Spiked Rows

Clint Self, Grant Embury, Lucas Winkler, and Ben Pierce from Bethany Church in Baton Rouge, LA brings us this cool horizontal design. (originally posted May 2015)

The design consists of a few elements. Firstly, the triangular tiles were Paperforms from Mio Culture. They were lit from the bottom with 6 Elation QW LED Strips, and from the sides with 2 Elation Platinum ZFX moving LED fixtures.

In the center, they had a line of 24 regular incandescent bulbs that they mounted to pieces of wood that they painted flat black.

Above the tiles, they had a custom triple-wide screen that they built. It had 3 Christie projectors shooting on it. The content was blended across the 3 projectors with ProPresenter and a TripleHead2Go module.

Above the stage on the back truss, they had 9 Chauvet SlimPar LEDs, 2 more Elation Platinum ZFXs, and 6 incandescent pars without any gels (used as “blinders”) (not lit in the picture). On the truss above the front of the stage, they had 2 Martin Mac 101s, that they used for backlighting. On the front of the floor off to the sides, they had 6 Elation Platinum 5R Spots, and 2 HighEnd X-Spot Extremes. And lastly, the drums were lit from inside the drum shield with 2 Venue LED Pars.

They used 2 separate hazers: a Diffusion DF-50 (oil based), and a Unique 2.1 (water based). And the console running the lights was an Avolites Pearl Expert Pro, running Titan 8.4.

Their budget was $2,500, but they were well below that at only around $700 for the tiles.