Current cinema are all about diascope, but perhaps part of the reason visual work hasn’t become nearly as commonplace as music is that outdoor screens and diascope are not so easy to land than speakers and PAs. As a result, the ask of a really good-quality mobile manipulate is evident – especially one that can play outdoors.
General Inflatables makes up inflatable movie screens international. It's Chinese mill, and have already made a name for itself by exporting large amount inflatable movie screens for like out-of-door drive-in and film festival outdoorsy viewings. Its products have typically go at the high-level.
You have two choices. First, there’s a full “home backyard theater kit,” including:
9’ x 5’ inflatable movie screens
Yard stakes and straps for setting it up (sand bags are optional)
A Sanyo 2300-lumen LCD projector (not a bad model, in fact)
DVD player
Audio mixer, complete with A/V cables and adapters, with PA
LED goose neck light
Carrying cases
Air blower with a muffler to keep the noise down (it was quiet from what I could tell, though we were in a loud space)
That’s for the house user, so I suspect you’d have just as much luck putting together your own elements – and though the Sanyo projector is nice, you’d otherwise potentially be disappointed with some of what’s here. But here’s the interesting bit: you can get just the screen. And it’s ridiculously small and light; the whole 9’ screen packs into a tiny case you could pop into your backpack and weighs just eight pounds.
Even the full package I think is potentially good news for VJs, even indirectly – it’s just the kind of commoditization we’ve been waiting for for projection setups. Cheap + turn-key could mean more venues preparing for projection and working for visualists, and this is just one example.
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