Thursday, September 18, 2008
Every Thursday, Ragamuffin Soul hosts a "blog carnival" where bloggers can share creative things they're doing at their church to reach people for Christ. I'm jumpin into the chaos...
This coming weekend at Palm Valley Church will be the third week of a five week teaching series called Ultimate Fighter. It's been a killer series thus far. Not because of cool videos, music, graphics, or staging (that you'll get a glimpse at in a moment) but because men in our community are waking up to who Christ is, what He has to offer them, and what He's calling them to. Killer stuff.
First off, if you're not familiar with Palm Valley, we're portable. When meet at a high school in a southwest suburb of Phoenix. We run five identical services each weekend, utilizing the school's auditorium as our worship center.
For this series, we transformed our stage to resemble a UFC "octagon". The large set created a space dilemma for our band so we found space on stage we hadn't used before. Although I was involved with conceptualizing the set design, Sean Smith (our Pastor of Creative Arts) is to credit for pulling it off. There's nothing this guy can't make happen on a stage.
Enjoy the pics!
BTW - cool new blog look!
What do you think Sean?
I am always grateful, when I return to Creative Chaos after I post.
Great stuff and looking forward to seeing more.
Thanks bro! We're using a couple of different things for the platforms.
The drums are on two 5'x7' pieces of scaffolding we borrowed from a painter in the church. We tied them together and screwed in two large 4'x8' pieces of 3/4" plywood. Pretty simple.
The platform the guitarist is on is actually a drum major riser. :) We meet at a school and have a good relationship with the band director. They've allowed us to use their risers, baby grand piano, and some other odds and ends as well.
Scaffolding is great to have around or available to borrow. We've used it to fly projectors as well. It goes up easy, comes down easy, and stores small. A no-brainer for a portable church.
- DLo
Thanks,
Greg
Sorry I'm late responding to this...
Nothing special about the screen. It's a standard rear projection screen (16'x9'). Feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like more details on where we got it or anything.
Thanks,
- Derrick
Would love it if you would share pictures on a new flickr group (flickr creative elements design WAREHOUSE lab) that specifically focuses on sharing set/stage design elements for worship spaces.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/924150@N22/
This is a tight set and would love to see it posted there. With a link to your blog (if you want)
Adn details, lots of details...
Thanks