In the pursuit of an extraordinary set design Ryan Garey from Kenmore Alliance Church Buffalo NY shares about their realm of ultra-wide displays. As he said:
For this set, we went ultra-wide. We built a 35′ x 8′ screen with fire-rated Celtic cloth in contrast grey that we got from the Rose brand. We have a lady in our church hem the edges and we hand-applied snaps every 6″ which was over 200 snaps. We bought snap pliers that look like vice grips off Amazon to make the process easier.
We stretched the cloth over an aluminum frame we built using 1″ square aluminum tubing we ordered from metal supermarkets. We used plastic corners and tees and had three vertical supports in the middle they are from a company called 80/20 inc on Amazon. We applied felt screen masking tape to the edges of the screen as well as the supports in the middle.
We flew the screen from our existing pipe grid with steel rope and Urban Trapeze Cable Stop, Adjuster, and Gripper. The cable grippers are way better than crimping the stops because you can level it and adjust it after it is up. The projectors we already had so I just had to relocate them to the right positions and re-hang them. They are Epson L615U laser projectors. Having the lens shift capability and corner pining made aligning them much easier. The source comes from Propresenter 7. We have a deck link card that is sending three SDI outputs to the screen and in Propresenter you blend them into one output.
The Led bars below we had from a previous set we just mounted them in a grid pattern for a cool look. Each line is individually controllable. The led strips are mounted in a PVC pipe that’s cut in half the long way and covered with diffusion paper. They are supported by a basic wood structure that looks like we were building a fence with no pickets. The frame is painted black so you don’t see it with the stage lights on.
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