VANCOUVER, BC — Midnite Hour Productions provided a Draper StageScreen as the backdrop for the 2009 Fan’s Choice Award presentation from the Canadian Country Music Association at the CCMA’s annual awards ceremony held at General Motors Place.
The StageScreen had only been introduced a few months earlier, and Midnite Hour didn’t get theirs until shortly before the show, but Midnite Hour president Marty Anderson didn’t hesitate to use it for the production.
“We already own 12-foot-by-21-foot and 18-foot-by-32-foot lace and grommet surfaces that require a full truss frame,” Anderson said, but he noted that those screens wouldn’t have looked right for the televised production. Their weight, he added, would have made motors necessary, and noted that all that “kind of kills the party.”
Along with its looks, the Draper StageScreen is designed with a modularity that allows it to be shipped in standard-sized road cases, then assembled on site. That worked as a plus for Midnite Hour’s Louis Racine.
“The StageScreen’s packaging and modularity allows us to buy surfaces as needed, while re-using the truss elements,” Racine said, of the modular truss segments that get assembled end-to-end, without folding or snaps. This allows two people to set up a 17-foot-by-20-foot screen in about 10 minutes or so. “Midnite Hour is planning on changing all its projection screens to the StageScreen,” Racine said.
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