Dedication service modifications

On Friday, Paul was asked by the youth pastor of ORBC to help set up a temporary overflow system for this Sunday. They’re expecting possibly up to 400 people in attendance at the 10:30 AM service, and they wanted to be prepared to send people to the fellowship hall to watch the service on a closed-circuit system if necessary. The church purchased a 3500 lumen Dell DLP projector, so we set that up and fired it at a blank wall in the fellowship hall. There wasn’t time to permanently install the motorized screen that’s intended for that room, so we settled for a light beige wall that reflected pretty well. The video signal was transported from the Canon XHA1 in the auditorium via a component > cat5 extender box to the projector. The component extender is passive, so the signal loss was very noticeable. Since it was so late in the weekend, we didn’t have another option, so we recruited some teenagers on Sunday morning to tape black trash bags over the windows to block out any excess light. Doing this made the brightness acceptable.

We also utilized a second camera, a Sony FX1. This was not connected into the feed to the fellowship hall, but was used during the sermon and a special testimony time at the end of the service. The choir stayed on the platform during the service to keep extra seats available in the pews. Since there is a projector firing at the rear wall of the auditorium, we had a camera operator follow the preacher with the Sony. That image was then projected onto the rear wall so the choir would be able to see him from the front and not just the back.

At the end of the service, some church members came to the platform holding cardboard signs with personal testimony written on them. We zoomed in on these individuals and followed them on the stage as well so that everyone in the auditorium could be sure to read what was written. The image was projected onto all three screens in this case.

The service went very well with no noticeable hiccups. We ended up not needing the overflow room since everyone fit into the auditorium, but it was good to be prepared just in case.