Tech question regarding projecting an image from a laptop directly onto a screen.

[jmowreader]

8. Let me see if I have what you want to do down

You're working with a theater group. You want the backdrop of the stage to be a projected image from your computer.

If we're talking about a typical community theater, high school auditorium or what have you...I don't think this is going to work. You don't have nearly enough room between the back of the screen and the back wall of the stage enclosure for the light from the projector to cover the whole screen. And then there's the monetary angle...you'll need a very powerful projector - think "movie theater projector like Barco or Christie" - to get the backdrop bright enough to be believable, and rear projection screen material is unbelievably expensive even before Trump slapped a 35-percent tariff on it. Front projection won't work here because of all the stage lighting you're using.

Now...what you COULD do, which would work, is to design a window into your constructed backdrop and put a big television behind it.