We give film shows to hospice / WI/residential homes/etc. Can anyone suggest
best choice of screen type with good gain and wide viewing angle. We are
on a fairly tight budget!
Advice please on choosing screen for small hall
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tom hardwick
Re: Advice please on choosing screen for small hall
You could try www.widescreen-centre.co.uk Ron.
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Alan Smith
Re: Advice please on choosing screen for small hall
"tom hardwick" <tomh@rdwick.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
had found a simple solution but I will certainly follow up your idea.
Thanks for taking the trouble.
Alan
Thanks for the suggestion Tom. I was hoping for a reply from a "user" whoYou could try www.widescreen-centre.co.uk Ron.
had found a simple solution but I will certainly follow up your idea.
Thanks for taking the trouble.
Alan
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Dave Watterson
Re: Advice please on choosing screen for small hall
"Alan Smith" <forums@theiac.org.uk> wrote:
it reflects from the projector into a narrow angle. If it spreads the light
to a wider angle ... you lose "gain". A generally accepted figure is 1.1
or 1.2 gain which still allows a fairly wide viewing angle.
You can get tripod mounted screens up to 96 inches square, which is pretty
darned big to get into a car! Seriously: consider how you will transport
your screen to various venues. That may determine how big a screen you get.
Widescreen Centre do a 96" square screen for £285.95. They also have a couple
of pdf data sheets to help you choose screens. Go to www.widescreen-centre.co.uk
and click on "Screens".
A box screen is better protected in transport than a tripod one but has to
be set on the floor or a table - and costs more.
The most easily transported - and capable of being made in huge sizes - are
framed screens. The catch is that to put them up you have to clip or bolt
together a metal framework, complete with stays fore-and-aft, and then button
or clip the screen material to it. That gets to be a real pain to assemble
and disassemble if you do a lot of shows.
Other things that make a difference:
Do consider making your own masking - black velvet or blackout material -
which you velcro around the edges of your screen to give 6" or so of deepest
black all round your picture. That alone makes every movie seem brighter.
Your DIY guys can doubtless come up with lots of ways of fixing it in place
without damaging the screen.
Budget for a couple of speaker stands so that the loudspeakers can be on
either side of the screen about one-third of the way up. (If the audience
can all see the speakers, then they can hear them clearly.) If you can't
afford posh stands look for old aspidistra stands or hat stands you can adapt.
Allow for the cost of those heavy rubber strips which lie flat on the floor
and have a curved top surface. You fit your wires into them and (1)people
don't trip over them easily and (b) the wires don't get kicked until the
connections are pulled out. Office suppliers sell them. Friendly office managers
may have some old ones they could donate to a good cause - it makes the firm
look good by supporting your community shows and encouraging safety.
Make sure your are covered for public liability insurance in case one of
your audience does trip, stick their fingers into the amplifier etc. Some
venues have insurance cover but it is usually wise to get your own. IAC office
can help.
Dave
You can't really have both. A screen gets "gain" by concentrating the lightWe give film shows to hospice / WI/residential homes/etc. Can anyone suggest
best choice of screen type with good gain and wide viewing angle.
it reflects from the projector into a narrow angle. If it spreads the light
to a wider angle ... you lose "gain". A generally accepted figure is 1.1
or 1.2 gain which still allows a fairly wide viewing angle.
You can get tripod mounted screens up to 96 inches square, which is pretty
darned big to get into a car! Seriously: consider how you will transport
your screen to various venues. That may determine how big a screen you get.
Widescreen Centre do a 96" square screen for £285.95. They also have a couple
of pdf data sheets to help you choose screens. Go to www.widescreen-centre.co.uk
and click on "Screens".
A box screen is better protected in transport than a tripod one but has to
be set on the floor or a table - and costs more.
The most easily transported - and capable of being made in huge sizes - are
framed screens. The catch is that to put them up you have to clip or bolt
together a metal framework, complete with stays fore-and-aft, and then button
or clip the screen material to it. That gets to be a real pain to assemble
and disassemble if you do a lot of shows.
Other things that make a difference:
Do consider making your own masking - black velvet or blackout material -
which you velcro around the edges of your screen to give 6" or so of deepest
black all round your picture. That alone makes every movie seem brighter.
Your DIY guys can doubtless come up with lots of ways of fixing it in place
without damaging the screen.
Budget for a couple of speaker stands so that the loudspeakers can be on
either side of the screen about one-third of the way up. (If the audience
can all see the speakers, then they can hear them clearly.) If you can't
afford posh stands look for old aspidistra stands or hat stands you can adapt.
Allow for the cost of those heavy rubber strips which lie flat on the floor
and have a curved top surface. You fit your wires into them and (1)people
don't trip over them easily and (b) the wires don't get kicked until the
connections are pulled out. Office suppliers sell them. Friendly office managers
may have some old ones they could donate to a good cause - it makes the firm
look good by supporting your community shows and encouraging safety.
Make sure your are covered for public liability insurance in case one of
your audience does trip, stick their fingers into the amplifier etc. Some
venues have insurance cover but it is usually wise to get your own. IAC office
can help.
Dave
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Alan Smith
Re: Advice please on choosing screen for small hall
Thanks for the advice Dave, we are getting some good feedback and it is much
appreciated. Yes we do raise the speakers and the audience like the audio.
Thanks to all, we will now have some better guidelines. Alan
"Dave Watterson" <david.filmsocs@virgin.net> wrote:
appreciated. Yes we do raise the speakers and the audience like the audio.
Thanks to all, we will now have some better guidelines. Alan
"Dave Watterson" <david.filmsocs@virgin.net> wrote:
"Alan Smith" <forums@theiac.org.uk> wrote:
We give film shows to hospice / WI/residential homes/etc. Can anyone suggest
best choice of screen type with good gain and wide viewing angle.
You can't really have both. A screen gets "gain" by concentrating the light
it reflects from the projector into a narrow angle. If it spreads the light
to a wider angle ... you lose "gain". A generally accepted figure is 1.1
or 1.2 gain which still allows a fairly wide viewing angle.
You can get tripod mounted screens up to 96 inches square, which is pretty
darned big to get into a car! Seriously: consider how you will transport
your screen to various venues. That may determine how big a screen you get.
Widescreen Centre do a 96" square screen for £285.95. They also have a couple
of pdf data sheets to help you choose screens. Go to www.widescreen-centre.co.uk
and click on "Screens".
A box screen is better protected in transport than a tripod one but has
to
be set on the floor or a table - and costs more.
The most easily transported - and capable of being made in huge sizes -
are
framed screens. The catch is that to put them up you have to clip or bolt
together a metal framework, complete with stays fore-and-aft, and then button
or clip the screen material to it. That gets to be a real pain to assemble
and disassemble if you do a lot of shows.
Other things that make a difference:
Do consider making your own masking - black velvet or blackout material
-
which you velcro around the edges of your screen to give 6" or so of deepest
black all round your picture. That alone makes every movie seem brighter.
Your DIY guys can doubtless come up with lots of ways of fixing it in place
without damaging the screen.
Budget for a couple of speaker stands so that the loudspeakers can be on
either side of the screen about one-third of the way up. (If the audience
can all see the speakers, then they can hear them clearly.) If you can't
afford posh stands look for old aspidistra stands or hat stands you can
adapt.
Allow for the cost of those heavy rubber strips which lie flat on the floor
and have a curved top surface. You fit your wires into them and (1)people
don't trip over them easily and (b) the wires don't get kicked until the
connections are pulled out. Office suppliers sell them. Friendly office
managers
may have some old ones they could donate to a good cause - it makes the
firm
look good by supporting your community shows and encouraging safety.
Make sure your are covered for public liability insurance in case one of
your audience does trip, stick their fingers into the amplifier etc. Some
venues have insurance cover but it is usually wise to get your own. IAC
office
can help.
Dave