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AJ Guptill from Crosspoint Church in Fredericton, NB, Canada brings us this great use of the shape of their room.
Their series was Shark Weak. And they realized their room looked a bit like a shark’s mouth. So they went with it.
They made the teeth out of styrofoam. They attached the teeth to the floor and ceiling using a lift.
They made their own triple wide screen from 2×6′s and a stretchy spandex material.
Finally they wrapped some aluminum screening material around the drum cage to make it look like foamy water.
They got all the materials for under $400. Cool!
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Awesome idea! Love the homemade tripe wide!
What are you guys using for a drum enclosure?
It’s just one that we made ourselves. It’s a metal frame with a piece of Lexan wrapped around the front to give it the round shape. It’s only 6 ft wide because the biggest piece of Lexan we could find was 8 ft so by the time we warped it it ended up being about 6 ft wide. It can be tight for a drummer with a big kit.
I love this, especially the projector screens. Question, what type of projectors are you using? My church is looking into purchasing a couple.
Hey Adam, sorry for the late response. We used three NEC np-2000 projectors. We already had one, I found one on eBay for about $500 and the other for like $230. If you wait around you can find some decent deals. I believe they are about 4000 lumens each, which is pretty decent when you have three of them going.
This is a KILLER setup! curious where you got the triplewide content?
Hey Luke, I got some of the content from a free trial from a website, I can’t even think of the name anymore, might have been videoblocks.com. But a lot of it is just regular 1080p HD backgrounds that we had before. We use Pro Presenter and there’s an option in the settings to import files as “stretch to fill” so when you import them there’s no weird distortion or anything. As far as resolution I haven’t noticed any difference between the 4K files and the 1080 files, Especially when your sitting in the chairs away from the screen.
A lot of our triplewide media that we use for our series I just design myself, either in After Effects for motion stuff or photoshop/Illustrator for regular graphics.
I think our final screen resolution ended up being 3840×1024, So for a 1920×1080 movie it ends up being 1920×512.
We do our announcements each week on video so I tape of my LCD screen so I know where to frame up the subjects.
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