newbie needs help

[jesuchete]

This my first time on this forum and so far I have been very impressed with the depth of knowledge and the willingness for everyone to help. Here is a picture of our worship center. Being in Africa we felt it necessary not put up any walls. So we get to preach to those even in their homes. We want to put up projection screens and we need help on deciding the best way to go. I was leaning towards rear projection.

[tdangelo]

For services being held at night projection may work for you. For daytime/daylight it will not.

[waynehoskins]

Sabona. That is the Ampitheatre at Byo., yes? I was there in '99 and mixed an event in that space.

I think you'll find projection during the day to be very impractical. That space is designed to be very natural-light-efficient (e.g., the slots in the wings). You would first have to make a dark spot on stage, then put a screen and a very bright (20k) projector there.

The flipside is that for anything at night, at least a decade ago, the lighting rig there was lousy. Not very bright and it spilled everywhere. I think we had to augment it with stuff we hired locally, and even then it wasn't very good. So you could put up a projection screen at night, but chances are it'd be washed out.

I'm thinking your best shot for daytime projection would be an LED screen made of Barco panels. I know they're expensive here in the states, which means most likely unavailable and, even if they were available, completely unaffordable in Zim.

[jesuchete]

Thanks for the reply. Hey that is awesome that you were in Zim. Now that you have mentioned it I used the ampitheatre here as aexample what we are building in Norton 26 kms out of harare. We put an option where we can drop pvc cloth walls. I am looking at chinese made LED panels. What do you think?