New Set Design
As I am sure you have noticed, we recently changed the set on the stage. I just want to fill you in on some of the how and the why about this set.
This set design was driven by several different factors. One of these factors was the Drive Conference that is being held at North Point Community Church the end of March. We needed a set that could easily be converted into the grid like structure that was needed for the Drive Conference. Because we want to keep the stage looking very similar to North Point’s stage, we mimicked the pipe grid structure that you can see. Secondly, we decided to theme the set little more than usual. The series that Andy and Jeff are currently doing, Life Apps, was very easy to play off of with the “App” icon shape. It would have been easy to just cut out and put up a lot of rounded off squares, but that would have been boring. Instead we decided to do a radiating pattern of different sized squares. This gives the set a little more depth and dimension. The white “app” pieces are cut out of a frosted acrylic plastic and hung with a light duty decorative chain.
The last part of the design though was that we wanted something simple. We have had several very complicated, multi-textrural sets recently and we felt like it was time for a break. It is refreshing every now and then to sort of cleanse the pallet. We wanted a set that was relatively simple and looked very clean on stage. I feel like this one does that.
Here are a couple quick facts about the set:
There are 22 uniquely sized squares used to create the radiating pattern
We used a little over 400 feet of light duty chain to hang the squares
There are a total of 25 LED’s lighting fixtures lighting the squares
It took a total of 243 labor hours to install this set
Is the mock-up done in Google SketchUp?