I need some suggestions on what I should do for a ninja's hideout all I want is black walls on all 4 sides with an opening and two black sheets hanging for the entrance/exit. How should I get these walls? I thought about just hanging black sheets on 4 sides of a room but it isn't the look I want. What would you guys suggest should I build the walls and if so how or if you have other ideas please tell me I NEED HELP QUICK!!!

Um . . . balck walls . . .

I got hold of some black cloth that theyused in theaters and used that for flat black walls, but unless their giving away torn stuff, or you got moola's your not getting hold of that.

could you get flat black paint and paint on some carboard?

you mentioned what look you didn't want, but what look DO you want? And, what kind of a budget are you dealing with? $10? $100? $1000???

Fabric would be rad. You can buy "craft felt" that's 72" wide for about 5 bucks a yard. One way to make it look cool would be to staple it back on itself (making folds) This will give it a ruffled look. Another option would be to hang those black sheets you metioned you didn't want, but then break them up with some 1x2s painted in a different color (maybe just grey?). mount them vertically every 12-48 inches. Or, create six foot tall by three foot with black pannels (with sheets on a frame or with 1/8" masonite or cardboard or whatever). Then mount them to the wall, spaced about a foot apart from each other and six inches off the wall. Then, light behind the panels so the light will spill onto the walls behind your black panels but you never see the light source. That's three ideas off the top of my head.

***and for the future, this should go in Production, not script writing.

The look I want would be very plain and drab but kind of an old look maybe even dungeon like I have samurai swords and skulls some voodoo type dolls hanging and and candles galore set around so the walls should be very plain and totally black, also sorry for the wrong post in the section it just labeled this as set building so I assumed this belonged here.

I think this forum is fine. Its screenwriting AND pre-production which includes "film planning, film budgeting, set building, etc"

Alright cool, so anyone else have any suggestions?

Sorry I seem so interested. I design, build and dress sets for a living and this is like out of the box problem solving for me. Hopefully others will respond too.
You can buy black bamboo pretty cheap (pier 1 imports about 4 bucks for a 7 foot piece). Use it as accents on the wall or even build sword holders with it (or maybe a table?). Also, painting 3-4' lengths of butcher paper with large Japanese characters and then aging the signs down is practically free. Rocks and Incense (positioned so you can see the smoke) might be nice. The candles would be a nice touch. Could you somehow fashion tea candles inside the skulls you have? That would be cool hanging from the wall. Or doing the martha stewart thing where you hang candles from the ceiling might be a nice touch. As for the walls, if you want to add texture, but keep it black. Get sheets of masonite (because it's cheap) and paint it with a black stain. You'll still get the grain. And to make it more drab, with a dry paint brush, paint with very little paint and long brush strokes. This will give faint grey streaks that will make it look more 'real' and old.

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Originally posted by titaniumdoughnut:
" set building, etc"

Sorry. It's not really any of my business anyway. I guess I never understood why set building was lumped in with film planning and budgeting. So then lighting, camera setup (including purchase questions), audio purchase and setup, and all the other stuff that happens before the camera rolls should go here too? I know it doesn't really matter, but I'm just curious.