“Tension” series at Riverview.

We started by pulling the CRAVE series pegboard off the (horizontal) middle section of the false wall. We had built 14 stand/shelf units to set monitors on and ran all the wiring for the displays. Once the monitors were installed we put up sheets of hardboard (same material as the rest of the wall) and used a recessed lighting cut-out bit to create holes of varied sizes where the monitors are and painted the whole thing gray.

The three week CRAVE series at Riv.

We pulled down the black fabric from our previous set build and replaced it with eighth inch hardboard and pegboard. The pegboard has 1 mil translucent plastic behind it and we drilled out holes so the backlights would make the letters CRAVE visible. All the LED lights that were pointed up were reoriented to point down and toward the back wall so that the holes in the pegboard would effectively glow with color.

The most involved part of this was attaching all the sheets of hardboard and pegboard. We went through almost two full boxes of screws. Given the option I would have used 3/16 inch thick materials but that would’ve cost nearly twice as much, which is crazy.

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Beginnings was a five week series at Riverview on the Old Testament, culminating with Easter services highlighting prophesies that point directly at Jesus.

The original design called for many trees/roots, then we talked about sunflowers, then a single tree, then saw Andrew Hunt’s Blue Ridge Origin set and decided we should ask to use the idea.

So, over the course of almost a week we constructed this set. There is a steel stud wall across the full length of the back wall (about 54 feet) with 3mil plastic and polymuslin cloth covering it. Attached to the back of the wall are 25 LED lights and the cross (also made from steel studs covered with plastic and material) is attached at the architectural truss and to the back of the wall.

The gray area and lettering is all projected on our white wall.

The ‘dirt pile’ is actually a structure of wood and chicken-wire with landscaping fabric covering it and 10 cubic feet of peat moss spread over the structure. The leaves are 1.5in Styrofoam that was cut with a jig-saw, painted and then holes were drilled in the ends to put bent PVC pipe into. The PVC was bent then spray-painted.

It may not sound like all that much but it was a long build.

Riverview series on a few of the names of God.

Forty CRT monitors attached to nineteen splitters, attached to seven old computers. Each computer is running the same 7 minute video on a delay of 45 seconds or so. The back wall projection is a static image that changes for each service segment and each song.

The lighting during the music is setup on a 30 second fade from color to color. There are a handful of little Chauvet LED lights behind the monitor structure.

The monitor stand was built level by level as we added each row of monitors.

Riverview’s “Declassified” series which ran in January.

Loosely based film noir look, cityscape gobos on lights pointed at the side and back walls of the auditorium, projected cityscape on the stage wall. One fixture with a G40 incandescent bulb hung from the architectural truss. A desk/typewriter/wire-fan/coat placed on the stage.