Water Screen Projection System
How the screen, projection and playback parts fit together as one system.
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Water Screen Movie
A water screen turns a fountain into a cinema: a thin fan of water rises from the basin or lake, and projectors paint film and laser imagery onto it — images that float over the water and dissolve back into it.
- Film & laser projection
- Multimedia night shows
- Event & waterfront venues
- Pairs with musical shows
On this pageThe water screen is the fountain's multimedia layer: projection, laser and choreography sharing one night-show timeline.
Water Screen Movies for Night Shows and Events
The water screen movie format uses a specially formed sheet of water as a projection surface. From the audience side, video and laser content appears suspended above the basin; from the production side, it is a fountain subsystem — screen-forming nozzles, water supply, projection positions and content playback — that has to be designed with the rest of the show, not bolted onto it.
Venues use water screens where a conventional screen cannot go: over a lake at a festival, across the basin of a landmark fountain for a national-day program, or as the multimedia centrepiece of a resort night show. The reference project at Valley Resort in Saudi Arabia combines its dancing fountain with water screen and laser effects — the pattern this format is most often bought in.
- System parts
- Water screen formation nozzles and supply, projection positions, playback coordination and show control integration
- Content shown
- Film and video projection, laser graphics, combined multimedia segments within a musical show
- Settings
- Waterfront festivals, landmark fountains, resort night shows, civic celebrations
- Design inputs
- Screen size and position, audience distance and angle, ambient light, projector throw positions
Projection Is a Sightline Problem First
A water screen image is only as good as the geometry behind it. Screen height and width follow from the audience distance; projectors need positions with the right throw and angle; ambient light from promenades and buildings washes the image if it is not planned for; and wind moves a water surface in ways a rigid screen never does, which is why screen segments are programmed as one act within the wider show rather than a separate attraction competing with it.
The design stage works through these inputs with your venue plan. Where a full water screen is more than the brief needs, the same multimedia thinking scales down — laser segments over a musical fountain, or projection moments inside an event program. The laser water show guide page covers what listing-level information supports, honestly and without invented specification.
From the Blog: What Is a Water Screen Movie?
New to the format? What is a water screen movie? explains how a fan of water becomes a cinema, the four variables that decide whether the picture works, and where the format earns its production cost.
Water Screen Questions
What content can a water screen show?
Film, video and laser graphics prepared for the screen's proportions. Content is played back through the show control so projection segments land inside the musical program, not beside it.
Does a water screen need a fountain basin?
It needs a water body and the screen-forming equipment — a basin, a lake edge or a floating arrangement. The venue plan decides which; the design review works from your site.
Can we add a water screen to an existing fountain?
Often yes, if the water supply and control capacity allow it. Send the existing system's details and the design team will assess the screen position and projection geometry first.