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Adam Neal from Journey Church in Raleigh, NC brings us this very squarey design.
They designed this set for the grand opening of their expanded facilities, new worship album, and new service times.
They wanted full coverage and a wow factor without taking up any floor space. They got the white squares cut at Home Depot (cost around $350). Then they screwed 1x2s against the walls of the stage and used velcro to stick the squares to the wall. (A powered nail gun would be a more secure setup.)
They lit the squares with American DJ Micro washes and Elation DLED (RGBAW) Strip Lights.
They also framed their screen to reduce its size so they could fit in more squares.
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Wow, is is beautiful! What type of material are the white squares?
Thanks Ryan,
The squares are from Home Depot (or Lowes) and I’m not sure what it’s called. They come in 4 x 8 sheets white on one side and brown on the other. It’s basically the same as dry erase boards.
Are they just shinning diff colored lights on them to make them diff colors or do the have lights behind them??
Hey Todd,
We lit all the squares from the front using LED lights… every song had a different light scene, which would change the color of the squares.
Hi, What were the sizes of the squares? It looks like you had an uplight for each stack. Thanks.
Hey Brad,
The squares were each 2′ x 2′ (give or take). And yes we did uplight each column on the sides. For the back/center we used the large DLED light strips.
Hope this helps.
Hey Adam what is the best way to attach these squares???
Hey Chris,
Initially, used velcro (as seen in the pictures). It really depends on how strong your wall support is. We used velcro on the side walls and zero squares fell for 5 weeks. However, the back wall wasn’t as strong, so we ended up using small finish nails to hold the squares.
If you’re planning on leaving this design up for a long time (more than a month) then I would use finish nails.
Hope this helps!
Thanks!
This was stunning to see live. It looked like a million dollar light wall. Great job Adam.
Our plan is to squares design 3 small sections as our background for our church stage using the blue lighting.
Would like a picture of the lights you all used and how the lights were installed.
Thank you for your all you do to help!
Your church stage setting is awesome!
I would like information on what kind of blue lighting you used to light the front and back of the entire squares. What did you had to do to installed the lighting front and back to light up the entire squares setting in blue. Hope to hear from you soon!
would like some specifics on the lighting
Hey Juan and Bill,
The lighting for the side walls was the American DJ Micro washes. Here’s a link for the exact ones – http://bit.ly/U6UDbS
We simply screwed these lights to our floor in front of each column of squares.
And the back wall is lit with the Elation DLED (RGBAW) Strip Lights. Here’s a link for that – http://bit.ly/VyXQqJ
The strips can be mounted to the wall, which is what we did.
Hope this helps.
How many Elation DLED (RGBAW) Strip Lights did you use behind each wall?
Thank you again for you help.
Juan Flores
I’m curious to know a little more about light control. I don’t see any wash onto the screen and was wondering how that was achieved. As far as I can tell, there is no light control implemented?? This was all front lit so everything was lit from below correct?
Hey, was wondering what type of software your church runs to project onto the three screens? Right now we are running 3 fullscreens with pro presenter, but want to make our center screen a widescreen like yours, so any help would be appreciated!
I think the only thing I have a problem with is the pictures are a bit deceiving. The final photo (main photo) shows the light illuminating the squares perfectly while other candid shots show considerable hot spots from the wash lights. Obviously, the final photo has been Photoshopped to get the consistent light that’s shown as well as the drum set, keyboard, and trussing. Be careful with misrepresentation.
Jack, you are tard.