, apprentices could be working in a specialised workshop in a theatre or in a larger commercial scene shop that supplies scenic elements to major film productions.
Job Roles
Advanced Level Apprenticeship
- Set Carpenter
- Set Plasterer
Last Updated: 16/05/2012
