alonewiththemoon | Jul. 18th, 2006

I am wondering where one might rent backdrops, free standing backdrops/backgrounds/whatever, preferably about 8 ft tall and about 20ish ft wide (or two of them 10 ft wide). I've been googling around a bit for info, but if anybody has any experience/knowledge about this kind of thing, I'd be thrilled to hear about it. I also wonder how difficult it might be to create such a backdrop. The fabric part would be easy, and run about $50, I find after some fabric surfing, but the frame would be the tricky thing, especially since I'd want to be carting the thing around. The fabric would have to be heavy enough not to be sheer, so the frame would have to be somewhat sturdy. So renting *might* be easier, depending on cost and running around time.

This is of course related to the gothic hafli in October--I am now thinking that a VFW or American Legion wouldn't be such a bad thing if I had a way of creating a nice backdrop for the stage area. In particular I am thinking of the Dilboy, which is why the backdrop would have to be free-standing. Most of them won't let you put nails in the walls for some reason anyway.

If I were wealthier than I am I would purchase something awesome from this backdrop store. Like this one perhaps, or this one, or oh hell yeah this one. It would still leave the frame problem, though.