Enhancement: Marquee Borders and Lights

[Bboy486]

There is an option currently to set a background image. But I was thinking it might be better to use an image between the poster and the blurred background to replicate traditional poster marquees.

Option #1 - Faux Lights Having worked in a movie theatre as a kid (which is why I am so passionate about this project) the movie posters used to have lights or backlight to make them pop (ex https://media.techeblog.com/images/movie_marquee.jpg). It would be cool to use a template to apply behind the poster (but in front of background image) to replicate this look. Ex -

Option #2 - Marquee for Coming Soon/Now Playing Use a graphic like the one below to show old-style graphic to replicate marquees in the 1920/the 40s http://jeffreystrausser.com/NowShowing.jpg

Option #3 - Combine both into one. If you combine with #1 then it could have an area for the text within the frame: https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/1stdibs/120211/GustavoOlivieri/2/IMG_7885.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8c/e3/41/8ce341258d66ea32c0218c3b286e1323.jpg

More traditional (not free) https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/empty-isolated-cinema-poster-panel-gm1217830711-355636834?utm_source=pixabay&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=SRP_image_sponsored&referrer_url=https%3A//pixabay.com/images/search/movie%2520posters/&utm_term=movie%20posters

Rough and Quick Proof of Concept

[ZeroCoolGOS]

I like the concepts.

I think that if it can be done physically with the lights, that would be cool. I have yet to build my physical version of the poster (Its on my to do list for this spring/summer). There are a few other "enhancements" that we could tie into the Raspberry Pi for some physical controls of devices and such. But that might need to be a separate module in a future version.

That being said, it should be doable to add the "Now Playing"/"Coming Soon" images. Just need to find a good Hi(ish) Res. image of both.

When you worked in the theater, did the lights around the poster stay static or did they chase around the poster?

If they chased we could create a gif to loop around the poster.

We also need a "full screen" option to not have any boarder or background and take up the full screen if we want.

This is why I also love this project so much goodness already here and so much potential and ideas to make it even better.

[Bboy486]

I was thinking this would be just images and the lights can be animated gif. I am going to use a pico projector and try to project it on the wall so there is no need for a tablet or larger display (like a magic mirror).

There were two versions in the theater. One was the modern backlit version I shared and the other was the marquee with the lights around the poster. I dont recall if the lights moved, I assumed they did though.

[MattsShack]

This is something that may be considered in the future, however right now there are other features / code that have priority. I like the ideas, please keep them coming.

[ZeroCoolGOS]

@MattsShack

Would it be possible for us to get a list of features/code that has priority so we can see what you have in mind coming soon? :)

If there is any way we can help please let us know.