Anything white on a black background looked like nice sharp beams cutting through the air. Since it was a projector (and not a gobo in a light) we could put out any content we wanted. With lots of haze in the air the results were some pretty awesome beams that were very laser like if we wanted that effect. We happened to have a spare projector that’s pretty bright, 17,000 lumens! We positioned this upstage and shot it forward over the stage and over most of the audience. This year I got to try something I’ve been wanting to try for a long time, using a projector as a moving light.
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We pretty much get free reign with all the toys we have at our disposal, ha ha. It’s the students time to apply what they have learned so far and push themselves.įor us on staff it’s a chance to try and do some new and cool things on the tech side. This is their annual Christmas concert and it’s the first big concert of the school year. One of these December events is Oceans Edge School of Worship’s Not So Silent Night. Lots of big events leading up to Christmas! It’s that time of the year! 2013 is ending with a bang here at Calvary. Always cool when you can incorporate a little branding into the effects. The moving line was probably my second favorite. We actually used it on a song where it was the only light in the whole room and it was great. This created an awesome starry, twinkly, kinda look. I think that my favorite effect was the small dots falling. You don’t need 17,000 lumens (but it helps, ha ha) you can try it out with a smaller projector just to see the effect. Feel free to rip them from YouTube and play around with a projector you may have lying around. I’m pretty sure we didn’t use everything but we wanted lots of options. Searching through stock content is sometimes more work than just creating stuff yourself if you know what you want.īelow is what we made.
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Creating everything ourselves also gave us full control over the look. Things rendered nice and fast since they were so simple. Taking away a color from white to change the look is way easier than creating content in a specific color and then trying to get white instead.Īfter seeing what worked and what we liked I created some simple stuff in After Effects. Take away green and you’re left with magenta for example. White is also easy to color correct into other colors. This gave us the most contrast possible for the beams to cut through. I was really interested in beams for this show so white graphics with a black background seemed to work best.
Not that all colored content look bad, color bars through the air actually looked really cool, ha ha. Instead of individual beams you can end up with a frosted look. The really busy gobos may look good on the ground or wall as a texture but probably don’t look as good in the air through haze generally speaking. The gobos that give the most distinct beams are typically the least busy ones. The more negative space in the image, the easier it was to read. We started to find that the simpler the better since we’re trying to discern images in mid-air using haze.
We loaded up some content into Qlab and tried full color, complex stuff along with black and white, really simple stuff.
This made it easy to add into our Ableton show control rig. It’s also controllable from a variety of ways, MIDI notes, keyboard shortcuts, MIDI Show Control, iPad app, lots of options. We used Qlab since it is a very reliable media player and the new version adds a lot of on the fly controls for manipulating content. Stuff you just can’t do with a normal moving light. With the room hazed out we were able to create some pretty sweet animations. We took a 17,000 lumen projector, put it upstage center, and faced it towards the audience. For Not So Silent Night this year we played around with using a projector as a light source.
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