Before the days of digital media, I worked with some rear and front sceen projected slide projectors at times. One
play was called something like "Baby" though probably not it's full title, this
play gave me the heebie jievies in being a really bad
play. Talent and production were fine, just the songs, script and images chosen to project each night I sat at the light board for just drove me up a wall. Probably the worst well produced
play I was ever a part of as opposed to others on the Worst list for me. Anyway, it had a lot of projected media - especially slides of babys... all
thru it. Not cute, not romantic just badly written in being opressive - if even popular for the 1970s. This is our topic for
play, this is what you will be singing and presenting on
stage good and meaningful script or not. I suspect that now that I'm in my upper 30's I should re-read what while I was 19 found the worst
play ever.
In doing projectors elsewhere, even had a 500w
slide projector at my old theater but I never got around to using them. I knew a
bit about projected images, compensating for
throw distance and angle to the projection
screen and thus also knew correcting for this by way of
image projected would be expensive to get it right. Never tried the
slide projector concept thus, much less had time to do slides for a production design. Wonder what ever happened to that thing.
Digital media beyond a TV
screen or wall of them on the set I expect does not have the problems the older forms had with keeping the lights off the projection
screen and it washing the
image out. Than of course it might still dependant upon the
projector and wattage if not modern video
screen and instead some lower wattage
projector pointed at a
flat surface.
IN any case if of help, it's frequently a challenge to keep the lighting off washing out the video
screen as the main consideration. DPI can than if
projector become a problem as with
intensity. I remember with some
Barco fixtures at one
point, they made a long life version but the long life version was less graphic in
image quality. This might not be as much a problem in a longer
throw or less graphic presentation but would become one where the
throw distance was short and the
image graphic. Mostly though if
projector, there is only one lamp available. If video
screen wall that takes it's
image directly from the computer, graphic projection and
throw distance probably won't be much of a problem. These days I frequently see a wall of video stuff going up on some show in rehearsal. No idea of how such stuff works but I know they are bright and don't fight
reflection or
wash out.
About what I know anyway if of help in refining the issue any or saying, yep done that, not the thing I most like designing around also. I perfer Linenbacher projectors myself.