Acoustics	Audio	Lighting	Video	Facility Design

Goals & Objectives
In this day and age video projection systems in a church are no longer a luxury. We each live our lives in a very visual world.

• The system should complement the architecture of the sanctuary.

• The system should be a fixed installation and not portable.

• The viewing angles to the screens should be natural, comfortable and unobstructed.

• The projected images should be bright enough to view with the typical congregational and platform lighting turned on (and not dimmed).

Considerations

• The projection system should provide an enhancement to the worship service rather than a distraction.

• There is rarely an excuse for any church in new construction to not use rear projection.

• Projection screens only reflect or allow light to pass through. They do not produce light.

• Direct and Reflected sounds can be beneficial or detrimental to good intelligibility, depending on their arrival time and amplitude.

• ANSI Lumens alone will not tell you how bright the image will be on a screen.

• In projection there is no substitution for ANSI Lumens. The higher the ANSI Lumens the brighter the image on the screen.

• When it comes to windows allowing natural light to fall on a projection screen - Remember, God always wins.