The Prevalence of Projections

[derekleffew]

Good article on current use of projections in the theatre: Theatre Communications Group - American Theatre – Decmber 2011 .

 

[calkew5]

I've recently become the de facto projection designer of my small theatre company. During our last renovation (before my time) they sprung for an LCD projector and a wide-throw lens. Combine that with Qlab and the relatively cheap pro video license (my idea) and we've been able to take our set design to a lot of interesting new places. We don't always get it right and we're still figuring out what the heck we're doing but it's a fun frontier.

I love Mr. Billington's quote. You HAVE to have a director that's okay with making everyone take a step downstage.

 

[chausman]

Where are you projecting from in those three pictures? That must be a rather powerful projector.

I know icewolf08 has used projection a lot, just from his pictures.

 

[calkew5]

The first is rear and the other two are front. In the first, we employed a really fun mirror rig to fold the image and double the size. The projector in that setup is directly over the screen, pointed at the floor behind the screen where a 4x8 covered in mirrors is angled toward the screen of white spandex. The second is dead-on from the front at a slight incline and was pretty simple. The third has the projector about at the apron and all the way stage right, making for some interesting keystoning issues.

The projector is a Christie LCD projector with about 5k lumens if I've got my numbers right.