Screen projections

[Alcott]

There is a thread in this section going about this topic, but it is without a poll. Which of these does your church use projections for? Check all that apply.

 

[SBCPreacher]

We use our projector in the PM service. I have to use a portable screen and it is in front of the choir loft.

 

[FriendofSpurgeon]

We have two large multi-media screens that are high above the choir. See below from a concert.

 

[Alcott]

That's very much like our setup, except the screens are further apart and our ceiling isn't so V-shaped, though it looks that way from the outside.

 

[Jim1999]

Do you sell popcorn and crackerjacks to boot?

Cheers,

Jim

 

[annsni]

I answer this poll as I am sitting on the sanctuary projection computer scanning pictures for a funeral tomorrow night.

We use it for all of the things in the service - songs (with backgrounds), special music (usually just a background but if there's a verse that is appropriate, I'll put that in too), for all announcements and sometimes for the sermon notes when it's a more complicated sermon note thing (like if there are diagrams Pastor wants to show).

For the funeral service, I'll have 2 songs, a "in memory of..." with a nice picture behind it and then also a slide show showing the deceased's life. It's very nice.

 

[Alcott]

It's probably already happened somewhere that the deceased preached his own funeral.

 

[Jim1999]

Good one, Alcott...I wonder how he or she gets paid for preaching the funeral?

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Alcott]

I just looked it up, and one site offers a To Preach Your Own Funeral cassette tape from 1979. So maybe the idea is not so novel; just the video part of it.

 

[FriendofSpurgeon]

Do you sell popcorn and crackerjacks to boot?

Cheers,

Jim

Cute.

The picture above was taken during a concert one Saturday evening. During worship services, the screens are normally filled with either worship songs or Scripture readings. Our call to worship each Sunday morning is usually a responsive reading of one of the Psalms, so the screens work very well.

 

[Jim1999]

Not for me. I can't read them, but that is my problem. I can. however, read a hymnal and my Bible for scripture readings.

Thankfully the offering plate is brass with green felt inside. I can feel my way around it.

At least the local pictures don't pass a collection plate,,,,,,,,,,,yet!

Cheers,

Jim

 

[mcdirector]

Our set up is very much like FriendOfSpurgeon's - our baptistery is in the middle and the stained glass is rectangular above that - otherwise, pretty close.

We also have a screen that comes down over the baptistery for the words. Two on the sides have pix of what's going on - like the preacher.

In chapels, we only use the ones on the sides.

I have a hard time reading the words from the balcony or sides - even with my glasses on I frequently still have to squint. color combinations are really important for something like this. Words need to be crisp.

 

[SBCPreacher]

I have a hard time reading the words from the balcony or sides - even with my glasses on I frequently still have to squint. color combinations are really important for something like this. Words need to be crisp.

Age, sis???

 

[padredurand]

We have a single screen. Being a non-denominational church plant we didn't have any traditions to follow and the freedom to start a few of our own. Anytime there is a Bible passage projected we all read it aloud in unison. Everybody, young and old alike. :thumbs:

Poor Bitsy! Do you need to get some binoculars? How about some opera glasses? We actually tested a series of slides with the congregation. We ran permutations of colors and fonts to find what worked best in the auditorium. We ended up with a plain black background and Times New Roman font in white. For our room it works best. There are so many variable starting with the screen, projector, ambient light, etc.

 

[Magnetic Poles]

I hear Bitsy also has a rolling pin. You guys are walking on thin ice.

 

[donnA]

Do you sell popcorn and crackerjacks to boot?

Cheers,

Jim

You mock everyone don't you.

 

[annsni]

I have a hard time reading the words from the balcony or sides - even with my glasses on I frequently still have to squint. color combinations are really important for something like this. Words need to be crisp.

That's what takes me so long sometimes. I'll find a great background for a song but then I can't make the words clear enough to see in a bright sanctuary so I have to find another song. I always make sure the words are large and easy to read.

 

[Mexdeaf]

Do you sell popcorn and crackerjacks to boot?

Cheers,

Jim

Humpf! I am old enough to remember when those wire-rimmed glasses that you are wearing (or it appears so in your avatar) were sin!:smilewinkgrin:

 

[FriendofSpurgeon]

We also have a screen that comes down over the baptistery for the words. Two on the sides have pix of what's going on - like the preacher.

We do something similar -- show close ups of the pastor & the person being baptized. Otherwise (especially if you are in the back or balcony), you can't see a thing.

For communion, we also use the screens. Various Scriptures are run on the screens while the elements are being distributed.

 

[SBCPreacher]

I hear Bitsy also has a rolling pin. You guys are walking on thin ice.

I ain't a-feared!