DIY Stage Design for Churches

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hey guys in this video i'm going to give

you a breakdown of our diy budget

friendly

video wall that we're using here at

south fellowship church

i've seen quite a few comments in some

of our videos asking about this video

wall

is that an led wall what kind of

projectors are you using lots of

questions i'll address all those

in this video i think many of you will

be impressed at how

inexpensive this type of solution can be

and i need to give

credit to eric he is a long time super

volunteer

tech team member here at south

fellowship church him and then

another church member jim who actually

designed and assembled

this video wall that we're using today

none of this was my idea this was just a

bunch of smart dudes who go to our

church

and they're able to come up with an

amazing solution here oh aaron as well

the worship pastor

so the the big picture goal that aaron

wanted as a worship pastor

is to be able to quickly switch between

you know the look that has like a screen

that we could project things on so we

could have some nice motion backgrounds

or any imagery or videos

playing sometimes just still images as

well behind the band and

i'm a big fan of that look i like being

able to use motion backgrounds from all

the great

motion background websites out there

whether it's cmg visual church media

throwing them on this back wall here and

it really just adds

great color and dynamics and energy to

the worship set

visually the other thing though aaron

wanted to be able to do is quickly

switch to

this more natural wood pallet look

so you know when you think about how you

can do stage designs

if you're trying to do both projection

or like a video wall as well as pallets

like it can quickly add up to a lot of

work to be able to switch quickly

between

those those different scenes and we

wanted a very convenient way to do that

aaron wanted a convenient way to do that

so

he talked to eric one of our super tech

team members

and then eric was kind of thinking

through what type of solution

we could come up with and then eric

talked to one of the carpenters here

that we have at the church

and this is what they came up with so

we've got

one two three four five six

seven freestanding structures here

that are kind of like cylinders in the

shape of a triangle so you can kind of

see what this one looks like here

on one side of the triangle we've got

the wood and then on the other side of

the triangle

we have this uh kind of white tile board

i'll give you the exact name here in a

moment

and i'll put links to all this down

below in the description so you can get

these materials

pretty much everything you can find at

home depot what's really genius about

this design is how quick it is to change

the look

so for sundays right now we've been

having the the white

projection wall but then a few weeks ago

actually a couple months ago now we did

our church front live event and

we weren't really going to use the

center screen so what i did is

spent about five minutes just spinning

these triangles around so that we have

the nice natural wood look right here

and it provides just a nice natural

darker background i think it looks great

on camera as well funny story about the

wood here

this is just a fencing material

that someone at the church had some

extra fence

material laying around they had enough

to to cover this whole wall

so every single one of these panels can

flip around and look like this

and now let's talk about this white

stuff right here it is called

yucatile so i'll link this down below

and

these panels here the the entire

structure

is 10 feet tall by four feet wide

so we've got again seven structures

uh so the width would be four times

seven about 28 feet

wide and we're not using the two side

structures

as projection walls we're actually just

we turn those around to be wood

and then we're just using the the center

one two three four five

panels to be projection walls so our

screen is

20 feet wide by 10 feet tall and this

this yucatan

this yucatan material i think you might

use this in your home or maybe

a bathroom or something like that it

kind of has a

more i think it's a bit more of a matte

finish to it a little

maybe semi-glossy finish and it's very

reflective

so it really reflects our projector well

and then we've just got these

small little screws in here that are

that are holding up

the um the material and because you can

only get the material in eight foot

lengths we had to

you know put eight footer on top here

and then we had to add another two foot

piece down here on the bottom

so inside the triangle here it's pretty

much completely

uh hollow so i can spin this around for

you

and right now we have one of the sides

of the the triangle structure here it's

just empty

so we could put you know another

material in here we could mount some

lights in here

i'm happy with the look we have right

now with some of the lighting fixtures

we've got above the screen

kind of provides some nice back downward

uh pointing lights to to give the the

bands a nice color wash

behind them but what i'll do is i'll

have chipper take some nice

still images of one of these structures

so you kind of get an idea

of how they built it if i can come

across the actual schematic drawings

that our congregation member

came up with to do this i'll go ahead

and put the link to those down below

but even if you can find someone handy

at your church they could probably just

look at

the what he built here i'm not a

carpenter at all they could probably

look at it and build it because it does

look fairly simple

so here's another cool idea of what they

did to make sure that we can actually

you know fairly quickly put these panels

in place so

here i have a little pull you could use

anything i don't even know i think this

is what they made it for

but i have little eye hooks down here at

the bottom of the screen and then i can

easily pull it up

to be positioned the right way

and then what they did is on the floor

there's l brackets

that kind of you know create the border

or the the perimeter of where the the

structure is going to be pushed up to so

we just know

as long as these panels are right up

next to these l brackets that i can just

pull them with this eye hook here

it's going to be in a straight line and

it's going to look square so right now

on these side ones i'm actually

pulling these angles out a little bit

because i like the look

of the light up there coming down behind

these

wood wood panels

and you can kind of see the color light

through the uh kind of the the creases

or the the cracks within

uh between the the cedar fencing

material here the projector we're using

in the setup is an

epson short throw projector i'm going to

link that down below so you know the

exact model that we're using

and again it's working great for our

situation

all church is going to be different so

you got to really look at the projector

specifications

measure out like how wide is the throw

going to be depending on how

far away it is from your screen but like

i said

we've got a 20 foot by 10 foot tall

screen

and then the projector i would say the

projector is probably

10 to 12 feet away from the screen and

it's probably another 11 feet

up in the ceiling right behind the

curtain so nobody can see it

and you'll be surprised like with a

short throw projector like that

i could be standing pretty far back here

as a band member and still not be in the

way of this projector because it's so

high and it just kind of shoots

right over me and behind me onto the

screen and i did want to mention

the way we're actually putting content

on this wall is we're running

another instance of propresenter back in

our tech booth

uh it's on the same computer as our

lighting computer and we are just

usually throwing up some different

motion backgrounds

still images and it's really simple

we're actually just sending some midi

cues from

the other instance of pro presenter on

our main presentation computer

and we're able to automatically cue up

these different backgrounds depending on

the song and the color scheme that we're

using so that's the setup

that's the simple structure we're using

here for our video wall that can easily

switch into

the nice natural wooden wall that's the

projector we're using

you'll see some b-roll in this video of

the results of what this all looks like

i hope this gives you guys some

inspiration

that you don't necessarily have to go

spend you know a hundred thousand

dollars on an led wall to have a nice

video background

um it's great if you have the budget for

it i could probably find some better

things to spend money on especially when

projectors are are that bright and look

that amazing these days

but i think this could actually be a

great solution for a lot of churches out

there so check out the links below for

more

details on the setup images of the

actual structure and links to all the

gear

that we're using and if you would like

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