Boring set

[bri4827]

I do some work for a church who videocast's their sermon into a second room for video playback. We finally have a decent Panasonic HD cam (the model escapes me at the moment), and decent lighting in the room but the back wall of the alter bores me to death. It is a one camera shoot. There is no height to the shot, and I am drawing a blank for a feature that can sit on stage without interrupting the normal service too much, or looking to tacky or staged, and that the powers that be would approve of. I've thought about gobos, but I can't find a good placement for the fixture. Any suggestions? I've attached a pic from one of our services.

[avkid]

Perhaps tall floral arrangements or a nice wooden cross? (if appropriate)

[bri4827]

There is actually a little one behind him now - it really needs to be bigger but for the space anything more would seem like too much - I've always wanted to find a couple old racks of pipe organ pipes and set them up behind there, but I couldn't get it approved

[NickJones]

People dancing in animal costumes. Makes things more interesting every time.

[BrianWolfe]

Some draped fabric could work. Also the lillies could be made to look more interesting by raising some to make a more interesting profile rather than a dull straight line. Wood paneling would look interesting if allowed.

[jrgunn]

Depending on the size of the space, consider painting the wall something other than white that coordinates with the colors in the rest of the room; I convinced my pastor to do so, and the wall behind the platform is now a rich burnt sienna with a light toning dry wash. It looks terrific on video and the pastor pops right out of the background.

[gafftaper]

-What about a banner with some sort of inspirational saying on it. Lots of churches use these and change them with seasonal sayings.

-Or go with nature. Tall plants. A trellis with ivy vines. A larger cross is a great idea.

-Just repainting the back wall some sort of interesting textured color would help dramatically.

[BrianWolfe]

Another idea that might work would be a fake window(stained glass or not). Not that I am trying to sell anything but we make vacuum formed paneling that looks like wood panels.
Armour

We have a nice gothic window too:
Armour

[g15]

that stained-glass windows made out of gel that's sitting in the shop??

[sk8rsdad]

Paint the back wall chroma-key green and drop in whatever background you like with a video mixer. Hours of fun for everyone.

Sorry but I've been fighting the urge to say that all day.