Gobo/projected Backgrounds

[Peter Blake]

I'm planning a fitness shoot; the client wants some kind of Red Bull branding in the pictures….thinking about making a background based on the can design….would be front projected, lighting on the model either a gridded soft box or beauty dish. had an idea to take an empty RB can, cut off top and base, flatten it, photograph it on 35mm slide film, put the resulting positive in a projector, and hey presto? am thinking the background needs to be fairly dark compared to the subject, and maybe quite defocused. just so it doesn't detract and becomes an additional element in the shot.

going to be shot indoors in my small studio, not a huge amount of space to play with, maybe backdrop-model 15 feet and another 10 feet to the camera.

what say ye?

 

[Hamish Gill]

I'd look to project something a little more simple ... You don't need those ingredients projected!

If you are limited to a slide projector ...
Have you seen the business cards that Dan K made for Bellamy? He took a photo of a computer screen with Bellamy's details in on it...
You could do that, design the graphic on the computer, photograph the screen, then project that!?
Else, obviously a normal projector would remove a layer of complication?

 

[Paul Lange]

I'm wondering if the Red Bull design would detract too much from the model. The design was made to stand out and putting it second place may introduce some issues. Is there anything that doesn't have as much impact that you could use, maybe something less direct like projecting some wings on the the back drop? That was just an idea off the cuff but hopefully it give you the general jist of what I am thinking.