Need to make one for occasional use- but wondering what type of material to use...
Was thinking about some good quality cotton fabric stretched in a wooden frame.
Exact dimmenions not important, but it will be about 8 x 6 feet (4:3 aspect ratio)
Regards, Tim..
I don't know the exact answer to your question, but I can point you to a good place to start...
At 6x8 feet, I can imagine it will be difficult to keep the material from flapping about, resulting in image distortion. Is rear projection necessary? Front projection onto a sheet of painted MDF is cheap and easy.
The OP must certainly be lucky to have the depth to support rear-projection.
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Start smoking and use the inner tissue paper liner that has a layer of foil bonded to it. With effort you will be able to separate the two. When you have several thousand of these you can glue them together to make a large screen.
Thanks for the link Ron..
Rear projection is a requirement, as I already have a 'sister' rear projection screen and wish to construct another. The first one however is a theatre grade frosted polyurathane type of material which is velcro'd to a steel frame. (read mega ££££'s)
The 2nd screen i wish to construct could easily be made to look near enough identical, certainly from the audiences point of view and the low light conditions it will be used in.
The brief is really to make a 2nd screen of simialr size to the first which will be used the other side of a DJ rig (symetrical)
Suspending a projector FOH is not possible.
Tim..
Depending on the size you might be able to use a plain white shower curtain. It's technically possible to join them (using 2" wide clear tape - the waterproof sort sticks well) as the edges are cut nice and straight.
Chris
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