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Free Series Stage Design

// September 20th, 2010 // No Comments » // Stage Design

Wow, my apologies for a long time with no blog. As many of you may know, I just got married so I’ve been a bit consumed with wedding details and keeping up with a website for that.

We’ve had a few stage designs go by and I wanted to share them with you. We just finished up a series called “Free.” It was a very powerful series looking at what it means to be free. Here was the conceptualization for this design:

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The idea with the platforms was a little risky and went through several variations before we settled on this. For the backdrops, we used landscaping fabric and Colin splattered/brushed white paint on each one. Photos coming soon!

Response Stage Design Part 2

// April 23rd, 2010 // 13 Comments » // Stage Design

This could be our most versatile stage design we’ve ever done. I was greatly satisfied at the number of looks we were able to achieve. Our friend Lester Hamrick loaned us 2 of his Elation Power Spot 250s for accents. Instead of talking, here are the photos:

To mimic the series graphic (see previous post)

Response Stage Design Part 1

// April 23rd, 2010 // 8 Comments » // Stage Design

We just began an 8 weeks series addressing what it means and does not mean to worship. “Our church culture often defines worship as a specific time during a Sunday morning service that consists of some praise choruses, or perhaps a specific music service that occurs during the week. Certainly, that is one way people connect with God. But, we may be limiting ourselves by missing some of the most valuable meanings of worship. It was never intended to be a simple activity that we perform but something much broader. In reality, it was not even supposed to originate with us.” – BR Teaching Team

Tim conceptualized this design to use offset 2′x4′ pieces of white coroplast. The idea was to use 16′ vertical 2x4s on 4′ centers. We would staple one end of the chloroplast to the stud and the other end would be offset approximately 8″ from the stud. I modified our original 3d models to illustrate the assembly in a way much better than I can describe:

Tim, Colin and Todd will attest to how difficult I can be to work with at times. I tend to over think and over analyze details of ideas or concepts and immediately move to “what are the potential problems with this idea?” or “can I immediately identify challenges we’ll need to consider ahead of time?” when brainstorming. Talk about a Debbie Downer for the creative process. In this case, I was worried about the 12″ spacers creating undesirable shadows when downlit and I was also worried that the spaces between the panels wouldn’t look right. For both cases, I was wrong. In hindsight, I think the shadows and spaces played to our advantage once we got color on it.

The entire structure is braced to the back wall and safetied. For sidelight we used the AC Lighting Color Splits (one per side), 5 High End Studio Beams above it, 6 ETC S4 Jr for band backlight and 5 S4 Jr Zooms for Vocal frontlight. Fresh pics to follow….

T3 Stage Design

// February 5th, 2010 // 4 Comments » // Stage Design, Video

We just wrapped up our 2nd Series of the year. I suppose I must have gotten distracted along the way because I totally did not take any photos of it. I do, however, have a special documentation of the process thanks to Tim and Colin. They setup a Canon 7D and took photos every 30 seconds during work hours all the way up until Sunday morning into the 1st Service.

About the design:
- We wanted something warm
- We got the lanterns from The Paper Lantern Store (along w/ 15′ cables)
- Used 40 watt bulbs
- For power distribution, we found a great 12 outlet distro at Harbor Freight for $20. We replaced the ends from Edison to Stage Pin and it worked like a charm.

Between the 15′ extensions and the distros, we should have a really nice setup for future designs when we want to incorporate lots of dimmable incandescent fixtures.