Chad Ellenburg at Pleasant Valley Church in Winona, MN brings us this cool Christmas design from 2011.
The red fabric represents the Gospel, the Scarlet cord stretched through eternity to save us in the winter of our our own souls – one 10 yard piece of crushed red silk.
The back wall is one piece of bleached muslin. They projected onto it from the front about 40 ft. away (just above the heads of the musicians).
The trees were made of rabbit-proof fence wiring from their local Menards (Home Depot or Lowes). They covered them with white sheets and painted the details. They used rebar tie-wire to suspend the trees and branches from their grid. Then they added in some real branches to sell it.
The painted the stage walls and roof black to make all the elements pop out.
Promo Video:
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Wow, that is completely fantastic!!! I love your method for creating the trees. How did you anchor the real branches to the wire tree trunks?
This is just stunning.
Thanks! We used the rebar tie wire to hang the branches from the grid. Once they were in the right position, we just cut holes into the trunks for them to barely slide into. So, the real weight is held from the grid and not the trunks.
how much was this whole set design??
Where did you purchase the large sheet of bleached muslin, or is it many stips sewn together?
where did you get the background video loop with the woods and walkway …
Scott, see my post below for links.
Sorry… Haven’t been here in a while. Total cost was approx. $400. The red fabric and the muslin Accounted for half of that. We bought both from Rosebrand.com. Yes,, it was one large piece. The background video started with a photo from Flickr. After a lot of photoshop work, I put it into After Effects and added the snow.
I absolutely love the trees in this set. Can you share your grid design?
Can we use this video?
My question also– is the video available for use? It would be a great resource.
This is the background loop.
This is the series video.
Feel free to download.
Thanks! All Glory to God!
oops Chad, you linked the loop video twice and not the series video? could you add that?
Thanks again!
See below.
GREAT! Thank you! We are so excited to take your vision and run with it!
Chad, thanks for the series link– we’re able to download. The snow loop video still needs the download enabled on Vimeo. Hate to be a pest, but after that we should be good :)
Ok… they all should be working now.
Is there any chance you have the video available without the text?
Love this staging theme! We are doing that for Christmas this year. I wanted to know how I could get ahold of the original promo video that you have on this page. Didn’t know if there was a way I could purchase it or what I might need to do to get that.
Thanks.
Tom
nevermind…..I didn’t scroll up first. :)
Would like to get the promo video with no words if it is available. Please let me know ASAP.
thanks,
Rebekah Stupakewicz
New Life Church
Sorry. I don’t have it that way and I have my own new stuff I am trying to crank out at the moment.
This is amazing! Thank you for letting the Lord use you!
This is amazing! Thank you for letting the Lord use you in such a powerful way!
Thanks for sharing the promo video!
Stunning-elegant, really nice!