Fellowship Church

Frisco CAMPUS

FRISCO, TX

January 2020

“This is going to be something new for us”, Dr. Ed Young said from the stage of Fellowship Church’s new space in Frisco, TX, speaking to a standing-room-only auditorium. “This is going to be a co-main location for Fellowship: Grapevine and this campus“

Fellowship purchased what used to be a Gander Mountain building in December 2018. Shortly afterward, Fellowship’s Media Pastor/Director, Dave Clark reached out to Clark for audio, lighting & video solutions. While Fellowship has large media & creative teams, they still rely heavily on a volunteer production crew, so the ergonomics of the system were a big priority.

The heart of Fellowship Frisco’s video broadcast system is an SDI router from AJA.
A 2M/E Ross Carbonite Black panel and Carbonite Ultra engine switch content to the center LED wall, the side projector IMAG screens, along with the other broadcast destinations. The Carbonite gives Fellowship’s media team all the effects and keyers they need to keep their worship services exciting, engaging and innovative: a high-end production system, but easily operated by volunteers.

Clark selected Flanders Scientific for color-critical monitoring in the control suite, and  Clear-Com’s HelixNet keeps local and remote production teams in constant communication - a key element when producers are keeping multiple campuses together. 

Fellowship furnished (2) Sony HXC-D70K cameras with Canon lenses for the local message capture. Message ingest/playout from a Living As One server, a cloud-based multi-stream timeslip product that gives Fellowship’s team the flexibility to change which campus they’ll broadcast from Sunday to Sunday. Local graphics & video playout from Apple iMacs running ProPresenter. 

A pair of DiGiCo SD12s, a favorite of Fellowship's A1 Kevin Bonnot, sit at FOH & Monitor World; both running a SoundGrid server. Wireless audio (Shure ULXD & PSM900) allows Fellowship’s vocalists & band to stay virtually cable-free on stage. 

Originally a retail space, the room has low ceilings for a performance venue. So Clark’s designers chose a point-source solution from d&b Audiotechnik for the house PA: (12) 24S loudspeakers, with (9) 8S boxes for front fills. Clark designers specified d&b’s 21S subwoofer in (9) cavities under the stage for low end. For room acoustics, Tom Donahue, Clark’s Senior Acoustician, specified a proprietary treatment on the three house walls, around the ductwork in the ceiling, and on the walls backstage.

To extend the experience outside the auditorium, Clark also designed & installed PA in the common gathering areas around the building as well as on the building exterior. A small rolling rack allows the Fellowship team to quickly add a wireless mic outside quickly turning any space into a performance area. 

For control, Clark’s in-house Crestron designer & programmer developed a mobile UI to allow for on-the-go touch panel access from a tablet or smartphone. 

Fellowship’s Lighting Designer, Daniel Page wanted a system that kept continuity with their main campus, provided broadcast level key lighting and friendly operation for their team of volunteers. Clark’s Creative Director, Paul Green specified MA onPC, a budget-friendly control option using the same software the Fellowship team was already familiar with at their Grapevine location. 

The design includes: (18) Chauvet COLORdash Batten-Quad 12 mounted vertically on stage, (6) Rogue R2 Washes, (18) COLORado 1-TRI Tours and (6) Maverick MK1 Spots. Key light is an array of (34) Chauvet Ovation E-260CW with various lenses. 

Clark designed a sACN network backbone for all lighting communication in the facility built on Pathway Connectivity gateways. In addition to MA onPC control, Pathway Vignette wall stations are located through the main auditorium and the FC Kids’ spaces, allowing an easy way to recall presets in the spaces.

When Pastor Ed Young isn’t live on stage in Frisco, a 23’ x 13’ Road Ready 3.9mm LED wall from Coleder serves as the centerpiece of the message segment. A pair of 8500 lumen Panasonic laser source IMAG projectors hang on either side of the wall. Bob Nahrdstadt, Senior Video Engineer at Clark, color-calibrated all of the displays so color rendering across all three is precise. 

Displays from NEC & Sony supplied stage prompter, control room and backstage monitoring. A Crestron control system provides centralized control of all displays, projectors, power sequencing, and environmental audio throughout the entire campus.