Todd Bougher at The Rock Family Worship Center in Huntsville, Alabama, built this very inspiring stage design from 200 paint cans and light bulbs. The frames for the paint cans/light bulbs are built from 2x4s and masonite, with sheets of coroplast behind the arrow frames. The arrows…
Check out this cool idea from Travis Williams, the Technical Director at Crossroads Church in Douglasville, Georgia. Travis was able to simulate Versa Tubes using 2 extra projectors he had laying around combined with home-made screens made from PVC pipe. Check out the effect in this video:…
Another sweet set from Benjamin James Hunt, the Lighting and Scenic Director from Browns Bridge Community Church in Cumming, Georgia. Reminds me a bit of a stage I might have created with Legos…my favorite childhood toy. Using left over 2x4x6 foam blocks, they carved forms and layered the…
Check out the Christmas stage for City Life Church in Den Haag, Holland. A cute, quaint village on the stage with a huge wide screen above for all the lyrics and live visuals. As a bonus, check out their TV program at www.clcdenhaag.nl/tv. If you…
Check out this Youtube video from the Buckhead Church team showing the transition between two awesome stage designs. One using some cool light panels…the other using a really cool wave wall. Get some inspiration! Photo cred to Carlos Whittaker.
A sweet set from Benjamin James Hunt, the Lighting and Scenic Director from Browns Bridge Community Church in Cumming, Georgia. This set incorporates floating translucent fabric, foam brick walls lit from the ground, and some sweet patterned panels.
Have you checked out Buckhead Church‘s (in Atlanta, Georgia) stages yet? You really should. I’m working on getting in contact with the people who make these stage designs to see if they’re willing to share their techniques. Until then though I must admire their designs…
Todd Bougher at The Rock Family Worship Center in Huntsville, Alabama brings us these awesome stage structures. If you notice, they’re all the same pattern formed out of MDF (medium-density fiberboard). Pretty cool design for adding a bit of depth to a flat stage (great…
Open up your stage decoration by flying some fabric waterfalls behind the band and speaker. Duke Dejong hooked up this stage design using sections of Poly Sheen fabric flowing down the backdrop. 1′ box trussing was used to separate the waterfalls and provide structures from…
Camron Ware created this awesome stage design for the 2010 Planet Wisdom conferences. To create the long grunge columns, he found a very inexpensive solution using Weed Block and semi-gloss white paint from Home Depot. He used 7 rolls of Weed Block (3′x36′ each) for…
Another Duke Dejong stage treatment…this time…4th of July style. The stage centered around a 12′ by 8′ American flag with three pieces of fabric underneath that were lit with red, white and blue. The whole center column was supported by two 1′ box trussing. Another…
Steve Mullins from Barefoot Church in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina submitted this design using corrugated metal hung from the back and some sweet risers for the band to stand on. The risers are various heights (6’, 4’, and 2’) of basic 2×6 and plywood construction.…
Patrick Fore from Journey Church in Norman, Oklahoma combined his passion for Illustrator and Photoshop with some stage design savvy to create these cool panels. He used Epson Backlit Paper (3′x100′ roll) through his wide format printer to create the paper patterns, then attached them…
Is it just me, or does stretched spandex look somewhat like someone’s getting an atomic wedgie? No? Guess it’s just me. Regardless, check out this great use of stretched spandex from Shawn Begley at Orchard Grove Community Church in Walled Lake, Michigan. The design uses five…
Lisa Masteller put this series backdrop together based around a cool area rug she found at Lowes. Shoji screens were arranged on both sides of the stage from top to bottom…then the area rug hung in the middle as the main visual. Her original goal was…
Light PillarsThis was a stage design created for FBC…
Stained Paper PanelsPatrick Fore from Journey Church in Norman, Oklahoma…
Raising the BarAt the Summit Church in Corpus Christi, Texas,…
The Fog (aka: The Haze)Information answering a few questions about fog and…
DMX vs. XLR CablesLet’s talk about DMX cables. Are microphone (XLR)…
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Lighting Design for Modern Houses of Worship
A book I just picked up from Amazon on lighting. It's a great introduction to lighting...geared especially toward lighting worship spaces. Cheapest price on Amazon.
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