In addition to specifying and installing the full overhead production lighting rig, the most challenging aspect of the brief from lighting designer David Atkinson was to provide a two-colour, cross-fading system that was small enough to fit behind the set, but powerful enough to provide a strong colour wash for the set's main branded light wall backdrop.
The light wall was constructed using 22 Anytronics Anycolour lightboxes controlled via a DMX distribution unit and lighting console. To achieve the clean cross-fade between the light wall's distinctive blue and amber colour washes, a custom solution was provided by replacing the light boxes' normal four-colour RGBY fluorescent tubes with two blue and two amber. Other equipment employed in the installation included a custom internally wired lighting grid, 16 Cosmolite DMX softlights and six 4 x 1250W Powerbar dimmers.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
