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Coemar Infinity Family Used for Dramatic Effect on UK TV Quiz Show
Entertainment lighting specialist White Light, UK distributor for lighting manufacturer Coemar, recently teamed up television lighting supplier Richard Martin Lighting to let lighting director Will Charles sample Coemar’s Infinity range of products – Spot, Wash and ACL – while lighting the UK version of Minute To Win It, a new TV challenge show based on a U.S. show of the same name.
Produced by Shine TV for ITV2, the show was shot at BBC TV Center’s TC6 studio. Part of the challenge facing set designer Simon Kimmell and lighting director Will Charles was the production’s desire to feel like it was hosted in a sports stadium rather than a 600 square meter studio.
To help with this, Charles deployed high-output Coemar fixtures, making use of Infinity Spot Ms, Infinity Wash Ms and Infinity ACL Ms. “I used the Infinity Spots as ultra-wide backlights for the team entrances, the Infinity Washes as colored audience front washes, and the Infinity ACL for creating ‘fingers’ of light framing the downstage screens,” Charles recalled.
“The lights certainly helped us fulfill the brief; the producers at Shine seemed happy that we had produced a look as good if not better than the productions already on air in the U.S., Germany and Australia. There are usually many things I would change in hind-sight. But for this show my team of David Bishop on moving lights and Catalyst, Oliver Lifely on conventionals along with the excellent lamp techs from Richard Martin and the BBC racks engineers and sparks crew created something to be proud of. I’d certainly recommend these lights, and would be happy using them again.”
Coemar Infinity M fixtures offer CMY color mixing plus a CTO wheel and color wheel. The Infinity Spot M has twin gobo wheels, twin prisms, 10-44 degree zoom range, iris and strobe; the Infinity Wash M has a 6-42 degree beam range, beam shaper and moon flower aerial effect, while the Infinity ACL M offers an ACL beam-type effect complete with variable beam and aerial effects.
