Ryan from Celebrate Community Church in Sioux Falls, SD brings us this design that looks like circuitry.
They needed a stage solution that would launch a series (‘The Voice’, playing off the TV show), but would also be flexible enough to stand on it’s own for a few subsequent months/ Several concepts later, they landed on a hodge-podge of primarily lighting-based elements. Loosely modeled after components from the TV show, this allowed for a series changeout, only requiring color/lighting changes.
Mostly inspired by other CSDI designs, the element breakdown was:
• Center wall: 1″x12″ framed ‘box’, faced with clear Coroplast with an abstract/angular design printed on it. Lit from the inside with five HotStiks. Four LED TVs mounted on the face, fed from a Mac Mini through a Gefen video wall processor. The TV’s were mounted to custom backplates, which were U-clamped to 1″ steel tubes on the inside of the wall. Backplate sits on the inside of the Coroplast face, bolted to the TV on the outside to give them a ‘floating’ appearance, with no visible mounts.
• Ball Walls: 3″ styrofoam half-balls mounted on black plywood, downlit with HotStiks.
• Flash Towers: Seven 10″ work lamps, encased in a black plywood cabinet, fed through the lighting console, used primarily as crowd blinders.
• LED Strips: Hand-wired by a volunteer, LED tape, attached to 1″ aluminum strips, painted black. These were built in set lengths, so they can be reused in the future. Strips can be daisy-chained together in different configurations, and are DMX controlled through a custom built processor, thanks to the wizard volunteer.
This set mainly utilized components from past sets, so budget is tough to pinpoint.
Love it! Great job. Using the LED strips to “connect” all of the elements was a great idea.
A great look using different elements.
Radical!!! I especially like those LED strips. I want to see them made point by point. Is there a YouTube video? Radical!
what size TV’s are those? What did you use to run them? HDMI Matrix splitter?