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What is the best material for a home-made back-projection screen?

I’m helping some 14-16 year-old students put together a play, on a very limited budget. I want to back-project pictures using an ordinary computer projector, instead of using scenery.

Any advice on the best material to use for the screen?

Thanks.

The limited brightness of a single projector as a light source may necessitate your using these images only when stage lights are down or very low.
Back projection, through e.g. translucent muslin material, might lose much of the light through scattering, so, instead, fix your projector in front of the screen (above the stage) and make the background behind the screen very dark to contrast.
Glass beaded screens reflect light back in the direction it came from and so images would look bright only in the area behind the projector.
For a wider auditorium, you might be better off using a large sheet of stiff board, painted, uniformly, in several layers of matt white paint. Board can easily be fixed rigidly it so that the entire surface remains at the correct focal length from the projector lens and the image will then be sharp throughout.
The outline shape of this screen could be also cut to a shape that you think might reinforce some shared element in the meanings of the drama(s) being presented. The projector doesn’t have to be mounted horizontally – but could even be set at plus 45 degrees if you wanted as long as you can set up the geometry of the image on the projector and create original computer images with their own angles compensated by minus 45 degrees for projection.
When preparing computer images they might require to have their contrast exaggerated to compensate for background levels of ambient light on stage.
It’s worth making an early test of the back-projection on a dummy ’stage’ before finally deciding the best combination of ideas.
Good luck.