New Year New Set
This is our new stage set for the new year. It's always fun seeing a project like this come together. I have to give some mad props to my coworkers Mitch & Jorge for coming up with the design and to the volunterers and staff that help pull this off.
The set is basically compromise of corrugated metal props and four tv stands with 50' plasmas.
Since our big screen is rear projected the metal props had to be hung from a truss that was supported on the ends by cable. The final truss is covered with black material but can still be seen in the photos below.
The metal props were fairly simple to build, they just required a lot of exact measurements to make sure everything was square and aligned properly. The basic frame is made up of two 2x4's and three 1x8's. The only difference between them were that we built three with three pieces of sheet metal and two with two sheets. Initially, the sheet metal was going to be flat up against the wood, but then opted for curving the sheet metal. This helped create more depth on the pieces and made for better lighting shadows and contrast. One of the concerns with using the sheet metal was that we didn't want it to look like a 80's youth room. Wood pieces were added to the metal props and the TV stands. The wood was lightly stained to give them a richer feel. Finally, the sheet metal was dabbed with white paint. Not only did this add a cool texture feel to the metal it helped the metal absorb the lighting instead of reflecting it.
When the stage was first proposed the TV's were going to be hanging off the same truss along with the metal props, largely because the TV stands we wanted cost $900 a piece. After given it some thought we didnt want to run the risk of loading the truss with so much weight.
So we decide to build our own stands out of wood. The basic frame of the stands was painted black, then two stained 1x8's were attached to tie in the stands to the rest of the set. Casters were added to the bottom of the frame to make them easier to move around. We used regular TV mounts that were secured to the frame. These homemade TV stands came out to $130 a stand including the mounts. All four TV's have the same signal that is control by separate pro presenter machine in the video room.
We all were really happy how it turned out. Again, I have to give huge props to the production staff and volunteers that helped with the set.
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