MANCHESTER, U.K. — Lighting designer Tom Kinane used I-Pix BB7 LED wash lights for the first time on the set of the final episode of the Peter Kay talent show spoof, Britain’s Got The Pop Factor … And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice. Kinane, again working closely with moving and digital lighting programmer and operator Svend Pedersen used 12 of i-Pix’s new BB7 wash lights during the three-week shoot before a live audience, which took place in Studio 12 at Granada TV.
The BB7s were used for low-level effects lights, and Kinane, who dubbed them the “daisy lights,” also liked their petal-like shape. “They are fantastic, and I look forward to incorporating them in a big LE rig soon,” he said.
He also used 80 i-Pix Satellites on the show for set dressing, 40 flanking the stage illuminating a series of silvery grey set pieces. “Once again the satellites were great tools,” he said, noting the ability to tuck them into odd corners and conceal them in small spaces.
To complete the picture, Kinane used some i-Pix BB4s as side washes both sides of the stage.
“Creatively, the whole lighting idea was to mimic those big reality TV show looks, with lots of color and movement and plenty of depth of field for the cameras,” Kinane said.
The BB7s, along with all the other LED lightsources and surfaces on Simon Kimmel’s set, were driven by a Flying Pig Systems Wholehog 3 lighting console.
Equipment for this show was supplied by a combination of HSL and Automated Lighting, plus Granada’s own stock. The crew included gaffer Brian Owen, console operator Taras Kochan, Richard Jarvis and Graham Ramsdale.
Kinane recently had the chance to use the wash capabilities of the BB4 when he lit a cyc wrapping 180 degrees around Studio TC8 at the BBC’s London Television Centre in Shepherd’s Bush, west London for Noel’s HQ. He used 70 BB4s in a floor line configuration for that project.
He also encouraged film and TV lighting rental company Panalux to invest in 60 Satellites for the upcoming ITV1 program, Spinstar, which he’s lighting. “They are fantastic,” he said. “You can put them anywhere very easily.”
On the i-Pix team he said, “The BB7 and BB4 really have taken the developments of show LED fixtures to new levels of creative possibilities.”
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