Designing a place for photos and videos during the holidays is of great importance, because the photos are stored for a long time, sent to different people. The more original and varied the decor, the more memorable will be the pictures remaining after the event. Birthday photo zone is decorated in accordance with the interests of the birthday, his age, gender, occupation. To do this, use materials at hand, carnival costumes and your own imagination.
The photo zone can be open or closed (“photo booth”). The latter option is suitable for a particularly shy birthday man, his guests, while an open space is for everyone. The photo booth is often equipped with appropriate equipment, an outdoor professional photographer takes pictures of the open area.
Photo zone decoration has some features:
Children's party decor is usually different from an adult party;
it is important to think about lighting in advance if part of the celebration takes place in the dark;
all details necessarily correspond to the “occasion” of the party;
birthday photo zone, usually colored, with intricate decor;
a place for a photo must accommodate at least two or three people at a time;
The stylistic decision of such an “attraction” is important to think carefully over.
The main requirement for the photographic area is its mandatory presence in close proximity to the place of celebration.
Where to place the photo zone
A place for photographing is placed at home, in the office, garden, park, in the courtyard, on the banks of the river, the sea, etc. In nature, among the trees and bushes, tall grasses and picturesque flower beds, tables, chairs, a swing are hung, narrow bridges are thrown over streams, ponds.
If photographing takes place indoors, place the zone in the brightest place, although the lighting will suit both natural and artificial. The most popular option is a photo wall, photographing here takes place in the immediate vicinity of a wall decorated with something. For very young boys and girls, for example, for one year old, this area, decorated with the number "1", is equipped on the couch. In this way, it is permissible to arrange a space for people who, due to illness, cannot walk, but wish to be photographed too.
Photo window is also an interesting option. It is a beautiful picture frame suspended from the ceiling, mounted on supports, or a stand with slots. At least three people should also fit here freely. A photo corner is arranged anywhere in the interior, sometimes combining both a zone for a photo and for relaxation. The decorations are furniture, floor vases, statues, indoor plants, paintings, etc. A press wall with the names and initials of the participants is a great idea, just like at an elite party, where the wall is decorated with logos of various firms and companies.
Using a variety of details, such as hats, fans, plates, dishes, draperies, volumetric numbers and letters, will make it possible to make more than a hundred different photos on the same background.
Materials used
Materials for decor are used very different:
fabric, fur;
double-sided colored paper;
corrugated cardboard, tissue paper;
Isolon
foil;
Natural flowers;
different paints;
wire;
polystyrene, plastic;
multi-colored wire;
wood cuts, snags;
autumn "gifts of nature";
Photowall-paper, color self-adhesive films.
Photo zone design ideas for the holidays
The photo zone is made out to everyone that "comes to mind", fit:
fresh and artificial flowers;
tantamareski, banner inscriptions-extensions;
ribbons, bows, lace;
garlands of paper, fabric, bells;
slate boards;
collages of napkins, forest gifts;
air balloons;
picture frames of various shapes and sizes;
textile draperies;
huge letters and numbers;
photo collages;
models of famous buildings;
artificially aged furniture;
wooden "village" attributes;
foam columns, screens, stucco molding.
As a place to create a photo, a “hut” created from twisted branches next to growing trees, carved or made from vines arch, decorated with dandelion wreaths, a fragment of photo wallpaper with the image of the sea and palm trees from plastic bottles in the foreground is suitable. If there are tall or ampelous flowers in flowerpots, trees in tubs, they are also used.
The design of the photo zone with candles looks interesting - one large with many small ones for one year, a hundred candles of different or equal sizes - for the celebration of the centenary.
Banners, tantamares on construction
Tantamaresca is a special stand with a plot pattern and slots for the face, and sometimes for arms and legs. Often the design is a figure of a person, an animal, a typewriter having corresponding openings. This item has been used for photographing since ancient times. Usually humorous, just interesting photos are created this way. The product is made of plywood, painted by hand and becomes one of the main "highlights" of the event. Also, the building can be ordered at the nearest "copy center", according to your own picture, a picture from the Internet.
Banner - a structure fixed to the frame, representing a canvas. Most often, a photo on the background of such a product resembles a postcard. The dimensions of the subject are from 150 by 150 cm to 300 by 600 cm. Photo banners are decorated with pictures, ornaments, inscriptions, the plot is made as completely childish, as well as more “business”, stylized “antique”, or with a hint of near-erotic content, if adult holiday.
Stand of flowers
Flowers for decor are used both freshly cut and artificial. In order for living plants to stay fresh all day, their stems are inserted into the base, impregnated with special compounds. In this way, arches, panels, and plasterboard structures resembling a swing are usually decorated.
Artificial flowers look like huge buds, often exceeding human growth or smaller, but in significant quantities. The background will be a simple white (yellow, red, violet, etc.) wall, while the flowers should contrast sharply with it, or be at least three or four tones darker (for dark walls - lighter). Growing articles made of isolon (polyethylene foam) - a smooth, light, durable rolled material, look good.They are fixed on thick legs made of plastic tubes, special wire frames. No less often used foamiran. Paper flowers are usually small in size, and their service life is short, as is the cost of the materials spent.
Small single flowers are strung on a string, placing vertically or horizontally on the walls.
Ribbons
On the street, trees, parts of buildings, a car, wooden or cardboard decorations decorate with ribbons. Of the satin colored ribbons, a panel is completely filled with bows, tassels, and pigtails. From pieces of colored ribbon tied on a lace, an excellent garland will come out. The simplest option is a ribbon trimmed with a "harmonica" strung on a thread.
In the presence of the usual steel, wooden frame, many colored ribbons are tied to its upper crossbar. It looks especially beautiful outdoors, as the ribbons flutter beautifully in the wind. It also uses graceful pickups, paper roses, sunflowers, cornflowers, and other suitable flowers.
Various garlands
A garland of any material placed in the right place is generally a win-win option. Usually they are made of flowers (living, purchased, homemade), strung on a thread of multi-colored flags, thread pompons, pieces of fabric, colored scarves, balls of corrugated paper or polystyrene foam, inscriptions and letters, photographs, drawings. Volumetric paper butterflies, hearts, stars, made up of two or three intersecting fragments, look very good. LED garlands, decorated with decorative home-made shades, will allow you to originally illuminate the photo corner in the dark. For a retro holiday, a light garland with vintage lights is purchased.
Chalk / Slate
Photos on the background of a slate or chalk board also come out very original. Drawings are made with special crayons, including colored ones.The main plus is that the design is easy to completely change many times in the evening, just wiping off the image with a damp cloth and applying a new one. Here, each guest can leave a congratulation on their own, which will later be immortalized in the photo.
Options for "chalk plots":
trees, flowers;
landscapes, still lifes;
inscriptions, congratulations;
arches, hearts;
multicolor abstractions.
Boards are often made of two or three, multi-winged - with their help they organize a complete photo corner. An additional decor of this place is growth flowers, vintage lanterns, garlands, stickers, soft toys.
Panel of napkins
A panel of colored napkins is one of the cheapest decor options. It is easy to make flowers, bows, various corrugated shapes from such material. Most often, the decoration is made from folded several times and glued to the middle of napkins-flowers, which completely fills the photo stand. At the same time, such decorations as the “throne of the birthday man”, growth figures and letters made of polystyrene are used.
To make a rose out of napkins, you will have to take at least four folded parts, cut circles out of them. The element is attached with a stapler to the base of plywood. Plastic, foam, upper petals rise, the structure is fluffy. When performing another flower, the core is placed in the center in the form of a button or bead. To bridge the whole background, you need more than a hundred of these flowers. Sometimes flowers, numbers, inscriptions, plot paintings are made from crumpled pieces of colored napkins glued to the base along the contour.
Balloons
Balloons are made large and small, almost round, elongated, curly, because of them it is easy to create any, most intricate composition from them. The same colored balls with helium fill the entire ceiling, they also form the entrance to the room. Voluminous inflatable flowers twisted from tube-shaped balls placed on a contrasting background will also create a beautiful background for photographs.An arch made of colored balls interspersed with flowers is one of the most popular photo corner decor options. Also, plot compositions with hares, caterpillars, and dinosaurs are created from different shapes of balls. Foil stars, hearts, letters of the Russian or English alphabet are also added here.
Such a zone is multi-colored or monochrome.
Themed fence
Commonly used is a wooden plank fence or high wattle fence. A fragment of the design is created both at home and in the open. She is painted in different colors, painted a rainbow, fairy-tale characters, decorated with suitable attributes for the occasion. For a pirate party, a flag with a skull and bones is hung out, decorations in the form of palm trees, a lifebuoy, a ship silhouette and sea cuttlefish. The "historical" event is made out by lace fans, a retro bike, a gramophone. A corner of the village is being created here - clay pots, pitchforks, a lively cockerel.
Garlands on threads
It’s easy to hang almost anything on filament garlands - flags, corrugated flashlights, asterisks, pompons, honeycomb balls, etc. Often, on strings that are attached horizontally or in the form of extensions stretching across the room, they attach numbers and words, the words “Happy Birthday” ! " and its full date. If the celebration takes place in the winter, it will be appropriate to decorate part of the room with snowflakes, “snowy” cones, paper brushes, hand-painted pasta-bows, etc.
Cardboard plates
From almost flat color cardboard plates an interesting decor will also come out. These are masks of animals and various characters with slots for eyes and mouth, glued hair from thread, paper, fabric. Such round objects will make excellent photo frames, hand-painted mini-panels, figures of fish, birds, butterflies. If desired, of them, adding cardboard cups, it’s easy to “build” a princess’s castle, a starship, a balloon silhouette,as well as many "emoticons" with different facial expressions.
Stick Photobuthoria
Textiles, plastic or paper mustaches, glasses, spouts, eyebrows are used here as fake decorations. Such elements relate more to accessories than to the direct design of the photo angle. Depending on the topic of the celebration, the organizers will have to find it on the Internet, print it on thick cardboard, attach antennae and lips, glasses and butterflies, wings and noses, wigs and beards, masks and Hawaiian beads, hare ears and crowns on a stick. For variety, sticks are glued all kinds of inscriptions with congratulations, birthdays, etc. Various attributes such as flowers, fruits, pistols, tubes, cigars, horses, suns fixed on sticks are also suitable for creating plot compositions.
Some online stores offer props based on famous cartoons - “Masha and the Bear”, “Fixies”, “Paw Patrol”, etc.
Stylistic design, required attributes for photo zones
Any theme of the holiday implies the appropriate scenery. First you need to come up with a plot (legend), in accordance with which the design is created. The whole decor of a festive room or outdoor venue is made conceptual. In a single style, everything is done - from dishes to garland-extensions, from graffiti to the color of chair covers and cocktail straws.
The most vivid, popular stories that are easy to bring to life, as part of a birthday celebration:
"Dudes";
Disco
"Oscar";
"Carnival";
"Back to USSR";
"Folk tales";
"Alice in the Wonderland";
"Twelve Chairs";
"Masquerade Ball";
"Moulin rouge";
"Military";
"1001 nights."
Disco style
Disco is a direction that flourished in 1970-1990. It is associated with fast rhythms, multifaceted mirror balls under the ceilings of clubs, light music, bright curly wigs. Guitars and vinyl records are a great backdrop for photos.Guests here put on sunglasses, stars, acid color sweaters and leggings, apply glitter makeup. The interior will be complemented by the inscription “DISCO” made of foil balloons. “Mirror ball” is easy to make from CDs, cut into pieces - they are glued to a foam ball, which is later suspended in the center of the room. If there is a table, chairs in the photozone, they are decorated with tinsel-rain. Metallic confetti sprinkles both floors and any decorative objects, immediately before photographing.
In the style of dudes
The “dudes” photo corner includes bright colors and phonograph records, prints with “peas” and colorful umbrellas, large beads and feminine silhouettes. The movement was very popular in the 60s of the 20th century, when imported clothes, bright accessories, and near-formal “parties” only came into fashion. The venue will be a good cafe, a spacious apartment, a half-abandoned house.
Suitable interior - bright curtains, chair covers and sofas decorated with bows, an abundance of LED garlands, vintage floor lamps. Saxophones, gramophones, covers of records of those years, huge bows are suitable as requisites for a photo. An excellent background will be posters, printouts of frames from the movie "Hipsters", an image of a car, such as ZIL, Volga, Seagull, etc.
Oscar style
Hollywood-style birthday parties will need special decorations. This is one or several Oscar figurines of various sizes, a red carpet, gold stars made of foil on the wall of the photo zone, a garland of paper pompons, a golden “rain” as a glance at tables, chairs, sofas. In the presence of an arch, it is completely wrapped with foil, decorated with star-hearts on a thread.
A suitable props is a tape with the inscription "HOLLYWOOD", striped "movie clapper", shiny helium balloons, photographs of famous actors.If the stylization is “like old Hollywood”, then black-and-white color scheme is ideal, for more modern - golden, silver, red tones.
Tip: the carpet with arch located on the steps looks good. The Oscar figurine is located to the left or right of the structure.
In the style of the USSR
The holiday with decorations in the style of the Country of Soviets is an abundance of red flags, pioneer horns and ties, fake sickle and hammer. The idea is suitable for the anniversary of an adult “born in the USSR”, as well as for a very young birthday boy who is fond of history. The “theme” here will be any Soviet retro motorcycle or car, Lenin’s bust, streamers with red pentagonal flags, Soviet propaganda posters, and coins and notes of the end of the last century are glued to the wall.
If there is a table in the photo corner, attributes such as faceted glasses, Belomor cigarettes or a bundle of them, milk bottles with foil caps, red caps, ties are placed on it that are common for a Soviet citizen. At the top of the photo zone there is an inscription in red letters "Back to USSR", and the newly-arrived pioneers and Oktorata dress in skirts, shorts, golfs, ties, and cling to the chest badges with "grandfather Lenin." For a more festive look, all the props are decorated with sparkles, tinsel, red shiny stars.
A similar option is the “yellow-blue party” in the Ukrainian style. All items here are blue and yellow, stylized national costumes are acceptable, yellow-blue ribbons in the design of arches and hair of girls, wreaths of textile flowers, small bouquets of daisies and cornflowers.
In the style of masquerade
For a masquerade ball, masks are made with almond-shaped slits for the eyes on the upper part of the face or on the whole. Theme - Brazilian carnival, Hawaiian, Mexican party. Here “in the subject” are hats, masks with feathers, the same skirts, large beads, bright colors in everything. Attributes are decorated with beads, sparkles, colored tinsel.Colorful feathers are made out and the entire photo zone in full.
Modern industrial-urban themes are also in fashion. Attributes such as gas masks, respirators, glasses with a radiation badge, platform shoes will be suitable suits. The interior of the photo corner itself is glued with murals imitating a brick wall or the entrance to a nuclear bunker. LED lighting is a must.
Masquerade in the style of “Master and Margarita” is an interesting idea, especially for those who read this work. The background will be printed close-up shots from the film, especially the scenes of the Satanic ball itself. You should prepare in advance the costumes of a Hippo cat, Margarita’s iron outfit, fake palms and a yellowish color of the column, a realistic cardboard fireplace, mini fountains, a carpet on the steps, wine glasses a la blood, a pillow with a golden poodle. Guest outfits - tailcoats, tuxedos, flesh-colored dresses. Hats with feathers. The interior of the photo zone will be organically supplemented by coffins, skeletons, fake heads in full size, the inscription "apartment No. 50", etc.
As a plot, sometimes they choose an interesting story from life, a fantastic story, the motives of one of the popular computer games.
In the style of fairy tales
The decor depends on the chosen fairy tale. Usually this area is done for the child’s birthday. Mom and baby are dressed up in costumes of fairies and infanta, gnome and Snow White. The fairy-tale animated scenes include the “screen versions” of “Chippolino”, “Kolobok” and “Chicken of the Ryaba” (for the smallest), “Masha and the Bear”, “Bremen Town Musicians”, “The Snow Queen”, “Puppy Patrol”, “Toddler and Carlson. " To design the hall, you can attract older children who are already able to cut garlands, figures of animals, and other fairy tale characters from paper and cardboard.
Children's holiday on the plot "Alice in Wonderland", is framed by a background with a picture of a wonderful forest, a cat with a smile, a caterpillar with a hookah sitting on a huge mushroom.From the LED strip, the birthday number is laid out.
Conclusion
Making a photo zone with your own hands in an apartment or on the street is not difficult. It is only important to determine the style of the festive decor, the available materials, and show a little imagination. A beautifully designed corner will allow you to persuade even those guests who did not initially plan to frame the picture. The decoration is made with one's own hand or with the participation of invited decorators from the local company organizing the holidays.
Designing a place for photos and videos during the holidays is of great importance, because the photos are stored for a long time, sent to different people. The more original and varied the decor, the more memorable will be the pictures remaining after the event. Birthday photo zone is decorated in accordance with the interests of the birthday, his age, gender, occupation. To do this, use materials at hand, carnival costumes and your own imagination.
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Features and rules for the design of photo zones
The photo zone can be open or closed (“photo booth”). The latter option is suitable for a particularly shy birthday man, his guests, while an open space is for everyone. The photo booth is often equipped with appropriate equipment, an outdoor professional photographer takes pictures of the open area.
Photo zone decoration has some features:
Where to place the photo zone
A place for photographing is placed at home, in the office, garden, park, in the courtyard, on the banks of the river, the sea, etc. In nature, among the trees and bushes, tall grasses and picturesque flower beds, tables, chairs, a swing are hung, narrow bridges are thrown over streams, ponds.
If photographing takes place indoors, place the zone in the brightest place, although the lighting will suit both natural and artificial. The most popular option is a photo wall, photographing here takes place in the immediate vicinity of a wall decorated with something. For very young boys and girls, for example, for one year old, this area, decorated with the number "1", is equipped on the couch. In this way, it is permissible to arrange a space for people who, due to illness, cannot walk, but wish to be photographed too.
Photo window is also an interesting option. It is a beautiful picture frame suspended from the ceiling, mounted on supports, or a stand with slots. At least three people should also fit here freely. A photo corner is arranged anywhere in the interior, sometimes combining both a zone for a photo and for relaxation. The decorations are furniture, floor vases, statues, indoor plants, paintings, etc. A press wall with the names and initials of the participants is a great idea, just like at an elite party, where the wall is decorated with logos of various firms and companies.
Materials used
Materials for decor are used very different:
Photo zone design ideas for the holidays
The photo zone is made out to everyone that "comes to mind", fit:
As a place to create a photo, a “hut” created from twisted branches next to growing trees, carved or made from vines arch, decorated with dandelion wreaths, a fragment of photo wallpaper with the image of the sea and palm trees from plastic bottles in the foreground is suitable. If there are tall or ampelous flowers in flowerpots, trees in tubs, they are also used.
Banners, tantamares on construction
Tantamaresca is a special stand with a plot pattern and slots for the face, and sometimes for arms and legs. Often the design is a figure of a person, an animal, a typewriter having corresponding openings. This item has been used for photographing since ancient times. Usually humorous, just interesting photos are created this way. The product is made of plywood, painted by hand and becomes one of the main "highlights" of the event. Also, the building can be ordered at the nearest "copy center", according to your own picture, a picture from the Internet.
Banner - a structure fixed to the frame, representing a canvas. Most often, a photo on the background of such a product resembles a postcard. The dimensions of the subject are from 150 by 150 cm to 300 by 600 cm. Photo banners are decorated with pictures, ornaments, inscriptions, the plot is made as completely childish, as well as more “business”, stylized “antique”, or with a hint of near-erotic content, if adult holiday.
Stand of flowers
Flowers for decor are used both freshly cut and artificial. In order for living plants to stay fresh all day, their stems are inserted into the base, impregnated with special compounds. In this way, arches, panels, and plasterboard structures resembling a swing are usually decorated.
Artificial flowers look like huge buds, often exceeding human growth or smaller, but in significant quantities. The background will be a simple white (yellow, red, violet, etc.) wall, while the flowers should contrast sharply with it, or be at least three or four tones darker (for dark walls - lighter). Growing articles made of isolon (polyethylene foam) - a smooth, light, durable rolled material, look good.They are fixed on thick legs made of plastic tubes, special wire frames. No less often used foamiran. Paper flowers are usually small in size, and their service life is short, as is the cost of the materials spent.
Ribbons
On the street, trees, parts of buildings, a car, wooden or cardboard decorations decorate with ribbons. Of the satin colored ribbons, a panel is completely filled with bows, tassels, and pigtails. From pieces of colored ribbon tied on a lace, an excellent garland will come out. The simplest option is a ribbon trimmed with a "harmonica" strung on a thread.
In the presence of the usual steel, wooden frame, many colored ribbons are tied to its upper crossbar. It looks especially beautiful outdoors, as the ribbons flutter beautifully in the wind. It also uses graceful pickups, paper roses, sunflowers, cornflowers, and other suitable flowers.
Various garlands
A garland of any material placed in the right place is generally a win-win option. Usually they are made of flowers (living, purchased, homemade), strung on a thread of multi-colored flags, thread pompons, pieces of fabric, colored scarves, balls of corrugated paper or polystyrene foam, inscriptions and letters, photographs, drawings. Volumetric paper butterflies, hearts, stars, made up of two or three intersecting fragments, look very good. LED garlands, decorated with decorative home-made shades, will allow you to originally illuminate the photo corner in the dark. For a retro holiday, a light garland with vintage lights is purchased.
Chalk / Slate
Photos on the background of a slate or chalk board also come out very original. Drawings are made with special crayons, including colored ones.The main plus is that the design is easy to completely change many times in the evening, just wiping off the image with a damp cloth and applying a new one. Here, each guest can leave a congratulation on their own, which will later be immortalized in the photo.
Options for "chalk plots":
Boards are often made of two or three, multi-winged - with their help they organize a complete photo corner. An additional decor of this place is growth flowers, vintage lanterns, garlands, stickers, soft toys.
Panel of napkins
A panel of colored napkins is one of the cheapest decor options. It is easy to make flowers, bows, various corrugated shapes from such material. Most often, the decoration is made from folded several times and glued to the middle of napkins-flowers, which completely fills the photo stand. At the same time, such decorations as the “throne of the birthday man”, growth figures and letters made of polystyrene are used.
To make a rose out of napkins, you will have to take at least four folded parts, cut circles out of them. The element is attached with a stapler to the base of plywood. Plastic, foam, upper petals rise, the structure is fluffy. When performing another flower, the core is placed in the center in the form of a button or bead. To bridge the whole background, you need more than a hundred of these flowers. Sometimes flowers, numbers, inscriptions, plot paintings are made from crumpled pieces of colored napkins glued to the base along the contour.
Balloons
Balloons are made large and small, almost round, elongated, curly, because of them it is easy to create any, most intricate composition from them. The same colored balls with helium fill the entire ceiling, they also form the entrance to the room. Voluminous inflatable flowers twisted from tube-shaped balls placed on a contrasting background will also create a beautiful background for photographs.An arch made of colored balls interspersed with flowers is one of the most popular photo corner decor options. Also, plot compositions with hares, caterpillars, and dinosaurs are created from different shapes of balls. Foil stars, hearts, letters of the Russian or English alphabet are also added here.
Themed fence
Commonly used is a wooden plank fence or high wattle fence. A fragment of the design is created both at home and in the open. She is painted in different colors, painted a rainbow, fairy-tale characters, decorated with suitable attributes for the occasion. For a pirate party, a flag with a skull and bones is hung out, decorations in the form of palm trees, a lifebuoy, a ship silhouette and sea cuttlefish. The "historical" event is made out by lace fans, a retro bike, a gramophone. A corner of the village is being created here - clay pots, pitchforks, a lively cockerel.
Garlands on threads
It’s easy to hang almost anything on filament garlands - flags, corrugated flashlights, asterisks, pompons, honeycomb balls, etc. Often, on strings that are attached horizontally or in the form of extensions stretching across the room, they attach numbers and words, the words “Happy Birthday” ! " and its full date. If the celebration takes place in the winter, it will be appropriate to decorate part of the room with snowflakes, “snowy” cones, paper brushes, hand-painted pasta-bows, etc.
Cardboard plates
From almost flat color cardboard plates an interesting decor will also come out. These are masks of animals and various characters with slots for eyes and mouth, glued hair from thread, paper, fabric. Such round objects will make excellent photo frames, hand-painted mini-panels, figures of fish, birds, butterflies. If desired, of them, adding cardboard cups, it’s easy to “build” a princess’s castle, a starship, a balloon silhouette,as well as many "emoticons" with different facial expressions.
Stick Photobuthoria
Textiles, plastic or paper mustaches, glasses, spouts, eyebrows are used here as fake decorations. Such elements relate more to accessories than to the direct design of the photo angle. Depending on the topic of the celebration, the organizers will have to find it on the Internet, print it on thick cardboard, attach antennae and lips, glasses and butterflies, wings and noses, wigs and beards, masks and Hawaiian beads, hare ears and crowns on a stick. For variety, sticks are glued all kinds of inscriptions with congratulations, birthdays, etc. Various attributes such as flowers, fruits, pistols, tubes, cigars, horses, suns fixed on sticks are also suitable for creating plot compositions.
Stylistic design, required attributes for photo zones
Any theme of the holiday implies the appropriate scenery. First you need to come up with a plot (legend), in accordance with which the design is created. The whole decor of a festive room or outdoor venue is made conceptual. In a single style, everything is done - from dishes to garland-extensions, from graffiti to the color of chair covers and cocktail straws.
The most vivid, popular stories that are easy to bring to life, as part of a birthday celebration:
Disco style
Disco is a direction that flourished in 1970-1990. It is associated with fast rhythms, multifaceted mirror balls under the ceilings of clubs, light music, bright curly wigs. Guitars and vinyl records are a great backdrop for photos.Guests here put on sunglasses, stars, acid color sweaters and leggings, apply glitter makeup. The interior will be complemented by the inscription “DISCO” made of foil balloons. “Mirror ball” is easy to make from CDs, cut into pieces - they are glued to a foam ball, which is later suspended in the center of the room. If there is a table, chairs in the photozone, they are decorated with tinsel-rain. Metallic confetti sprinkles both floors and any decorative objects, immediately before photographing.
In the style of dudes
The “dudes” photo corner includes bright colors and phonograph records, prints with “peas” and colorful umbrellas, large beads and feminine silhouettes. The movement was very popular in the 60s of the 20th century, when imported clothes, bright accessories, and near-formal “parties” only came into fashion. The venue will be a good cafe, a spacious apartment, a half-abandoned house.
Suitable interior - bright curtains, chair covers and sofas decorated with bows, an abundance of LED garlands, vintage floor lamps. Saxophones, gramophones, covers of records of those years, huge bows are suitable as requisites for a photo. An excellent background will be posters, printouts of frames from the movie "Hipsters", an image of a car, such as ZIL, Volga, Seagull, etc.
Oscar style
Hollywood-style birthday parties will need special decorations. This is one or several Oscar figurines of various sizes, a red carpet, gold stars made of foil on the wall of the photo zone, a garland of paper pompons, a golden “rain” as a glance at tables, chairs, sofas. In the presence of an arch, it is completely wrapped with foil, decorated with star-hearts on a thread.
A suitable props is a tape with the inscription "HOLLYWOOD", striped "movie clapper", shiny helium balloons, photographs of famous actors.If the stylization is “like old Hollywood”, then black-and-white color scheme is ideal, for more modern - golden, silver, red tones.
Tip: the carpet with arch located on the steps looks good. The Oscar figurine is located to the left or right of the structure.
In the style of the USSR
The holiday with decorations in the style of the Country of Soviets is an abundance of red flags, pioneer horns and ties, fake sickle and hammer. The idea is suitable for the anniversary of an adult “born in the USSR”, as well as for a very young birthday boy who is fond of history. The “theme” here will be any Soviet retro motorcycle or car, Lenin’s bust, streamers with red pentagonal flags, Soviet propaganda posters, and coins and notes of the end of the last century are glued to the wall.
If there is a table in the photo corner, attributes such as faceted glasses, Belomor cigarettes or a bundle of them, milk bottles with foil caps, red caps, ties are placed on it that are common for a Soviet citizen. At the top of the photo zone there is an inscription in red letters "Back to USSR", and the newly-arrived pioneers and Oktorata dress in skirts, shorts, golfs, ties, and cling to the chest badges with "grandfather Lenin." For a more festive look, all the props are decorated with sparkles, tinsel, red shiny stars.
A similar option is the “yellow-blue party” in the Ukrainian style. All items here are blue and yellow, stylized national costumes are acceptable, yellow-blue ribbons in the design of arches and hair of girls, wreaths of textile flowers, small bouquets of daisies and cornflowers.
In the style of masquerade
For a masquerade ball, masks are made with almond-shaped slits for the eyes on the upper part of the face or on the whole. Theme - Brazilian carnival, Hawaiian, Mexican party. Here “in the subject” are hats, masks with feathers, the same skirts, large beads, bright colors in everything. Attributes are decorated with beads, sparkles, colored tinsel.Colorful feathers are made out and the entire photo zone in full.
Modern industrial-urban themes are also in fashion. Attributes such as gas masks, respirators, glasses with a radiation badge, platform shoes will be suitable suits. The interior of the photo corner itself is glued with murals imitating a brick wall or the entrance to a nuclear bunker. LED lighting is a must.
Masquerade in the style of “Master and Margarita” is an interesting idea, especially for those who read this work. The background will be printed close-up shots from the film, especially the scenes of the Satanic ball itself. You should prepare in advance the costumes of a Hippo cat, Margarita’s iron outfit, fake palms and a yellowish color of the column, a realistic cardboard fireplace, mini fountains, a carpet on the steps, wine glasses a la blood, a pillow with a golden poodle. Guest outfits - tailcoats, tuxedos, flesh-colored dresses. Hats with feathers. The interior of the photo zone will be organically supplemented by coffins, skeletons, fake heads in full size, the inscription "apartment No. 50", etc.
In the style of fairy tales
The decor depends on the chosen fairy tale. Usually this area is done for the child’s birthday. Mom and baby are dressed up in costumes of fairies and infanta, gnome and Snow White. The fairy-tale animated scenes include the “screen versions” of “Chippolino”, “Kolobok” and “Chicken of the Ryaba” (for the smallest), “Masha and the Bear”, “Bremen Town Musicians”, “The Snow Queen”, “Puppy Patrol”, “Toddler and Carlson. " To design the hall, you can attract older children who are already able to cut garlands, figures of animals, and other fairy tale characters from paper and cardboard.
Children's holiday on the plot "Alice in Wonderland", is framed by a background with a picture of a wonderful forest, a cat with a smile, a caterpillar with a hookah sitting on a huge mushroom.From the LED strip, the birthday number is laid out.
Conclusion
Making a photo zone with your own hands in an apartment or on the street is not difficult. It is only important to determine the style of the festive decor, the available materials, and show a little imagination. A beautifully designed corner will allow you to persuade even those guests who did not initially plan to frame the picture. The decoration is made with one's own hand or with the participation of invited decorators from the local company organizing the holidays.