Let me just say, this wasn't our original idea. We were searching for new stage design ideas and found this idea online where other churches were using crunched screen for a lighting surface. I just wanted to tell you this really works and it is stupid simple. And most importantly, since the point of this blog is great worship enhancements ON A BUDGET, this fits that bill perfectly as well! Go to your local Home Depot and pick up some screen cheap to get these great results. We are blessed to have great lighting, but you can use any par can with enough watts to light this to get a fresh look for your stage. In our case, the only other tools we needed to make it work was a staple gun to staple the screen to the back walls.
To get started PUT ON GLOVES! Metal screen will poke holes in your skin! Unroll the screen off the roll and just start at one end and start balling it up. Important, if the length you are trying to fill is 10 feet, then unroll 12 feet or so, because when you crumple it and stretch it back out the crumples will take up some of the length. Be safe and unroll more than you need, because you can always trim the excess. There is no precise method to the rolling, just ball it up and then stretch it back out to unfold it. The only important factor is to crumple it consistently, you want a uniform look across the stage.
The lights are installed from the bottom. This creates a great shadow effect within all the pockets where the screen in blocking the light.
Overall effect on our youth stage. We have red lights mounted to the floor for shadows, and a blue led mounted on the ceiling shining directly on the screen.
Back wall of our main stage. The lights are mounted above the crumpled screen. See picture below, the red wall behind the singers is crumpled screen, and we put strips of crumpled screen in-between the projector screens to fill in some dead space.
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