Warming things up a bit
After the somewhat harsh look and sound that we started the month of December with, I wanted to end the month with a warm, rich feeling in the room. I also wanted to maintain the idea of simple and nothing that spoke of traditional Christmas decor.
We have often used candles in our stage design, but I wanted to take it to another level. Our candle setup had been a bunch of simple, black tables from IKEA scattered around stage with random height candles arranged on them. I wanted something that took the use of candles higher in the room. I started by doing a google search for “candle chandeliers”. That is where I found the basic idea of a circle with candles sitting on it. Translating this to a large scale space was the next step.
When thinking about material, I decided to use 4X8 sheets of 3/4” MDF. I wanted the diameter of the largest level to be 8’ so I decided each level would be composed of 4 half circles with the seams offset then glued and screwed together. I decided to use L shaped screw hooks. Screwed in between the sheets, these would then sit on the chain links and hold up each level.
I originally wanted chain motors to raise and lower the chandeliers to light them. In the end, I did not want to spend the money for the motors. We just hung them with rope. They were too heavy to raise and lower so we hung the highest one as high as we could and still light the top candles from our highest ladder. Having to hang them lower put them in the same context as the people on stage which really made their scale look very large.
Although the scale was large, the base materials maintained the simple feel that we were going for. 300+ candles is simple right?
I love this idea. I’m probably going to steal it and tweak it some in our youth facility for our leadership conference we have early summer. The theme is influence and to suggest influence the visual idea is a bare light bulb. Thanks for sharing your creative inspiration.
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I love this idea. I’m probably going to steal it and tweak it some in our youth facility for our leadership conference we have early summer. The theme is influence and to suggest influence the visual idea is a bare light bulb. Thanks for sharing your creative inspiration.
[...] Get tons of pictures and better details at Jason Widney’s website. [...]