Capturing Christmas Stage Design

During all of our “Capturing Christmas” brainstorms, meetings, and dream-sessions there was always one word that kept coming up – warm. We wanted everything associated with “Capturing Christmas” to bring about the warm Christmas memories that you had as a kid and the nostalgia of Christmas we all remember. And, this warm nostalgic theme continued to be communicated through our stage design as well!

When creating a new stage design there are multiple things we consider during our brainstorm sessions. For our Christmas stage, specifically, we wanted to keep the same basic stage design we had and “Christmas-fy” it. We also needed something that would look good behind Ed on camera for campuses and TV.

The final design we ended up with was a mixture of mini winter wonderland tree forests (dormant trees from Allaso Ranch that we spray painted white and built basic stands for), large newspaper snowflakes (also called stars, poinsettias, or flower bows depending on who you ask), and a mixture of different size hanging mason jars to pull in our “Capturing Christmas” album art. All of the stage design elements were built in-house by volunteers using materials we already had on-hand such as newspaper and recycled foam-board.

All of these elements worked together to create a warm nostalgic Christmas feel for our stage that we transformed into multiple unique “looks” for our specific elements through the help of creative lighting. Take a look below at a few of the different ways we used this stage design during our “Capturing Christmas” experiences!