How To Kill A Church, a series at Riverview, April 2010.

A local construction company allowed us to borrow a trailer full of rubble and cinder blocks. After hauling the rocks in and getting them arranged (with plastic drop cloth protecting the carpet) we started building our steeple. The steeple was built almost entirely from scrap materials from other sets. The siding is ripped down 1/4in plywood and there are 1x4s trimming the edges. Once the basic structure was together we started on the cupola and “stained glass” window (actually made with plexi glass, light filters/gels and gaff tape.) The finishing touch was shingling the roof and setting the top on. There is a 60watt light inside hooked up to a dimmer.

The projection is different depending on the part of the service we are in and there are some subtle video background effects (birds and waves) during the music sets.

“I am…” a series at Riverview, March 2010.

We cut out 4ft circles from MDF sheets, painted them white and designed brackets to hang them on the wall with a 3in space between the circles and the wall. The background projection was carefully set up to project onto the circles (different designs each week.)

Psalms, a series at Riverview, February 2010.

Our Creative Director, Kristie, designed a custom image for the background projection, we did not do a physical build. I should note that she creates (an impressive) projection theme for all of the series that we do.

AND, a series at Riverview, January 2010.

From three sheets of 4ft x 8ft x 1.5in foam insulation we cut out nine ampersands of various sizes. The ampersands were given several coats of yellow paint (leftover from the “The Undead” series) and then attached to small pedestals so they would stand upright freely.

Like Jesus, a series at Riverview, November 2009.

We set up six sheets of paper (from a 150ft roll) slightly distanced from the back wall. The background projection was masked in Keynote to only display on the paper, with video running during the music sets.

The cross center stage is a plywood structure wrapped in the same paper we used on the back wall.