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Projecting Images onto Cyclorama

Wed, 27 May 2009, 11:58 am
jonmul12 posts in thread
I am trying to get some ideas on how I might project images (in lieu of changing backdrops as we have no fly tower) onto a cyclorama for a ballet school concert. The obstacles are - that there is no space behind the cyc to rear project (only 10cm) and I suspect that running a high powered projector from the dress circle bar will mean the girls are dancing through the projected images. Any ideas? Cheers.

There is a new product on

Fri, 5 June 2009, 10:20 pm
There is a new product on the market called "Pandoras box" and it allows you to project on the cyc from steep side angles with a projector each side, it corrects for the distortion like an elaborate keystone adjuster and overlays the two images. This is not a panacea for the situation as you need very powerful projectors to give a reasonable intensity over a huge area like a cyc and you still have to leave a clear distance in front of the cyc to stop shadows. I will be trialling one of these shortly to see how practical it is.It is not cheap, neither are high power projectors.

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