Gabe Loera from Life Challenge in Odessa, TX brings us this stage design with so much appearance of motion.
From Gabe:
This stage design was used for our annual Senior Texico Youth Camp. The theme for the camp was “I Believe”. The stage measures 75′ long and 12′ tall.
Materials Used
Boxes: We ordered 500 (12″ x 12″) boxes, 25 (6″ x 6″) boxes, and 25 (16″ x 16″) boxes from U-Line and used tape guns to assemble them. The wall ended up being about 60′ long and 9′ tall.
Stabilization: The boxes were stacked free-standing, using bricks in some rows to stabilize and prevent the wall from leaning. We also used 2″ x 4″ frame guides behind to keep the wall straight.
Gap Creation: To create the gap in the middle of the wall, we placed boxes on a painted 1″ x 4″ board and suspended them from the bottom using painted tie-wire.
Broken Out Look: We utilized clear fishing line and washers to suspend multiple boxes in different places and orientations, while cutting the edges of some boxes and taping them to the wall.
Letters
Materials: We used 2″ insulation foam board from Lowe’s because the letters needed to be lightweight.
Construction: We glued two pieces together, traced the letters using a projector, then cut them out using a hot-knife. After the letters were cut out, we painted the sides black and attached them to a 1″ x 4″ board to ensure proper spacing and to allow us to hang the letters all together instead of individually. The letters were hung using fishing line.
Selfie-Wall: With the extra boxes left over, we created a “selfie-wall” that looked similar to the main stage for youth to take individual and group pictures.
Lighting
We utilized our travel lighting setup which consisted of:
(10) LED Chauvet WashFX to create multiple color variants and shadows.
(16) Chauvet LED Pars for accent lighting.
(2) Chauvet Colorstrips and (2) Chauvet ColorRails to light the letters.
Budget and Costs
The materials were simple, but the process took several days and weeks of planning and measuring to get it right. The overall budget for the stage setup was about $850:
Boxes: $700
Foam boards: $40
Wood/framing: $50
Miscellaneous items: The rest was spent on tape/tape-guns, fishing line, touch-up paint, screws, and other miscellaneous items.
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Nice!
Love this!
Amazing… ugh.. I wanna do this look in our new youth space we’re putting together.. wow
Where did you order the boxes from?
This is ridiculously awsome!
W here did you order the boxes from?