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Outdoor cinema screenings are large-hearted report the summer months, but if you’ve not managed to make tickets to the open-air movie night in your neighbourhood park, why not host one in your own backyard? It doesn’t have to be expensive- specially if you can borrow a projector from a pal- and best of all, you’ll get to choose what movie to watch. Right, person pass the popcorn!
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Step 1. Find the right place
Whether you’re setting up your outdoor cinema at the bottom of the garden or on a balcony or roof terrace, make sure you have a piece of ground that’s dry and sheltered from high winds. You could use fairy brightness to embellish the space, but make sure you turn them off before you start the movie so they don’t affect the picture. Also try to avoid pitching up in a place where streetlights or bright indoor daylights might indicate against the screen.
To make the space extra special for your audience, spruce it up with paint beforehand. This fencing is painted in Dusky Gem, PS24. 67 for 2.5 ltrs, Cuprinol, and the table is made from wooden pallets painted in Lavender, Wild Thyme and Fresh Rosemary, again, all PS24. 67 for 2.5 ltrs.
Stair 2. Invest in a projector
It used to be the case that decent projectors were tremendously expensive and could only be used in blackout situations, something hard to achieve in a living room, let alone in your garden. Nonetheless, the most recent developments simulates are bright enough to use with the lightings on, and have plummeted in price. They’re also quieter and more compact, so you needn’t worry that an vexing whirr will spoil any dramatic moments.
When you’re shopping for a projector for your outdoor cinema, you’ll understand each one has a lumen measurement. More lumens make it easier to see the projected image in bright conditions. In a garden after dark, we recommend at the least 3000 lumens for a movie-theatre experience.
Stair 3. Connect a video source
This could be a DVD or Blu Ray player, a laptop or a streaming machine such as an Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV box, which you’ll need to connect to your projector through its HDMI port.
If you want great voice, you can connect a loudspeaker through your projector’s 3.5 mm jack, or look for a model with Bluetooth. Go for the latter and you’ll be able to connect wirelessly to a Bluetooth soundbar or talker, and threw more bang into your blockbuster. Or if it’s late and you’re watching alone, you can connect a pair of Bluetooth headphones so you won’t disturb the neighbours.
Step 4. Create your cinema screen
The easiest way to do this is to peg a white sheet to your launder pipeline. You may want to weigh it down at the bottom so that it doesn’t move around in the breeze.
You could also stir your own screen by sewing together pieces of blackout lining, which you can buy by the metre. Tack durations of timber to the top and bottom and affix bolt hooks to the top, then hang it over a row of fingernails on a wall or garden fence.
If money is no object, you could hire or buy an inflatable screen. Inflatable Products sells these, with rates starting from PS1, 345 for a 2m x 4m screen.
Stair 5. Make sure your guests are cozy 
If the best spot is on the lawn, set a groundsheet on the grass be protected from any moisture or bottom-troubling boulders and stones, then stratum blankets, cushions and beanbags to up the comfort ingredient. You could shape your pop-up outdoor cinema more sophisticated by throwing down a few carpets, and setting out chairs, terraces or even hammocks to loosen on.
Just make sure everyone has a good idea, and keep a few cases blankets aside or perhaps light a fire cavity in case it gets colder later on.
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Step 6. Prepare a feast 
This could be as easy as pouring popcorn into bowls, and filling a container with frost and stocking with bottled liquors, so all you have to do is reach down for a refill. For something more substantial, light up the barbecue or invest in an outdoor oven and host a pizza party.
You could also have a go at constructing your own lemonade. Simply mix the zest and juice from 6 lemons and 2 limes with 200 g of caster sugar, and 1.5 ltrs of just-boiled water. Leave the concoction to cool and then chill it in the refrigerator. We enjoy this trick of using fairy cake occurrences to identify everyone’s liquors while keeping insects at bay.
Whatever you decide to serve, don’t forget to light some citronella candles to ward off annoying mossies.
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