GOBO Projector Advice sought by Novice

[LadyofHexham]

Please help,

 

I am currently doing an art project in a Church and would like to project images in a space as yet unidentified. I have no experience using projectors, but am interested in the use of gobos.

 

I don't want to buy from new but would like information on equipment needed. I propose to make the gobo images myself if possible. The images I want to project will ideally rotate, and be different colours. My intention is to project up to 5 different images.

 

many thanks.

 

Lady of Hexham.

[son of lx dad]

Hi and welcome.

 

To advise you best we need to be a little bit more specific about what you are after as there are a few ways to achieve what you want depending on the intention.

 

When you say you wish to project 5 different images is that 5 simultaneously or 1 at a time?

 

You say the image will be different colours, do you mean 1 image will be more than one colour or each image will be a single different colour?

 

Is this a long term install or a one off?

 

Depending on your answers this may be more of a Lighting question than an AV question - maybe worth a move Mods?

 

It may be that having some custom metal gobos made for a moving light is the right direction, or even glass. In any situation it would be unlikely that you could create a proper gobo for yourself of sufficient quality to project onto a wall. It could be that 5 S4s and a dimmer pack with a rotator in each might do the job.

 

Maybe a company such as NiteLites near Newcastle would be able to show you some of the alternatives in a lighting point of view.

 

Even though you talk about gobos it could be that a digital projector with a powerpoint presentation which has 5 slides that you create and animate may be more versatile and possibly even cheaper on a long term install.

 

More info please