How a backdrop gets made.
- 01
We Ask About the Room First
Ceiling height, how far back a camera will stand, where the doors are and what the wall behind is made of. A backdrop sized from a floor plan alone is the one that turns up and does not fit the space it was made for.
- 02
The Size Comes From the Photograph
For a press wall, the useful measurement is how many people stand in front of it and how wide the shot is. Too narrow and the logo falls outside the frame at either end, which is the most common and most expensive mistake in this category.
- 03
Fabric or Vinyl Is Decided by Lighting
Under strong event lighting, vinyl reflects and produces a hot spot across the middle of every photograph. Fabric scatters the light instead. For anything being photographed we steer firmly towards fabric.
- 04
It Is Built So One Crew Can Erect It
Frames are specified around what two people can put up without a lift. A backdrop needing four people and a ladder is a backdrop that goes up late.
- 05
It Is Assembled Here Before It Ships
Every frame is built in the workshop, the graphic fitted and checked for tension, then taken apart and packed. Finding a short pole or a mislabelled section on site costs an hour nobody has.
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Packed in the Order It Goes Up
Cases are numbered and labelled by section, so an installer works through them in sequence instead of unpacking everything to find the right piece.
We will say this plainly. A backdrop that arrives folded in a bag will have creases, and creases photograph badly under hard lighting. Allow a day of hanging, or ask us to deliver it on its frame.
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