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Most people have the basics of throwing a movie night down: you get a movie, you get snacks, you get comfortable, and boom, you’re done. When it comes to throwing a movie party in the backyard, however, things get a little trickier. Read on as we show you how to do it stress free.

大多数人都有丢下电影之夜的基本知识：看电影，吃零食，舒适，繁荣就完成了。但是，当涉及到在后院举行电影派对时，事情会变得有些棘手。请继续阅读，我们会向您展示如何做到无压力。

Sure, you can watch your movie indoors. There will be no bugs, no waiting for dusk, and likely zero prep work, but there also won’t be that magic of projector light, the glow of the screen against the twilight sky, or the sheer excitement kids (and adults alike for that matter) get when watching a movie outside in the fresh air.

当然，您可以在室内观看电影。不会有虫子，没有等待黄昏，也没有可能进行零准备工作，但也不会有投影仪灯光的魔力，暮光之城的屏幕发光或纯粹的兴奋孩子们(大人都喜欢问题)在新鲜空气中看电影时得到。

That said, hosting an outdoor movie night is significantly more challenging (at least the first time you do so) than simply popping in a DVD for the kids and leaving them in the living room. Further, there’s a bit more that goes into a successful movie night than your average article implies. As veterans of backyard movie madness, we’re more than happy to walk you through the details big and small to help ensure you have the perfect movie night experience.

也就是说，举办一场户外电影之夜(至少是第一次这样做)要比仅仅为孩子们弹出DVD并留在客厅里更具挑战性。此外，成功的电影之夜还有比您的平均文章所暗示的要多的东西。作为后院电影疯狂的退伍军人，我们非常乐意向您介绍各种细节，以确保您拥有完美的电影之夜体验。

投影机 (The Projector)

You could host a movie night outside by hauling a big screen HDTV out the back door and setting it up on the patio, but we’ll be frank with you: it simply doesn’t have the same magic feeling. Sure it’s novel and a nice change of pace (and the kids might be entertained by the new viewing arrangement) but to really capture the essence of backyard movie magic, to reclaim the spirit of the drive-in movie theater and the open air, you need that bright-shining-point-of-light-in-the-darkness effect that only a project can provide.

您可以通过从后门拉大屏幕高清电视并将其安装在露台上来在外面举办电影之夜，但是我们会坦率地说：这简直就是不一样的魔幻感觉。当然，它是新颖的，而且步调也很好(新的观看安排可能会让孩子们开心)，但要真正抓住后院电影魔术的精髓，重拾露天电影院和露天的精神，需要只有项目才能提供的那种在黑暗中明亮发光的效果。

Although projectors are certainly pricey investments, there’s good news: you don’t need a top of the line projector for your backyard movie night. Although you can spend $1000+ on a projector (or haul your nice indoor projector from your movie room outside) you don’t need to spend that much. You can grab a smaller, cheaper one on Amazon, or–if you’re really thrifty–find an old one on Craigslist. (Spring is a good time to search for used models, as many offices and schools are clearing theirs out.)

尽管放映机无疑是一笔昂贵的投资，但有一个好消息：您无需在后院电影之夜使用顶级的放映机。尽管您可以花1000美元以上购买一台投影机(或从外面的电影室拖曳漂亮的室内投影机)，但您并不需要花费那么多。您可以在亚马逊上买到一个更小，更便宜的产品，或者，如果您真的很节俭，可以在Craigslist上找到一个旧的产品。 (Spring是寻找二手模型的好时机，因为许多办公室和学校都在清理它们。)

When considering a projector for use in the backyard, you should consider the following factors.

考虑在后院使用投影机时，应考虑以下因素。

流明 (Lumens)

The lumen rating of a projector is indicative of how much light is can output. The more light a projector can put out, the sooner you can start your movie, and the better it can cut through ambient light (like light from street lamps, light from the tiki torches on your patio, etc.)

投影仪的流明等级指示可以输出多少光。投影机发出的光越多，您越早开始播放电影，越能穿透周围的光(例如路灯发出的光，露台上的提基火炬发出的光等)。

At minimum, you want at least 2,000 lumens. Every step up from there is a huge boost and as you creep closer to 3,000+ lumens you really increase the power of the projector and it becomes possible to start the movie shortly after sunset instead of waiting another 30-40 minutes for it to get much darker.

至少需要至少2000流明。从那里迈出的每一步都有巨大的提升，并且当您逐渐接近3,000+流明时，您确实增加了投影机的功能，并且有可能在日落之后不久开始播放电影，而无需等待30-40分钟来获得更多更暗。

多种输入 (Diverse Inputs)

It’s no fun if the thing you want to plug into the project can’t be plugged into the projector because it lacks the correct ports. You can always correct for those kind of problems by hooking up a full blown audio-visual receiver to the setup but that adds expense, bulk, and complexity.

如果您要插入项目的东西由于缺少正确的端口而无法插入投影机，这没什么好玩的。您始终可以通过将功能完备的视听接收机连接到设备上来纠正此类问题，但这会增加费用，体积和复杂性。

It’s oft overlooked, but when you’re looking for a project make sure it has the kind of connection input on it that works with the device you want to use (e.g. your laptop, a Blu-ray player, etc.). If they don’t match (say, a new laptop with HDMI and your old projector with VGA), make sure you get an adapter so everything can fit together.

它经常被忽略，但是当您寻找项目时，请确保其上具有与您要使用的设备(例如，笔记本电脑，蓝光播放器等)兼容的连接输入。如果它们不匹配(例如，一台带有HDMI的新笔记本电脑和一台带VGA的旧投影仪)，请确保您有一个适配器，以便所有部件都能放在一起。

梯形失真校正和镜头移位 (Keystone and Lens Shift)

Lower-end projectors have electronic keystoning (you can adjust the image thrown by the projector to make up for the angle of the projector in relationship to the screen) and more expensive cinema-style projectors have physical controls which allow you to shift the actual lens to correct for image distortion.

低端投影仪具有电子梯形失真(您可以调整投影仪投射的图像以补偿投影仪相对于屏幕的角度)，而价格更高的电影院式投影仪具有物理控件，可让您移动实际镜头校正图像失真。

These features are very important for outdoor projection as you’ll likely be putting the projector on a card table or the like wherever you can fit in your outdoor setup and you’ll need to immediately and on the fly adjust the image to fit the projection surface.

这些功能对于室外投影非常重要，因为您可能会将投影机放在户外安装中适合的任何地方，并且需要立即快速调整图像以适合投影表面。

最大尺寸和投掷距离 (Maximum Size & Throw Distance)

One of the most fun aspects of outdoor movie viewing is that you can go big without much expense. An HDTV with a 144″ diagonal could cost you $100,000 but a projection setup at the same size and resolution could run you less than a $1000.

户外电影观看中最有趣的方面之一就是您可以花很多钱就可以变大。带有144英寸对角线的HDTV可能要花费您$ 100,000，但以相同尺寸和分辨率进行投影设置可能要花费不到$ 1000。

The first consideration, and one to keep in mind when making or buying a screen, is how big of an image your projector and project and how far away it needs to be to accomplish that. The specifics of those factors (maximum screen size and the required “throw distance”) are a function of the particular model and how it’s bulb and lens are arranged. To that end, we recommend studying your space and then consulting the manufacturer specifications. If you want to project a 200″ image, for example, but the projector you plan on using needs 30 feet between the projector and the screen to accomplish that, then you’d better make sure you’ve got the backyard that will house such an arrangement.

首先要考虑的问题是制作或购买屏幕时要牢记的一点，即投影机和投影机要投影多大的图像以及完成该操作需要多远。这些因素的细节(最大屏幕尺寸和所需的“投射距离”)取决于特定型号以及灯泡和镜头的布置方式。为此，我们建议您研究您的空间，然后咨询制造商规格。例如，如果您要投影200英寸的图像，但是您计划使用的投影仪需要在投影仪和屏幕之间30英尺的距离才能完成此操作，那么最好确保您拥有可容纳此类投影仪的后院一项安排。

Unlike indoor installations, it’s pretty easy to move the pieces of an outdoor projection setup around (we’ve adjusted the spacing of our projector and screen by just picking them up and scooting them around more than a few times), but it’s still handy to use a calculator to figure things out ahead of time. To that end, we recommend the throw distance calculator over at Projector Central. You can see, in the screenshot above, how we used it to calculate the optimum distance to get the maximum size. You can also use the calculator to figure out the perfect spacing for the size screen you’ll be using.

与室内安装不同，很容易移动室外投影设置的各个部分(我们已经将投影机和屏幕的间距进行了调整，只需捡起它们并在其周围进行多次滑动即可)，但仍然很方便使用计算器提前解决问题。为此，我们建议在Projector Central投影距离计算器。您可以在上面的屏幕截图中看到我们如何使用它来计算最佳距离以获得最大尺寸。您也可以使用计算器找出将要使用的尺寸屏幕的理想间距。

解析度 (Resolution)

Most people would expect to see resolution at the top of the list–after all, resolution is super important to picture quality, right? The reality is that resolution isn’t as important as you think. In your house? Sure. On an HDTV you’re sitting relatively close to? Sure. But in these cases, you’re using your projector or HDTV under optimum conditions, where the quality of the image is going to attract close scrutiny.

大多数人希望将分辨率放在列表的首位，毕竟分辨率对于图像质量至关重要。现实情况是，分辨率并不像您想象的那么重要。在你的房子？当然。在高清电视上，您所坐的位置相对较近？当然。但是在这些情况下，您是在最佳条件下使用投影机或HDTV，在这种情况下，图像质量将受到严格审查。

During a backyard movie night, however, you aren’t viewing a movie under optimum viewing conditions. You’re viewing the movie under optimum fun conditions. The last light of sunset will impart a haze. There will be ambient light of a greater or lesser degree that may or may not pollute the purity of the projected image. The screen might have wrinkles in it. There might be kids running around casting shadows everywhere.

但是，在后院电影之夜，您无法在最佳观看条件下观看电影。您正在最佳娱乐条件下观看电影。夕阳的最后一缕会散发出薄雾。将存在或多或少程度的环境光，该环境光可能会或可能不会污染投影图像的纯度。屏幕上可能有皱纹。可能到处都有孩子到处乱投阴影。

Under those kind of conditions, it matters more than the image is bright and crisp (because you have lots of lumens and have adjusted the focus/keystone/shift correctly) than it is the highest resolution available.

在这种情况下，重要的是图像的亮度和清晰度(因为您有很多流明并且已正确调整了焦点/梯形失真/偏移)，而不是最高分辨率。

If you have a 1080p projector with good light output then by all means use it. But don’t write off a business-class projector that only has VGA or XVGA resolution just because it isn’t capable of “HD” output. Even a business projector is still capable of outputting at a higher rate than old broadcast TV and DVDs and it still looks nice.

如果您的1080p投影机具有良好的光输出，则一定要使用它。但是不要因为没有“高清”输出能力而只注销具有VGA或XVGA分辨率的商务级投影仪。即使是商务投影仪，仍然能够以比旧的广播电视和DVD高的速率输出，并且看起来仍然不错。

长宽比 (Aspect Ratio)

Again, like resolution, aspect ratio is something to consider but not mission critical. Ideally, your projector will output at a ratio of 16:9, which is the widescreen format favored by the vast majority of movie releases. This way, your output matches up perfectly with a 16:9 screen and there is no light bleed or masking required.

同样，像分辨率一样，长宽比是要考虑的，但不是关键任务。理想情况下，投影机将以16：9的比例输出，这是绝大多数电影发行都喜欢的宽屏格式。这样，您的输出就可以与16：9屏幕完美匹配，并且不需要漏光或遮罩。

Your cinema-class projector will do this, no questions asked, because that’s what it was build to do: show movies. Your business class projector likely will not do native wide screen projection but it will provide a digital mask for 16:9 projection. The trade off is that you’ll have “light bleed” at the top and the bottom of the screen because the business-class projector will mask the area simply by projecting black and not actually physically masking the space off.

毫无疑问，您的电影级投影机将执行此操作，因为这就是它的构建目的：显示电影。您的商务舱投影仪可能不会进行原生的宽屏投影，但会为16：9投影提供数字遮罩。权衡取舍的是，您将在屏幕的顶部和底部出现“光斑”，因为商务级投影仪将仅通过投射黑色来遮盖该区域，而实际上并未实际遮盖该空间。

While that’s less than ideal, it’s also not a deal breaker. Most people won’t even notice the light bleed, especially if you’re using a widescreen sized screen and the light bleed just falls into the darkness behind the screen.

尽管这不理想，但这也不是交易突破。大多数人甚至都不会注意到光的渗出，特别是如果您使用的是宽屏尺寸的屏幕，而光渗入只是掉在屏幕后面的黑暗中。

差异重要吗？ (Do the Differences Matter?)

With all those factors in mind, let’s look at some real world examples to show you how certain factors matter (or don’t).

考虑到所有这些因素，让我们看一些真实的例子，向您展示某些因素的重要性(或无关紧要)。

We’ve hosted many outdoor movie nights over the years and just leading up to writing this article we conducted a wide range of tests and scrutinized the results. We conducted these tests using two very different digital projectors: the Epson HC600 and the Epson HC3000. In their respective tiers, they’re both great projectors, but they’re certainly different.

多年来，我们举办了许多户外电影之夜，在撰写本文之前，我们进行了广泛的测试并仔细检查了结果。我们使用两种截然不同的数字投影仪进行了这些测试：Epson HC600和Epson HC3000。在各自的层次上，它们都是出色的投影仪，但是它们肯定是不同的。

The HC600 ($360) is one of Epson’s entry-level cinema projectors. It’s bright (3000 lumens) but it has a low resolution (only 800×600), and it offers no manual lens shift (but has digital keystoning). Although the HC600 is a perfectly solid (and very bright) projector in its price range, it has more in common with projectors you’d find in board rooms and classrooms than high-end home theaters.

HC600(360美元)是爱普生的入门级电影放映机之一。它明亮(3000流明)，但分辨率低(仅800×600)，并且不提供手动镜头移位(但具有数字梯形失真)。尽管HC600在其价格范围内是一款非常坚固(非常明亮)的投影仪，但与高端家庭影院相比，它与会议室和教室中的投影仪有更多的共同点。

The HC3000 ($1150) is a cinema-class projector designed for home theater use. It’s still pretty bright (2300 lumens) and we had no problems with a dim image while using it, it has true 1080 resolution in native 16:9 projection, and has very smooth and easy to use manual lens shift adjustment knobs.

HC3000(1150美元)是专为家庭影院使用而设计的电影级投影仪。它仍然非常明亮(2300流明)，使用它时我们对暗淡的图像没有任何问题，它在原始的16：9投影中具有真正的1080分辨率，并且具有非常平滑且易于使用的手动镜头移位调节旋钮。

As you can imagine, the HC3000 projector did, in fact, look better. If you focused even a modest amount of scrutiny on the images in comparison the Cinema 3000 unit was the clear winner (and at a cost three times higher, it should be).

可以想象，HC3000投影仪实际上看起来更好。相比之下，如果您仅对图像进行少量检查，Cinema 3000无疑是赢家(而且成本应该高出三倍)。

While a discriminating adult who is really analyzing image quality will definitely see the difference, not one kid during our backyard movie night spree was like “Wait a minute! Who switched out the 1080p projector for a mere VGA projector? I want my money back!” As long as the projector was bright, the image was properly focused, and the movie was rolling, they were all completely enraptured by the magic of the screen.

虽然确实会分析图像质量的有区别的成年人肯定会看到差异，但是在我们后院电影之夜狂欢中没有一个孩子会像“等一下！谁将1080p投影仪换成了纯粹的VGA投影仪？我想要回我的钱！” 只要放映机是明亮的，图像就可以正确聚焦，电影就可以滚动，它们全都被屏幕的魔力迷住了。

If you can afford the HC3000, it’s a beautiful projector that provides a beautiful image (and you’ll certainly want to put a projector mount in your house and use it all the time). If you can’t afford a $1,000+ projector, don’t write off hosting a movie night. Projectors like the HC600 are more affordable, and if a new projector is totally outside of your budget you can almost always find used business-class projectors on Craigslist as companies, schools, and other institutions churn through their stock. If you’re willing to spend $50-100 on a replacement bulb, you can almost always find a business-class projector dirt cheap.

如果您买得起HC3000，则它是一台可以提供美丽图像的漂亮投影机(并且您肯定会希望将投影机支架放到家里并一直使用)。如果您买不起一台1,000美元以上的投影机，请不要取消举办电影之夜的费用。像HC600这类的投影仪价格更便宜，而且如果一台新的投影仪完全超出您的预算，您几乎总是可以在Craigslist上找到二手的商务级投影仪，因为公司，学校和其他机构都在竭尽所能。如果您愿意在更换灯泡上花费50-100美元，则几乎总是可以找到便宜的商务级投影机。

In short: by all means get a nice cinema-class projector for your backyard movie (and home) experience if you can, but don’t let a high price tag stand in your way as there are very economical options available.

简而言之：如果可以的话，一定要为您的后院电影(和家庭)体验提供一台不错的电影院级放映机，但不要因为高昂的价格选择而阻碍高昂的价格。

媒体播放器 (The Media Player)

What will play your movies? A disc-based system like a DVD or Blu-ray player? Your laptop? A dedicated media player like an Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV? The media player you select is, paradoxically, almost entirely unimportant and really important for two different reasons.

什么会播放您的电影？ DVD或Blu-ray播放器等基于光盘的系统？您的笔记本电脑？专用的媒体播放器，例如Apple TV或Amazon Fire TV？矛盾的是，您选择的媒体播放器几乎完全不重要，并且由于两个不同的原因而非常重要。

On one hand, it’s almost unimportant as long as it plays what you want: once the movie is running smoothly, nobody is going to care if it’s fed into the projector from a disc, a flash drive, or streamed from your home network as long as it looks nice.

一方面，只要能播放所需的内容就几乎不重要：一旦电影运行顺利，就不会有人在乎电影是从光盘，闪存驱动器馈入投影机，还是从家庭网络流式传输。看起来不错

On the other hand, the media player you select (because of the available video inputs/outputs) can either make setting up your outdoor theater easier or harder (often adding a significant amount of complexity to wiring up your sound system).

另一方面，您选择的媒体播放器(由于可用的视频输入/输出)可以使室外影院的安装更加容易或困难(通常会增加连接音响系统的复杂性)。

If you plan on using media you have stored locally–purchased on iTunes, ripped from your DVD collection, streamed what Netflix, or whatever–a laptop is a great choice, as you can play a diverse range of stuff on it, it typically has an HDMI and/or VGA output for the projector, and it has a headphone jack ready to pipe into somewhere.

如果计划使用本地存储的媒体(在iTunes上购买，从DVD收藏中抓取，流式处理Netflix或其他内容)，则笔记本电脑是个不错的选择，因为您可以在笔记本电脑上播放各种内容，投影仪的HDMI和/或VGA输出，并且具有准备好插入某处的耳机插Kong。

Further, you can run all sorts of apps like Kodi Media Center and VLC, you can easily do slideshows or pull up YouTube videos, and so on. While we do like the geek cred aspect of setting up a little Raspberry Pi media box and using that, you really can’t beat a laptop for diversity (and it has a built-in screen for the projector operator to use which other options, like an Apple TV, do not).

此外，您可以运行各种应用程序，例如Kodi Media Center和VLC，还可以轻松地进行幻灯片放映或提取YouTube视频，等等。尽管我们确实喜欢设置一个小小的Raspberry Pi媒体盒并使用它的怪胎，但您确实无法击败笔记本电脑的多样性(它具有内置屏幕，供投影仪操作员使用其他选项，就像Apple TV一样)。

音响系统 (The Sound System)

“The sound system? What about the screen!” you say. Don’t worry, we’ll get to the screen. The reality is that the projector and the screen aren’t as finicky and complicated as the sound system. The projector comes down to “go big, go bright”, and you’d be amazed at the variety of things we can project on (we once hosted a Super Smash Bros. tournament that was projected onto a white garage door and it worked out just fine).

“音响系统？屏幕呢！” 你说。不用担心，我们将进入屏幕。现实情况是，投影仪和屏幕并不像音响系统那样复杂而复杂。投影仪降为“变大，变亮”，您会为我们可以进行的各种投影感到惊讶(我们曾经举办过一次《 Super Smash Bros.》比赛，投影到了一个白色的车库门上，结果正好)。

The sound system, on the other hand, requires a little more planning. While it’s easy enough to take a Blu-ray player and plug it into the HDMI port on a projector, where’s the sound? This is the element of the evening you need to spend the most time thinking about and planning for because, logistically, it’s the most complex. If the projection is a teensy bit washed out or the screen a little wrinkled, nobody will likely notice or care. If the sound system is too weak, muffled, or hard to understand, the audience will lose interest quickly.

另一方面，声音系统需要更多的计划。将蓝光播放器轻松插入投影仪的HDMI端口虽然很容易，但是声音在哪里呢？这是晚上您需要花费大量时间进行思考和计划的元素，因为从逻辑上讲，这是最复杂的。如果投影被一点点冲洗掉或屏幕有点起皱，则没人会注意到或关心它。如果声音系统太弱，低沉或难以理解，听众会很快失去兴趣。

Over the years we’ve experimented with many, many, different ways to run sound for our outdoor movie nights that range from hauling an entire AV receiver outside, running cable, and setting up 5.1 surround sound in the yard (which is no small undertaking, requires lots of wire, and we were worried about kids tripping on a wire or trashing a speaker the whole time) to using a single but powerful all-in-one speaker.

多年来，我们已经尝试了很多很多，不同的方法来为我们的户外电影之夜，从院子里拖整个AV接收器之外，运行线，并设置了5.1环绕声(这是个不小的任务范围运行声音，需要大量的电线，我们担心孩子们经常绊在电线上或浪费扬声器)以使用单个但功能强大的多合一扬声器。

Although we can attest to having watts upon watts of power setup with a dedicated subwoofer being awesome, we’re going to defer to the mindset we highlighted in the projector section: you aren’t going for perfect audio fidelity here, you’re going for the good-enough-for-fun fidelity. The less wiring, the less fussing, and the less worrying about the setup you have to do the better.

尽管我们可以用超重的低音炮来证明功率设置上有瓦特，但我们还是要遵循在投影仪部分突出显示的思维定式：在这里您并不需要完美的音频保真度，为了获得足够的乐趣。接线越少，烦恼就越少，而您对设置的担心就越少，那就越好。

To that end, our current favorite arrangement is one that we find extremely convenient: we use a beefy Bluetooth speaker and pipe the sound wirelessly to the audience. If you’re a long-time reader you might recall the beefy tabletop Bluetooth speaker we used as a demo unit in our article The HTG Guide to Portable Bluetooth Speakers, the Nyne Bass. We pair the Nyne, which has a huge amount of sound and rich bass for its size, with a Bluetooth transmitter (the Avantree Priva, which we recommended in the article How to Add Bluetooth Headphones to Your HDTV) hooked to the headphone jack on our laptop.

为此，我们目前最喜欢的一种安排是我们发现非常方便的一种安排：我们使用功能强大的蓝牙扬声器，并将声音无线传递给听众。如果您是一位长期阅读者，您可能会想起我们在《 HTG便携式蓝牙扬声器指南： Nyne Bass 》一文中用作演示单元的功能强大的台式蓝牙扬声器。我们将Nyne(具有巨大的声音和丰富的低音)与挂钩在我们耳机插Kong上的Bluetooth发送器( Avantree Priva ，我们在文章“如何向HDTV添加Bluetooth耳机”中推荐的)配对。笔记本电脑。

Now, again, we recommend using what you have on hand to avoid a huge bill for your movie night. We happened to have a nice Bluetooth speaker and a transmitter on hand. If we didn’t have those items on hand, we would have used other things we had on hand (like a 20 foot phono-jack cable to the auxiliary input jack on an old boombox we keep out in our workshop). A $4 cable plus a $10 yard sale boombox could work just as well for you.

现在，再次，我们建议您使用手头上的东西，以避免在电影之夜花费巨额账单。我们碰巧手边有一个漂亮的蓝牙扬声器和一个发射器。如果手头没有这些物品，那我们将使用我们手头上的其他东西(例如，一条20英尺的耳机插Kong电缆连接到我们存放在车间中的旧音箱上的辅助输入插Kong)。一条4美元的电缆加上一个10美元的院子里的音箱，可能对您同样有效。

屏幕 (The Screen)

It might seem strange to many readers that we’ve put the screen this far down in the list of considerations, but honestly compared to the logistics of selecting a projector, setting up some sort of media player, and getting the sound system linked in, the screen is truly (we promise!) almost an afterthought.

对于许多读者来说，我们将屏幕放到考虑的范围之内可能看起来很奇怪，但是老实说，与选择投影仪，安装某种媒体播放器和连接音响系统的后勤工作相比，屏幕确实(我们保证！)几乎是事后才想到的。

Outdoor projection is extremely forgiving when it comes to screen quality, as the brightness of the projector, the potential light pollution from street lamps and the like, as well as just the general excitement and activity of the evening generally smooth over any sort of imperfections (if they are even noticed at all).

当涉及到屏幕质量时，户外投影是非常宽容的，因为投影机的亮度，路灯等的潜在光污染以及夜晚的一般兴奋和活动通常会因各种瑕疵而变得平滑( (甚至根本没有注意到它们)。

When it comes to selecting an outdoor projection screen, your three questions should be, in this order: what is my budget? how big do I want it? do I want rear or front projection? Although we haven’t delved into it before this point, rear projection is a really handy tool to have in your backyard movie night toolkit.

在选择室外投影屏时，您应该按以下顺序回答三个问题：我的预算是多少？我要多大？我想要背面投影还是正面投影？尽管在此之前我们还没有深入研究过，但是背投是您后院电影之夜工具包中非常方便的工具。

Traditionally, you project the image from the back of the audience onto the screen (just like in a regular movie theater). Movie theaters do it that way because it’s space efficient. The audience sits in the throw distance so no space is wasted behind the screen accommodating the long throw of a large projector. In your backyard, however, it’s often very handy to do a rear projection because no children or guests will get in the way of the light and you can hide the projector, cords, and even speakers all behind the screen out of the way and out of sight.

传统上，您将图像从观众的后方投射到屏幕上(就像在常规电影院中一样)。电影院之所以这样做，是因为它节省了空间。观众坐在投掷距离内，因此屏幕后面不会浪费任何空间，以适应大型投影机的长投掷。但是，在您的后院，进行背投通常非常方便，因为没有孩子或客人会挡住光线，并且您可以将投影仪，电源线甚至扬声器全部隐藏在屏幕后面视线。

With all that in mind, let’s take a look at some common screen solutions.

考虑到所有这些，让我们看一些常见的屏幕解决方案。

床单和遮光布 (Bed Sheets & Blackout Cloth)

On the very cheapest side of things, you can get by with a bed sheet. Truly, you can! Iron a bed sheet to get it as wrinkle free as possible, and then secure the sheet in such a fashion that the sheet is kept fairly immobile and under a slight bit of tension. To do so you can do a few different things. Over the years (and before we invested in a real projection screen) we used white sheets without a problem and would secure them either by tying the corners to twine and stretching the fabric pretty tight between supports (like between the wall of the garage and a big tree in the yard) or–and this was a preferred method–we’d clip the top of the sheet to something sturdy like the garage gutters or a swing set and then clip the bottom of the sheet to a broom handle to provide weight and tension. It might not look super professional, but when the lights are out, nobody cares.

在最便宜的方面，您可以带床单。确实可以！熨烫床单以使其尽可能没有皱纹，然后以这样的方式固定床单，使床单保持相当的固定性并承受一点张力。为此，您可以做一些不同的事情。多年来(在我们投资购买真正的投影屏之前)，我们使用白色板材没有问题，并且可以通过绑紧角落进行缠绕并在支撑物之间牢固拉紧织物(例如在车库的墙壁和地板之间)来固定它们。院子里的一棵大树)或-这是一种首选方法-我们将床单的顶部剪到坚固的东西上，例如车库排水沟或Swing，然后将床单的底部剪到扫帚手柄上以提供重量和紧张。它看起来可能不是超级专业，但是当灯光熄灭时，没有人在乎。

If you want to keep things cheap but not splurge too much, we highly recommend going to your local fabric store and getting some blackout cloth. It’s a cotton/vinyl blend that is intended to be stitched to the back of curtains to, as the name implies, black out a room. The cloth itself, however, is a nice uniform white color and very sturdy. Two yards worth of blackout cloth is cheap and makes a great projector screen. In fact, when we built a home theater in our basement and didn’t want to splurge on a professional screen, we made a giant 200″ screen out of nothing but a pinewood frame with blackout cloth stretched over it. Five years later it still works great.

如果您想保持便宜，但又不想花太多钱，我们强烈建议您去当地的布料店买些遮光布。它是一种棉/乙烯基混纺，旨在缝合到窗帘的背面，顾名思义，将房间涂成黑色。布料本身是均匀的白色，非常结实。两码的遮光布价格便宜，并且可以制作出不错的投影仪屏幕。实际上，当我们在地下室建立家庭影院并且不想在专业银幕上挥霍时，我们只用一块松木框架加一块遮光布制作了一块200英寸的巨型银幕。五年后，它仍然运行良好。

The big upside of using plain old thin white sheets is they are cheap and you can do front or rear projection. The downside is light cotton isn’t the best screen around. The upside of using blackout cloth is that it is remarkably well suited for projection, it’s relatively cheap, it’s very sturdy, and as long as you clip it to something sturdy it resists the wind very well. The downside is you can’t do rear projection.

使用普通的老式薄白纸的最大好处是价格便宜，您可以进行正投影或背投影。不利的一面是，轻质棉并不是最好的屏幕。使用遮光布的好处是，它非常适合投影，它相对便宜，非常坚固，而且只要将其夹在坚固的东西上，它就能很好地抵抗风。缺点是您不能进行背投。

旧的室内投影幕 (Old Indoor Projection Screens)

While your HD projector might be brand new and definitely 21st century, analog projectors have been around forever and projection screen technology has changed very little. If you keep an eye on Craigslist, you can find old and new projector screens for dirt cheap. (As of this article there is a widescreen format roll-down projector screen on our local Craigslist for a mere $40!)

虽然您的高清投影仪可能是全新的，而且肯定是21世纪的，但模拟投影仪已经存在了很长时间，并且投影屏幕技术的变化很小。如果您关注Craigslist，则可以找到便宜的新旧投影机屏幕。 (截至本文，在我们的本地Craigslist上有一个宽屏格式的下拉式投影仪屏幕，仅售40美元！)

The tradeoff here is that often times the screens you find are 4:3 ratio instead of 16:9, and you’ll need to figure out some way to safely hang up the screen (or to weight down the stand if it came with one so it doesn’t blow over). The upside is you can find them super cheap and the screen is designed for projection and will have benefits like a semi-reflective coating to make the picture brighter. Rear projection roll-down screens are incredibly rare so if you go this route know that you’ll be doing front projection.

这里的权衡是，您通常会发现屏幕的比例是4：3而不是16：9，并且您需要找出一些方法来安全地挂起屏幕(或者在支架附带一个支架的情况下减轻其重量)因此不会爆炸)。好处是您可以发现它们非常便宜，并且屏幕是专为投影而设计的，并且具有半反射涂层的优点，可以使图像更明亮。背投下拉式屏幕极为罕见，因此，如果您走这条路线，将知道您将进行前投。

户外投影幕 (Outdoor Projection Screens)

Here’s where you’re getting into the making-an-investment territory. If you’re serious about throwing a top-notch outdoor movie night (and you plan on doing it with some frequency), it’s absolutely worth getting a nice outdoor movie screen.

这是您进入投资领域的地方。如果您真的想举办一流的户外电影之夜(并且打算以一定的频率这样做)，那么绝对值得拥有一个不错的户外电影屏幕。

Outdoor movies screen come in two primary varieties: inflatable and fixed frame. We have used (and own) both varieties and fixed frames are our favorite. First, let’s highlight the good thing about inflatable screens. If you want the biggest backyard screen you can get your hands on then you’ll want an inflatable. Smaller models range in size from 120-144″ on the small side (10 to 12 feet diagonal!) with a cost of ~$150-200. We own a Gemmy-brand inflatable (a very common and widely sold brand) just like this particular Gemmy Airblow model ($169) except our older model has inflatable legs that elevate the screen. Bigger models can exceed 16 feet across and go all the way up to drive-in-movie-theater size for showing films to hundreds of people. The cost for the larger models quickly climbs from the $500 range for the smaller models to thousands of dollars for the largest.

户外电影屏幕有两个主要种类：充气式和固定式。我们已经使用(并拥有)品种和固定框架都是我们的最爱。首先，让我们重点介绍充气屏风的优点。如果您想要最大的后院屏幕，那么可以动手了。较小的型号尺寸较小，从120-144英寸(对角线10到12英尺！)，成本约为150-200美元。我们拥有Gemmy品牌的充气设备(这是一个非常普遍且广泛销售的品牌)，就像这个特定的Gemmy Airblow型号(169美元)一样，只是我们的旧型号具有可抬高屏幕的充气脚。更大的模型可以跨越16英尺远，并且一直延伸到电影院中的影院大小，以便向数百人展示电影。大型机型的成本从小型机型的$ 500Swift攀升至大型机型的数千美元。

The upside to inflatables is that they are big, they are economical for their size, they’re pretty light to transport (as they’re almost all fabric), and they set up really quickly. The downside is that they’re bulky (the inflated unit can take up quite a bit of space) and they require electricity to power the blowers. The blowers are also fairly noisy and anywhere within movie viewing range you’ll hear the fan hum. Inflatable models generally support front and rear projection.

充气产品的好处是体积大，尺寸经济，运输轻便(因为它们几乎都是织物)，而且安装起来很快。缺点是它们体积大(充气的设备可能占用相当大的空间)，并且它们需要电力来为鼓风机供电。鼓风机也很吵，在电影观看范围内的任何地方，您都会听到风扇嗡嗡声。充气模型通常支持前后投影。

Fixed frame models like the Camp Chef 120 ($223), seen above, rely on a steel or composite frame to tension the screen and very sturdy construction, guy lines, and tie down stakes to keep the whole affair safely on the ground and not tipping over on a little kid. The biggest benefit, bar none, is that there is no operation noise. It’s just a steel frame with a sturdy rip-stop nylon screen stretched tight over it. No electricity needed, no humming, just a beautiful white projection surface (which supports front or rear projection).

如上所示， Camp Chef 120($ 223)等固定框架模型依靠钢制或复合框架张紧屏幕，并具有坚固的结构，拉线和绑扎桩，以确保整个事件安全地在地面上而不倾斜在一个小孩上。最大的好处是，没有操作噪音。它只是一个钢制框架，坚固的防撕裂尼龙筛网在其上紧密拉伸。不需要电，没有嗡嗡声，只有美丽的白色投影表面(支持正反投影)。

We’ll admit that we were, at first, rather dubious about whether or not the sturdy and tightly woven rip-stop nylon screen of the Camp Chef screen would work well for rear projection, but it worked beautifully. Technology is downright magical sometimes. Expect to pay $225-350 for a fixed frame model.

我们会承认，起初，我们对Camp Chef屏幕的坚固且紧密编织的防撕裂尼龙屏幕是否可以很好地用于背投感到怀疑，但它的工作方式却很漂亮。有时候，技术是彻头彻尾的神奇。固定框架型号的价格预计为225-350美元。

Whether you get an inflatable or a fixed frame model, we would discourage you from paying full price if you have the patience. By shopping deal websites like FatWallet! and keeping an eye on discounter sales sites like Woot!, we scored both of our screens at a substantial discount. Movie screens are just one of those products that pops up a few times a year at steep discounts, and it pays to wait if you want to save a lot.

无论您是购买充气式还是固定式的车模，如果您有足够的耐心，我们都不建议您全额支付。通过像FatWallet这样的购物网站！并密切关注类似Woot的折扣销售网站！，我们在两个屏幕上的得分都很高。电影屏幕只是这些产品之一，每年以高折扣打折几次，如果您想节省很多钱，那就值得等待。

额外 (The Extras)

At this point, we’ve covered all the ground necessary to get the screen up, the projector running, and the sound pumping. There are a few additional considerations big and small, however, that we’d encourage you to read over before you finish your movie night planning.

至此，我们已经覆盖了安装屏幕，投影仪运行和声音传送所需的所有地面。但是，还有其他一些大大小小的注意事项，建议您在完成电影之夜计划之前先通读。

邻居 (Be Neighborly)

The first and most polite consideration is to think of your neighbors. We’ve been doing backyard movie nights for nearly ten years now and during that period we’ve had small children of our own and all along the neighbors have had small children of various ages.

首先也是最有礼貌的考虑是想到邻居。我们从事后院电影之夜已经有近十年了，在那段时间里，我们有自己的小孩，而邻居们一直都有不同年龄的小孩。

Not only is it impolite to keep your neighbors up, it’s even worse to watch something inappropriate on your giant movie screen that the tykes next door could catch a glimpse of. As a general rule if you don’t live way out in the country, it’s a good idea to keep your movie selections PG and certainly free from nudity and any kind of gore.

让邻居呆在家里不仅是不礼貌的，更糟糕的是，在巨大的电影屏幕上观看不适当的东西，隔壁的子可能会瞥见它们。作为一般规则，如果您不在该国生活，那么最好将您的电影选择保持在PG水平，并且一定要避免裸露和任何刺痛。

Speaking of neighbors, the best way to have a hassle free movie night is to invite them. As we like to say when we throw big backyard parties, if anyone that could call the police and complain about the noise is making the noise with you…then the problem is solved! Even if your neighbors don’t care to come, it’s a nice gesture, it will make them more tolerant of any light or noise coming out of your yard that evening, and it also gives you a chance to make sure you’re not creating a disturbance. When you chat with them about the invite over the fence, for example, you might discover your movie night is the same night your neighbor is coming home from a major surgery and opt to not fill your backyard with rowdy children.

谈到邻居，度过一个无忧无虑的电影之夜的最好方法是邀请他们。就像我们在大型后院聚会上说的那样，如果有人可以打电话报警并且抱怨噪音正在和您吵闹……那么问题就解决了！即使您的邻居不在乎，这也是一个不错的手势，它将使他们更能容忍那天晚上从院子里发出的任何光线或噪音，这还使您有机会确保自己没有创造骚动。例如，当您与他们通过篱笆聊天时，您可能会发现电影之夜与邻居从大手术中回家的那一天是晚上，并且选择不让吵闹的孩子挤满后院。

座位区 (Seating Zones)

While staying in your neighbors good graces is a top priority in our extra consideration section, there’s also a whole pile of practical and fun things to consider. On the practical side of things, how are you going to handle seating? Blankets for the kids and lawn chairs for the adults is a common arrangement. If you have a spacious or at least long and narrow yard you can also split the space up so one part of the yard is the viewing area (typically dominated by kids) and the other part is an adult sit, drink, and chat zone.

在我们的额外考虑部分中，与邻居保持良好的生活是重中之重，同时还需要考虑很多实用且有趣的事情。从实际出发，您将如何处理座位？通常为孩子们准备毯子，为成年人准备草椅。如果您有一个宽敞的院子，或者至少是一个狭长的院子，那么您也可以将空间分开，以便院子的一部分是观赏区(通常由孩子控制)，另一部分是成人坐，饮酒和聊天区。

One clever idea we came across some time ago and made note of (but have yet to replicate ourselves) is to gather up a pile of decent size boxes and have kids decorate them like little cars to create their own “drive-in” movie theater.

我们前段时间遇到并记下(但尚未复制)的一个聪明的主意是收集一堆像样的盒子，让孩子们像小汽车一样装饰它们，以创建自己的“自动驾驶”电影院。

零食 (Snacks)

We’re confident you’ve got the basics of movie night snacking down pat, but there are a bunch of fun little things you can do to make snacking at your outdoor theater fun. You can pick up old-fashioned popcorn containers dirt cheap on Amazon (about 18 cents a popcorn box). Your local food service store most likely has large and cheap containers of popcorn butter and seasoning salt too; perhaps not the healthiest stuff around but it gives your made-at-home popcorn a movie-quality taste.

我们相信您已经掌握了电影之夜零食的基础知识，但是您可以做很多有趣的小事来使户外剧院的零食变得有趣。您可以在亚马逊上以便宜的价格拾起老式爆米花容器(爆米花盒约18美分)。您当地的食品服务店很可能也装有大而便宜的爆米花黄油和调味盐容器；也许不是周围最健康的食物，但它为您自制的爆米花带来了电影级的味道。

Finally, if you’re in a super splurging kind of mood, you could even pick up a legitimate popcorn maker. We have one on hand because when we went to rent one for a birthday party we found that it was cheaper to buy one and have it forever than to rent one for a day. Spending around $150 on a popcorn maker might seem crazy but when you consider how much it costs to buy little premade packets of popcorn to feed 20+ people at a party (and then factor in how many movie parties you want to throw), it gets pretty reasonable pretty fast. Further, don’t forget our old friend Craiglist. There are always popcorn makers floating around as many organizations come to the same conclusion we did (that it is cheaper to buy a unit and use it for a fundraiser rather than rent it) but then turn around and sell it when they no longer need it.

最后，如果您的心情超级扑朔迷离，甚至可以选择合法的爆米花机。我们手头上有一个，因为当我们去租一个人参加生日聚会时，我们发现买一个并永远拥有它比一天租一个便宜。在爆米花机上花费150美元左右可能看起来很疯狂，但是当您考虑购买少量预制的爆米花盒以供20多人参加派对时花了多少钱(然后考虑要举办多少个电影派对)，它就会变得相当合理，相当快。此外，不要忘记我们的老朋友Craiglist。总是有爆米花制造商四处游荡，因为许多组织都得出了与我们相同的结论(购买一个单位并将其用于筹款而不是租用便宜)，然后在不再需要它时转身出售。

照明与安全 (Lighting and Safety)

Our last consideration is practical and fun rolled into one. Although you want to keep ambient lighting to a minimum to not distract from the movie or wash out the screen, do plan for some kind of minimal lighting so that people can move around. We do most of our lighting purchases at the end of seasons (where you can find tiki torches for dirt cheap at the end of summer and rope lighting for dirt cheap after Christmas). Throw some rope lighting down and tack it down with some tent stakes at the end of your movie zone and you’ve got some nice subtle lighting and great boundary for the smaller kids (it’s easy to tell them not to cross over the lights into the darkness but to follow them back to where the adults are seated).

我们的最后考虑是实用和有趣的。尽管您希望将周围的照明保持在最低水平，以免分散电影的注意力或洗净屏幕，但请计划一些最小的照明，以便人们可以四处走动。我们会在每个季节结束时购买大部分照明设备(在夏季结束时，您可以找到价格便宜的tiki火炬，在圣诞节之后找到便宜的绳索照明)。在电影区的尽头扔一些绳子照明，并用一些帐篷桩固定下来，对于较小的孩子，您会有一些不错的细微照明和大边界(很容易告诉他们不要将灯越过进入黑暗，但跟随他们回到大人就座的地方)。

On the fun side of things, kids love glow sticks, and you can get them dirt cheap online. We’ve bought multiple tubes of these little bracelet glow sticks over the years; at $9 for a 100 of them you can afford to every kid’s hands full of the things. You’ll be a movie night hero, trust us.

在事物的有趣方面，孩子们喜欢荧光棒，您可以在网上便宜地买到它们。这些年来，我们已经购买了多支这些小手镯荧光棒。每100颗9美元，您就可以负担得起每个孩子手中所有的东西。您将成为电影之夜的英雄，相信我们。

预卷盘 (The Pre-Reel)

In the last entry in the considerations section, we’ll let you in on our best backyard movie night secret: the pre-reel. People are going to be excited about the movie, the experience, and being outside socializing. Kids, especially, are going to be bouncing off the walls. Expect them to ask you every five minutes when it is time for the movie. We totally understand their excitement, but it gets really old really fast when a dozen different kids are asking you over and over.

在“注意事项”部分的最后一个条目中，我们将让您介绍我们最好的后院电影之夜的秘密：预卷。人们将对电影，体验和社交之外的事物感到兴奋。尤其是孩子们，将在墙壁上弹跳。希望他们在看电影的时候每五分钟问一次你。我们完全理解他们的兴奋，但是当十几个不同的孩子不断地问您时，它真的很快就变老了。

Our solution to that problem that completely cuts down on people asking when it is time to watch the movie is to run a pre-reel. We set everything up, we test everything, we align the projector properly, and then when the guests arrive near dusk, we spool up something that essentially acts as a gauge for when it is time to watch the movie. Our current favorite clip, because it’s really relaxing, kids love it, and it doesn’t need sound to be great to watch, is this 2-hour loop of a beautiful HD video clip of the Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. In the photo above you can see the kids playing between the projector and the screen as they wait for the appointed movie time.

我们解决这个问题的方法完全是减少人们询问何时该看电影的时间，它是运行预卷盘。我们进行了所有设置，我们进行了所有测试，正确地调整了投影机的位置，然后当客人接近黄昏时，我们整理了一些东西，这些东西实际上是看电影的时候的标准。我们目前最喜欢的剪辑是这个2小时循环的日本冲绳美丽海水族馆高清视频剪辑，因为它真的很放松，孩子们喜欢它，并且不需要听起来就很棒。在上面的照片中，您可以看到孩子们在等待指定的电影时间时在投影仪和屏幕之间玩耍。

We spool up that video, let it roll, and as the twilight deepens the picture becomes increasingly crisp and vivid. Eventually people are just naturally drawn to it, kids sit down hypnotized by the fish swimming by, and without even having to raise your voice and yell “Movie time!” everyone is ready for the show. Better yet, because the kids are so intent on trying to make out what is going on the screen they totally forget to ask you when the movie is starting.

我们将视频后台处理，然后滚动，随着暮色的加深，图像变得越来越清晰逼真。最终，人们自然而然地被它吸引了，孩子们坐着被鱼游动的催眠术坐下来，甚至不必抬高声音大喊“电影时间！” 每个人都准备好了表演。更好的是，因为孩子们非常想知道屏幕上发生了什么，所以他们完全忘记了电影何时开始问你。

后院电影之夜的最终决定 (The Final Word On Backyard Movie Night)

At this point you’re probably like “Guys. Wow. This is a lot of stuff for backyard movie night.” Don’t worry, this is us dumping years and years of experience with our little backyard projectionist hobby on your lap at one time.

此时，您可能会喜欢“ 哇。后院电影之夜有很多东西。” 别担心，这是我们一次又一次地将我们的后院放映员的业余爱好倾倒在您腿上的多年经验。

You don’t have to go out and drop tons of money to host a backyard movie night. You don’t need a premium HD projector. You don’t need surround sound. You don’t need a dedicated projection screen. While all those things are really great and they increase the quality of the viewing experience it is so much better to score some cheap goodies off Craiglist (like a business projector a local college no longer wants and a cheap boombox for sound) than it is to not have fun goofing around in your backyard and watching movies under the stars. The experience should be about getting your neighbors and friends together, not obsessing about a perfect setup or putting it off for lack of top-tier gear.

您不必出门投入大量资金即可举办后院电影之夜。您不需要优质的高清投影仪。您不需要环绕声。您不需要专用的投影屏幕。虽然所有这些功能确实很棒，并且可以提高观看体验的质量，但比Craiglist便宜一些好东西(例如当地大学不再想要的商务投影仪和便宜的音响发声盒)要好得多。在后院闲逛，在星空下看电影，会很有趣。经验应该是让邻居和朋友在一起，而不是痴迷于完美的安装或因缺乏顶级装备而推迟安装。

Finally, we’ll leave you with a parting gift to further whet your appetite for backyard theater life. Around ten years ago we got the backyard theater bug and spent hours poring over the pictures and forum posts over at BackyardTheater.com. The site is still around, still going strong, and still an absolutely fantastic resource for backyard movie enthusiasts brand new or well seasoned. There you’ll find information (and incredible pictures) of everything from tiny setups scraped together on a shoestring budget to guys who spend their entire fun-money allotment on building $15,000 backyard theaters over years worth of planning and investing. If the article today has piqued your interest, you owe it to yourself to check the place out.

最后，我们将给您一份分手礼物，以进一步激发您对后院剧院生活的胃口。大约十年前，我们收到了后院剧院的错误，并花了数小时在BackyardTheater.com上浏览图片和论坛帖子。该网站仍然存在，仍在不断发展壮大，对于新手或经验丰富的后院电影发烧友来说，这仍然是一个绝妙的资源。在那里，您会找到所有信息(和令人难以置信的图片)，从花费很小的钱凑成的小巧的装置，到花了数年时间进行规划和投资的，花费全部乐趣的资金来建造$ 15,000后院剧院的家伙。如果今天的文章引起了您的兴趣，您应该自己检查一下这个地方。

Have experience building a backyard theater big or small? Have questions about setting your own up? Jump into the forum below and share.

有建立大型后院剧院的经验吗？对设置自己有疑问吗？跳到下面的论坛并分享。