7.28.2012

Stage design: projection panels


New Life purchased 3 ultra short throw projectors for some classrooms. The rooms weren't going to be ready till the summer.leaving the projectors "available" for Easter.

Before we could dream up any freaky projection surfaces, we had to see what the projectiors were capable of. Through the process of trial and error, we determined that the happiest size of surface would be 7.'5 by 10'. We could make a bigger screen, then we would lose too much punch.

We went to our local coroplast supplier and had them cut us 2' and 1' wide strips that were 7.5' long.

We then took the strips and zip tied them to 10' sections of conduit with 6" spacings.

Once the scenery was hung and projectors turned on, we connected them to a Matrox Triple head. My graphics/computer genius opened up Photoshop with a white background and drew a "black" mask between the coroplast. Once completed we saved the mask as a PNG and imported it into Song Show Plus, our projection software.

Song Show Plus has a secondary output with it's own independent cue list. From there we programmed our service, twice - one for the primary output (3 10k projectors off a triple head for lyrics and playback) and a second for the new scenic screens.

We would mix and match backgrounds from the same family/theme/color scheme

Other times we would mirror the top projection with the bottom

Using Song Show Plus remote and improv features, we were able to control all the projection from a computer near the lighting console.

We were able to create some custom graphics to match our sermon series.



Using the "flip" effect in Song Show, we were able to create fake seamless looks using the same background.

1 comment:

stevenhallav said...

This looks great James!!!! Keep the astounding work for God.