Triple Wide Media

I had this crazy idea yesterday… Would it help any of our community members that are Churches to see some visuals our staff may recommend for songs they may use Easter Weekend? My answer: yes!

So I decided to jump over to PraiseCharts.com & CCLI to find the most played songs. For now we’ve only posted 3 songs… but we’ll be adding more later. If you want specific songs, let us know by leaving a comment below!

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You’ve probably never seen someone VJ in a club with triplewide screens before? It’s been done — We’ve found a video jokey out there that VJ’s with a triple wide screen setup. Its cool to see that this is guy is adopting some of this “expanding the canvas” style of projection we talk about here a lot and trying to make his visuals such a vibrant part of the experience. Note that this guy is actually in a club, making visuals is an active part of his Auditory experience.

I was reminded by two things when seeing this video last week. First, I was reminded that we can tell a greater story when we (more…)

There’s a ministry right down the road from our offices in Nashville… It’s called Kairos. They meet every tuesday night and it’s nothing short of incredible. They have been able to be foster community among college students and young adults in a unique way. The service is actually led by the senior pastor of the church as well! Every once in a while they do Environmental Projection… mostly for night of worship events which happen about 4-6 times a year. But every christmas they do a special service called “A Kairos Christmas.”

It’s not much different than most churches, but our friend Stephen Proctor helped out last year and was able to capture the worship on his flip. What I love about this and why we wanted to share this here is that it only shows one screen. We have had a lot of fun sharing videos that showcase very elaborate setups with really wide projection, but we haven’t shown any single screen content.

As many of you know, TripleWide Media actually gives you three sizes with every purchase (Triple-Wide, Double-Wide AND Single-Wide). So we thought it would be fitting to showcase a christmas program that used projection as a backdrop but only used the single-screen versions.

You may not be able to do Environmental or multi-screen this Christmas due to planning, money or (more…)

I got convicted this past week… as I realized that most of the blogs and examples I write here are pretty elaborate and detailed projection setups. They’re “bigger and better” if you will. That’s not the purpose of EP at all… it’s the subtlety of projection and content that can be just as effective.

I am grateful for what  Camron wrote last week. About how projection can draw people into worship and how with subtle textures and colors, we can actually create powerful visuals to compliment our worship settings. In the end we will be able to help our congregations engage with our Heavenly Father. The purpose of EP isn’t to “wow” people or create a spectacle that people cause people to come to church. If that’s what were trying to accomplish, then we have put our faith in the wrong thing. Remember what Camron said, “EP isn’t a screen to be watched, but instead it’s more like ‘digital wallpaper’…”

Environmental projection or multi-screen doesn’t have to be elaborate to be effective. Those two words are independent of each other. EP can be really simple and really effective. EP is art. So is graphic design.

Let’s take these two print advertisements as an example. Both were very effective. They conveyed a brand well (in their own respective ways). They contained information and (more…)

If you’re involved in media in the Church in any way, you have probably heard of Environmental Projection and how it’s one of the most dynamic and cost-effective ways to enhance your worship space with imagery. I want to share some ways to better use EP but first I think it’s important to understand why we are using Environmental Projection and where it comes from.

At first glance, Environmental Projection appears to be incredibly simple – shine a projector on a wall and show an image. However, it’s so much more important and so much deeper than that. When you use Environmental Projection with intentionally, it can actually draws people’s minds and spirits into worship and in contrast when it’s used poorly, it can be an entertaining distraction.

When I first started doing EP at my church, (more…)

When it comes to using multi-screen setups, content is the most critical part.  Think about it, we can spend all the time and money in the world getting the right screens, projectors, multi-screen processors, televisions and computers, but if we don’t have visuals that amplify our emotions and elicit a response, that stuff is nothing more than a flashy setup lacking purpose.

It’s content that takes our audiences to new places. It’s content that reminds us of the power of the cross. It’s content that takes our breath away when we see the magnitude and beauty of the heavens. It’s content that makes cool technology come to life! But it’s also content that ruins everything. That’s exactly why choosing the right content is so critical. Over the past few weeks I’ve written about motion, texture and today I write about one of the most important factors of creating an environment…. Color.

Tip #3: Color.

Psychologists have been studying color for a long time. In 1960 there was a breakthrough, a psychologist by the name of Charles E. Osgood conducted a series of tests that tested his theory that color effects emotion. After about a year of testing and hundreds of individual studies of all cultures around the world, Osgood wrote this in his final conclusions of results. (more…)

Every Summer there are literally thousands of events going on in the youth ministry world. One of my personal favorite memories of summer youth ministry was going to beach camp every year. Traveling with some of your closest friends, hanging out at the pool (with the required belly flop contests of course), playing volleyball on the beach, body surfing the waves and getting some peace and quite on the shores of Panama City Beach, FL.

When I ask people about similar memories we quickly realize that my experience at a camp called BigStuf was a bit different than most. My friends share of an experience with a no production during their services. They share about small hotel rooms where they would gather to do a bible study and overall the entire “camp” experience was a “get-a-way” experience without technology. That’s not exactly what BigStuf Camps is all about.
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The other day, we blogged about the new Pink Floyd (or Roger Water) tour and how they are using over 300,000 lumens and projecting over 240 feet wide of video every night on their tour. We blog a lot about really creative set designs, innovative projection/video uses and other really “out there” ideas and sometimes I wonder if we ever get practical?

The thing I am really passionate about when it comes to multi-screen projection is the simple idea that we can create incredibly powerful environments with ease. Simply grab a multi-screen processor, a laptop and some of the amazing content on our site and you’re all set to go! However sometimes in order for the projection to be effective we must be able to understand how to create an environment without projection.

I stumbled upon this in Church Production Magazine the other day and was inspired to see what this Church is doing. Christ Church in Hickory, NC has recently created a very innovative set design WITHOUT PROJECTION!!! (What!?!? That’s actually possible?). Yes, in fact I think they have done a superb job.

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There are all sorts of reasons to use multi-screen projection or for that matter, video, in an event. Many times I work with people who say that they need video in their event, and when I begin to dig a bit deeper and ask the question “why?” the array of answers are quite comical.  Sometimes people want to use video because they feel the pressure that it is a requirement to have a live event. That is not true. Some events feel the need to have video because its a large event and the people in the back need to see the action. That is (more…)