A FIELD GUIDE TO THE DETAILS
Everyday carry. Small arms. Adventure paperbacks.
The craft behind the action on screen.
Look closer at the objects, the stories they carry, and the work that makes them convincing.
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A FEW POINTS OF ENTRY
A screen weapon has a physical production identity and a fictional identity. The real object used to make a prop need not share the name, specification or history assigned to it in the story.
Read the articleA pocket dump is a selected display of carried objects. It records what someone presents at a particular moment, rather than measuring every possession or its frequency of use.
Read the articleA managed fiction franchise preserves an identifiable character or series while distributing production across changing contributors. Continuity of the public identity does not require continuity of individual manuscript authorship.
Read the articleTHE TERRITORY
Follow an object from its making to its use, its mythology and its life on screen.
THE APPROACH
What a thing is, how it works, and what its history can actually establish. Each article connects the research and keeps its sources close.
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