[Tech1] Lighting

[Bernard Newnham]

It was Bob Wright who lit Falstaff with Sir Geraint Evans.  One wall of 
TC1 a full height cyc with a quarter of a megawatt pointed at it. He 
made the sun rise and it felt close to real.

B


On 20/01/2019 22:49, Neil Dormand via Tech1 wrote:
>
> Early seventies, I can’t remember the play but it was a garden set 
> which filled TC1 and Bob Wright lit it with 1 Key light. Filler 
> provided by reflected light off a cyc cloth behind the cameras. He 
> told me that it had been his long time ambition to light the  whole of 
> TC1 with 1 luminaire.
>
> *From:*Tech1 [mailto:tech1-bounces at tech-ops.co.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Bernard Newnham via Tech1
> *Sent:* 20 January 2019 21:43
> *To:* tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk
> *Subject:* [Tech1] Lighting
>
> When I joined tech ops as a 19 year old from school, dragging cables 
> around TC1, I was somewhat unimpressed with the quality of studio 
> lighting.  I knew nothing yet of the technicalities, but I did know 
> that it didn't look right. It was epitomised for me by a scene in a 
> play called Christ Recrucified . A man staggered into a Cypriot 
> village (in TC1). The sun burned down - three times over. He had three 
> shadows. If I had been director Hugh David, I would have given Gerry 
> Millerson a serious talking to, book or no book, but I was just an 
> oik. It's all much changed now, but I didn't, and still don't, know 
> why they couldn't work out in those days where light came from .
>
> To a lesser extent - much lesser - places outside the BBC have evolved 
> their lighting down the years. Was it Deep Space Nine that time 
> travelled back to the world of the original Enterprise to be part of 
> the Star Trek crew in Trouble with Tribbles? They had to recreate the 
> look and the sets.
>
> The latest Star trek - Discovery - is set in the era of the original 
> series, but they don't worry about matching the lighting, and the 
> results are incredible. I could light the picture on the right, but 
> have no idea how to make the one on the left. The whole episode, just 
> out on Netflix, is equally impressive. And Spock does a voice over at 
> the end.
>
>

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