Case Study: The Prop Store
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The Prop Store
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The Prop Store is one of Melbourne’s leading prop hire and rental facilities for Corporate Events, theatre and film. With individual careers in film, theatre, props and costume making, together they have a wealth of creative experience within their small team of three: Suki Ibbetson – Owner/director, Annette Ringrose-Manager and Julie Renton-Assistant. The Prop Store brings both imagination and an eye for detail to creative custom design, construction and installation for events.
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Westpac Banking Corporation Melbourne Office Launch
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The Prop Store was given the brief of recreating the distinctive feel of the city of Melbourne for Westpac Banking Corporation’s Melbourne Office Launch.
Drawing on inspiration from five distinct areas of Melbourne; MCG, Brighton Bathing Boxes, Spring Racing, Melbourne’s unique laneways and the new Melbourne head office for Westpac, The Prop Store needed to look at an alternative and easy way to recreate the feel and texture of Melbourne’s landscapes and street-scapes without the time and expense of having the interior walls of the venue painted.
On top of this, they were faced with the added challenge to create a backdrop large enough to transform the look of the venue and create an impressive entrance to the event.
The Prop Store Owner/Director Suki Ibbetson, then started her search for alternative and easier ways to do this without painting a backdrop, and came across BannerSHOP.
“BannerSHOP has a user- friendly website, I was able to do a quote online and work out a budget for the job. Like most jobs we have, I do extensive research online, but in my line of work I like to hone in on local suppliers. BannerSHOP being in Port Melbourne was a good reason for choosing them.
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Being close by, I could pop down and have a look at samples, ask any questions if I had any. So I went down to the BannerSHOP office and discussed my requirements with them. They proved to be very helpful”, said Suki.
Suki then commissioned BannerSHOP to produce custom fabric backdrops: 4800mm x 2700mm, 2400mm x 2700mm, printed on Single Sided Blockout fabric with Velcro at the top and sewn in pockets for weighing rods at the bottom. These backdrops were perfect in size to hide the bar at the venue and helped to re-create the Melbourne Laneways for the entrance to the launch event – see image below.
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 BannerSHOP s Staff were very helpful and made the process very easy - I was able to touch-base every day and get a daily update on the production process. I never had to wonder about the progress as I was always kept in the loop. Suki said.
Sometimes working with a new supplier can be quite stressful. Suki went on to explain; “Having not worked with BannerSHOP previously I was a little nervous in regards to the required 4-5 day turn-around time, but everything was done very quickly and smoothly.
With these types of events you pretty much finish as the client walks in so there was no room for error and we were very impressed with the way BannerSHOP delivered on all areas.
The Prop Store now has beautifully designed and created backdrops that can be used again and again, and could even be hired out for other events. Suki concluded BannerSHOP definitely met my expectations, they delivered on time, and really impressed with quality of print.
BannerSHOP pulled off what I designed, that’s all I ever ask of my suppliers to be able to deliver on. So as more jobs arise I anticipate that we will be doing more work with BannerSHOP in the future. In fact we have a job with them in the next 3 days
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The Prop Store Corporate History
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The Prop Store was founded in 2000 and started up by Suki Ibberton (Owner/Director), after seeing a need for a stock of basic ‘real’ props whilst art directing TV commercials. The Prop Store is a total hire prop hire service to the film, theatre, exhibition and events industries and are the main attraction for production designers, photographers, stylists, theatre groups, corporate events clients whilst providing themed party props for ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ – Yours.
The Prop Store team have a wealth of experience across the film and theatre industry, props and costume making and their team of three have a great imagination and eye for detail in providing creative custom design, construction and installation of your event.
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