Video 'banners'

[lifeboat]

Hi.

 

A possibly unusual topic here - in terms of application anyhow.

 

I wonder if it is possible to consider the use of video projection onto stage side banners? I suppose that as a rough guesstimate, we would use two custom made electric projector screens, let's say 1.4M wide x 4-5M height. The projection distance would be about 8 or 9Mtrs. The advantage of using video projection oto side banners is of course that it will give far more flexibility when compared to printed, custom banners.

 

Questions at this stage are;

 

#1. Can such electric projection screens be obtained?

#2. Is it conceivable that one projector mounted each side could fill each screen, with suitable design of images or masking? Or, would two stacked projectors be required with edge blending?

#3. Other options under consideration would to be use GOBO's - with less flexibiity of easily changing the images.

 

Any thought or advice would of course be appreciated.

 

Tks

lifeboat

[charl.ie]

Re #2: If you could find a projector that could cope being on it's side (do they exist?) then a widescreen one rotated 90 degrees would be much better at filling the area than a normal-ratio one. Obviously you would then need to rotate the visuals being projected as well.

Some video card drivers allow this: We used to have great fun rotating peoples computer monitors upside down, so they had no idea what was going on. The shortcut was ctrl+alt+winkey+arrow key or something.

[Pete McCrea]

Yeap. The CLM range from Barco would be quite happy living like that. However £21k for a projector simply for advertising might be a bit too much of a cap-ex to justify.

[GRisdale]

#3. Other options under consideration would to be use GOBO's - with less flexibiity of easily changing the images.

You might want to look at Rosco ImagePro as a middle ground.

 

Gareth.

[MADeffects.com]

Yeap. The CLM range from Barco would be quite happy living like that. However £21k for a projector simply for advertising might be a bit too much of a cap-ex to justify.

 

this would be a good product for yous for advertising at each side of the stage and you simply just roll it up and hang it from truss.

Its our flexible led curtain in 20mm pitch. we connected the LED curtain to our laptom and just played an image of our logo to show what the LED curtain can do.

http://www.madeffects.com/flexible-led-cur...-pitch-77-c.asp