It's not really a cyc. Just a painted wall in a church fellowship hall. There's a permanently mounted screen right in the middle of it.
There was a plan to build this huge, elaborate fake stained glass wall behind the stage. It was going to be an LED backlit acrylic wall with vinyl graphics applied that looked like stained glass. When the price came back at 160k they decided to scrap that idea.
I floated that we could put up cyc lights to provide color and then project gobos from the front in generic breakup patterns and it would cost a fraction of what they were about to spend. I showed them some pics of stuff I've done in the past. They liked it, we are moving forward with that idea.
Now comes the issue. The wall is about 18 feet where I get to mount the lights. Full saturation to the floor would be great, buyt unltimately not neccessary since the band will cover the bottom 6-ish feet of the wall. So I'd like maybe 10-12 feet of good saturated color. Now if I went with a proper cyc light, I could easily acheive this, but I can't help but feel that I'd be way overspending on capability on for a light that only needs to wash about 12 feet of wall. There are many of the single row "batten" lights out there that I've succesfully used on shorter walls, but I'm worried they wouldn't have enough oomph for 12+ feet and to compete with light spill from the front.
What are your thoughts?
The new Chauvet Ovation Cyc3 looks great and its much cheaper than the other Ovation Batten they have. At least the price on B&H is cheaper $2000 vs $3170.
I should also mention that these lights will be in full view of the audience, so I have to keep that in mind too. They'll be at the ceiling but there's just no way I can build a box around it and hide it in any real easy way.
