Our very first stage... What a beautiful thing.
Ok - Enough with the emotions.
Having no idea how to plan a stage, or even how to research it or figure our lighting, space, or even a budget... I googled stages. Pretty original, and I bet none of you have ever done that before... HA
I failed to tell you, at the beginning of our church meeting history (for lack of better words) We met in a middle school auditorium. Which is a challenge that no one in the world could be prepared enough to tackle. So in that, we had to have everything set up in 30 minutes or less, so that the band and staff could run rehearsal and then services would start directly after that. AND we had to tear everything down in about 15 minutes. Let the games begin I guess. - oh and we had to run electricity from all over the building because it was an old school and we used too much electricity I guess, so we kept blowing circuits and fuses left and right.
Any-who...
One of the very first stages I found that didn't take crazy electronics or materials I'd never heard of, was a stage from a concert. The Fray had a stage set up that was all lamps, and light bulbs. I thought, well I know I have about 10 lamps in my room alone, this could work. I sent out some emails and found about 25 lamps altogether. We set up the lamps all over the left side of the stage and put them all on dimmer packs so we could control them from the sound booth ( one of the first things I learned how to do, that made me feel so cool ) ( yes, I'm a loser. No shame. )
- I bet your also wondering, why the HECK do they use such a humongous screen? I hated that screen. but it was all that we had, and we had no clue how to use other materials as screens and our projector was huge and old. We have since then changed our ways, thank goodness.
That was a fun, easy stage. By the end of this sermon series I was so sick of plugging and un-plugging lamps it was not even funny.
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