Live visuals are all about projectors, but perhaps part of the reason movie work hasn’t become nearly as see-everywhere as music is that outdoor cinema screen and projectors are not so easy to trans than speakers and narrator. Naturally, the requirement of a really H-Q moving semi is self-explanatory – specially one that can process outdoors.
General Inflatables manufactures inflatable movie screens international. It's China-based factory, and have already made a name for itself by selling a lot of inflatable movie screens for like open-air drive-in and movie fete alfresco screenings. Its productions have typically go at the high-level.
They provide two alternatives. First, there’s a full “home backyard theater kit,” including:
- 9’ x 5’ inflatable movie screens
- Yard stakes and straps for setting it up (sand bags are optional)
- A Sanyo 2300-lumen LCD projector (not a bad model, in fact)
- DVD player
- Audio mixer, complete with A/V cables and adapters, with PA
- LED goose neck light
- Carrying cases
- Air blower with a muffler to keep the noise down (it was quiet from what I could tell, though we were in a loud space)
That’s for the home base user, so I dubious you’d have just as much luck putting together your own component parts – and though the Sanyo projector is nice, you’d otherwise potentially be disappointed with some of what’s here. But here’s the interesting bit: you can get just the screen. And it’s ridiculously small and light; the whole 9’ screen packs into a tiny case you could pop into your backpack and weighs just eight pounds.
Even the full package I think is potentially good news for VJs, even indirectly – it’s just the kind of commoditization we’ve been waiting for for projection setups. Cheap + turn-key could mean more venues preparing for projection and working for visualists, and this is just one example.
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