Awnings and canopies are often a part of movie sets. You see them on homes and businesses. Working with NYC awning makers is the easy way to obtain these important set pieces for any size production — TV commercials, a series, feature films, even corporate videos. You can get exactly what you want, for interiors or exteriors, whether you’re shooting on location or in the studio, entire street scenes or tight close-ups.
NYC awning makers can fabricate products for any genre. They can create full-size awnings or make them smaller to scale. Whether awnings and canopies are the centerpiece of your scene or background dressing that subtly sets the stage, NYC awning makers can give your production the look you want.
Working with NYC awning makers saves valuable production time, because your awnings are on set and ready to go when you’re ready to roll.
Think Alice’s Restaurant: you can get anything you want.
Awnings have evolved since the 1800s, and NYC awning makers know how to recreate historically authentic awnings for any era, from turn of the century to the next millennium.
You can get bare framing for old-time winter scenes, and add canvas covering for warmer seasons. Get the swanky shapes and fabric colors introduced in the ’20s and ’30s, aluminum awnings that were all the rage in the ’50s and ’60s, any-image-anywhere graphics and off-the-wall custom shapes often seen on today’s awnings.
NYC awning makers can build free-standing canopies that create porticoes and walkway covers for hotel or apartment building entrances and cover sidewalk cafés. They can “age” your awning, and they can incorporate lighting options. They can give you awnings that will be fixed in place or functionally retractable, with an old-fashioned crank or high-tech remote-control.
NYC awning makers can design and fabricate custom structures beyond awnings and canopies – virtually any fixture with a fabric covering. That huge coffee cup you see atop Dunkin Donuts’ entrance is technically part of their awning. Need a fabric-clad dirigible or a space ship for your set? For NYC awning makers, thematic constructions like made-to-order blimps and larger-than-life coffee cups are just part of the job.
That goes for related products, too – umbrellas, pergolas or spacey looking tension membranes, fabric window walls that offer interesting lighting effects, intricate metal work, matching flags and banners or window dressings.
If you can dream it up, the right NYC awning makers can fabricate it, deliver it and even install it for you. Planning to blow it up? Or burn it down? NYC awning makers can produce multiple identical units, so you can quickly re-rig between takes. No delay, no continuity glitches.
Not all NYC awning makers are right for the role.
Of course you want a partner that’s well-established locally and has a superior reputation for quality workmanship and attentive personal service. But NYC awning makers should also be experienced working with motion picture and television productions, so they can coordinate smoothly with your director, production designer or set decorator.
Insist on a company that belongs to the Set Decorators Society of America and has a close working relationship with IATSE Local 52.
Choose an all-in-one shop that can handle your entire project from concept to completion. One with skilled engineering and design people who can work with whatever you give them, whether that’s detailed specs, a sketch on a cocktail napkin or just an idea in your head. You can expect accuracy down to the smallest detail and photo renderings for pre-production approval. No surprises, get exactly what you envisioned.
On time and on budget.
NYC awning makers understand the meaning of “deadline,” so quick turn-around is never a problem. And they know even the most lavish production has a budget. They can give you the set pieces you need – awnings or other constructions and related matching elements – all guaranteed to give you Oscar-caliber performance and Emmy-winning production values.
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