Mike Schwiebert at Grace Covenant in Cornelius, NC sent us some great pics of his BAR252s in action, lighting a super cool scenic rock wall–a perfect application for the product. Mike appears to have a good bit of conventional gear in the air too. Great to see the BAR252s keeping up and maintaining great visual punch.
Thanks for sharing Mike!!
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Good stuff going on over at Southland these days! A new upstage projection surface was added in early December to provide graphics support for teaching. The screen drove the plot and stage layout for the next season.
To compliment the screen, Schedule 40 pipe configured in trapezoids was flown to provide aerial positions stage left, stage right and center. Source4 Pars lined the downstage side of the flown trapezoids. To help shape the rig around the large video surface, Akalite octostrips were hung to accentuate the upstage to downstage lines of the flown pipe.
Christmas Eve services included some salvaged 20k Fresnels to complement downstage soloist placement.
Current worship look: Mac600s, Bargeheights 1200s, Akalite Octostrips and new Bargeheights 1200MkII’s pack a punch. 26deg Lekos provide minimalistic band backlight.
Downstage Worship Leaders looking good, illuminated with a system of lekos and L&E ministrips for footlight.
The new Bargeheights 1200MkII’s (far SL, SR) have some impressive output, and width!
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During the end of 2011, Bargeheights partnered with Turning Point church to renovate an existing worship space, inherited from a partner church. The existing 50′ by 50′ industrial space utilized for worship was functional, but not consistent with the vision and values of the church. The color palette was a bit confused and the stage and production systems under equipped to support the church’s vision for a dynamic, progressive style of worship.
[Overview of the space before renovation]
The Bargeheights team provided detailed design drawings, beginning with space renderings to help Turning Point leadership determine the best selection of production system options. Later in the process, Bargeheights issued a detailed drawing package to guide stage construction, electrical infrastructure and production systems integration.
[Initial Design Rendering]
[New Colors going up in the space. The color palette designed by Bargeheights helped tie existing floor finish and chairs to the new, crisp aesthetic.]
“The room presented some challenges. A small stage existed in the corner. While too small, the idea of a corner stage worked within the room and helped breakup what otherwise is a very square space. During the design phase, we elected to keep a corner stage location, but stretched width and included a radiused front to help soften the more expansive stage platform. The curves also helped define seating within the room, providing a relief from the hard lines of a square space.
To provide the best possible sight lines, and offer a visual “punch”, we landed on a three screen video solution. Cost was extremely reasonable for visual impact, facilitated by three DLP projectors with content delivered by ProPresenter. The elongated rectangle of 3 16:9 screens also helped balance the width of the new stage.
The final result is a functional modern worship space with clean lines and a crisp color palette. The lighting system features Bargeheights LED36s for upstage scenic wash, LED36′s for backlight and six ETC Source4 Jr lekos for frontlight. ETC Dimming was also integrated to provide control of existing houselights. Lighting control is facilitated by a Chamsys MagicQ PC solution. Velour softgoods hung stage left, combined with careful selection of paint colors ensured the upstage LED wash maintained punch to dynamically propel color throughout the space.
[A new stage, with complimenting radiuses, and a small "side stage" for transition speakers helps support the church's vision for multi-campus video based teaching from day one.]
[A Bargeheights LED lighting solution offers cost effective visual impact loaded with flexibility.]
More Pics of Turning Point’s renovation here
Another look for Southland Christian!!! We’ve been on a design kick of “self-illuminating scenery”– it’s an awfully cheap way to build in some “punch” into a light rig while also creating something scenic. This stage look attempts to take full advantage of the self-illuminating scenery idea–and dials up scale big time!
JRAGS (16×16 self-dimming banks of MR-16 lamps) are literally everywhere in design right now. The warm, punchy glow of loads and loads of little tungstan lamps is nothing short of pure bliss. I’ve had a strong desire–ok, more like an obsession (NOT obsession as in an old ETC desk) for some of the punchy warm low temp awesomeness. However, Southland’s stage is very wide for its height (almost 4x width to height), so it often takes a LOT of scale to make a statement. Since an appropriately sized system of JRAGs was well beyond budget, we decided to take the idea of a Jrag and expand it: bigger lamps with larger spacing to gain more impact.
I’ve also wanted to play with arcs and curves and sightlines in the space make smooth subtle arcs really impressive. So, we landed on big graduated arcing light walls.
We lamped each reflector within the light wall with a 75w mirror lamp to create the radiating circle look of old school ray light kits. Each lamp base assembly was wired to a terminal block, and then circuited to our self-built low wattage dimmers using zip cord. A separate universe of DMX was delivered to the mini-dimmers and then patched as a pixel mapped surface within Southland’s ETC EOS. For programming, we shot video clips across the wall to create waves, wipes and bumps, even some low-resolution text.
The remainder of the lighting rig utilizes existing gear. We hung clusters of two source4 pars, a leko and either a colormerge of Bargeheights 1200 profile on sch40 pipe, positioned at varied elevation to mirror the arc of the clamp light wall. Pars and lekos formed three separate systems of backlight. The flown Colormerge and BH profiles are used for aerials. The clusters of lighting gear helped shape the rig and provided a nice break from more typical catwalk backlight positions. We also placed a system of moving washes upstage of the clamp light wall–an effective ground rig when the light wall is lower in intensity.
This look was all about scale. Even small things, with enough repetition can fill a space! As always, you can check out some more photos over at the BH Flickr Page.
