Draper StageScreen at Canadian Country Music Awards

Draper Inc.'s new StageScreen was used for onstage projection during the Canadian Country Music Awards, which took place September 13 at Vancouver's GM Place.

Toronto's Midnite Hour Productions provided the StageScreen and other equipment for the show. Although the StageScreen was just introduced during InfoComm 2009, the new product came just in time for this show.

"We already own 12' x 21' and 18' x 32' lace and grommet surfaces that require a full truss-frame," according to Marty Anderson, of Midnite Hour, adding those screens wouldn't have looked right in the televised production. "And, because of weight, [they would have] required motors. [All that] kind of kills the party."

Midnite Hour's Louis Racine says, "The StageScreen's packaging and modularity allows us to buy surfaces as needed, while re-using the truss elements. Now Midnite Hour is planning on changing all its projection screens to the StageScreen."

Draper's proprietary screen attachment system works without snaps; in less than 10 minutes, two people can have a 17' x 20' screen fully assembled and ready to fly or attach to legs, the company says.

Draper will exhibit at the LDI Show in Orlando, November 20-22, at Booth #1052/