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05/12/2012

HSL Supplies Lighting for S4C TV Shows

HSL has supplied nearly 300 moving and LED lightsources and over 100 generics to a series of Welsh language channel S4C Light Entertainment programmes recorded in a 10 day block at Studio 1 of the NEP Cymru (ITV Wales) facility at Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff.
These were specified by Cardiff and London based Lighting Designer Steffan Jones, who designed lighting and video for the raft of programmes, many featuring live artists. He was working for production companies Boomerang PLC in association with Alfresco TV and Apollo TV, and co-producers Mr. Producer.
HSL’s TV and broadcast specialist Sean McGlone co-ordinated the project. He comments: "It’s always a pleasure working with Steff. His drive, enthusiasm, imagination and keen visual eye are refreshing and invigorating, and his designs always interesting."
NEPC is the largest OB and studio facilities company in Wales, and the batch recording session included the creation of popular programmes like "Noson", "Carolau Gobaith" and others.
Flexibility was the key to the lighting design, and so the rig was based on offering numerous options for Jones. He had to embrace and light a plethora of music and performance genres - from classical to pop, urban and rap - plus radically different daily set ups and formats across the 10 intensive days.
He also had to consider a heterogeneity of ideas from artists, managements, creative, choreographers as - well as his own – and incorporate all into a coherent look, feel and signature ambience for each of the specific shows being recorded.
This was all in a very short timescale, and often with limited rehearsals!
It was a question of thinking rapidly, often out-of-the-box and having real confidence in the design and set up for Jones and his programming team of Bill Peachment (moving lights and LED) and Chris Barroccu (generics), who both used Compulite Vector consoles.
While the overhead lighting rig had to be ultimately versatile, the floor elements were swapped daily, together with the LED screens to help keep the visuality for each show different and unique.
HSL supplied a selection of moving lights from all the major manufacturers - Vari*Lite VL3000 Spots and 3500 Washes; Robe ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, Robe ROBIN 600E Washes, 300 Beams, ColorWash 2500E ATs, and ColorSpot 700E ATs; Martin MAC III Performances and eight of the new MAC Viper Spots; Clay Paky Sharpies; Chauvet 230SR Legends; GLP Impressions and four Nova Flowers.
These were deployed in the air and on the floor.
HSL also delivered PixelPARs and PixelLine 1044 LED battens, together with standard single PAR 64s and bars-of-6 PARs, over 20 Studio 5Ks and nearly 50 ETC Source Fours
Seventy-four Pulsar ChromaStrip 900s from HSL were ensconced into the set pieces designed by Phil Williams, which also changed every day, and the Lighting department also controlled LED strip-lighting on the set steps.
Atmospheric effects were created with the combination of three different types of machine – Glaciator Dry Icers, Jem K1 Hazers for the classical shows and DF50 diffusion hazers for the pop and rock shows. HSL also supplied Robert Juliat Alex follow spots.
The video content was controlled and played back via a Hippotizer media server.
Sometimes gauzes were added to vary the look again, creating more layers and bringing a slightly different dimension to the studio floor.
Despite the gruelling work schedule and intense pressure with things often changing up-to-the-minute, everything went very smoothly for the recording sessions.
HSL has worked with and supported Jones since the start of his career. He comments: "HSL are always efficient and flexible whatever the circumstances. The equipment was in excellent condition as always, and I look forward to working with the company and people for years to come."
Jones’ Gaffer was Noel ‘Roly’ Smith and the systems/LED tech was Chris Banks. The series director was Ronw Protheroe.
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