ROME – For the Italian TV variety show I Migliori Anni (The Best Years), broadcast from RAI production studios, director of photography Marco Lucarelli's rig includes nearly 90 Clay Paky effect lights include Alpha Profile 1200s, Alpha Spot HPE 1200s and Alpha Wash 575s. The show, directed by Maurizio Pagnussat and hosted by Carlo Conti, features contestants who perform music from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Home viewers then vote on "the best years."
Riccardo Bocchini designed the set, Di&Di is the lighting company and the console operators are Enzo Lustri and Adriano Barbanzolo.
The two-part stage, connected with a wide central gangway, is where competing artists perform, surrounded by the orchestra. The audience is seated on stands at the end of the studio and in two balconies, and the jury and VIP guests watch from six "windows" on several levels.
Lucarelli used the Clay Paky fixtures strategically. The Alpha Spot HPE 1200s were positioned above the balconies and used for stage effects, the wash lights indirectly lit the audience, and the profiles' beam-shapers projected colored light onto white sheets that separate the balconies.
"We exploited the full potential of the Alpha Profiles," said Lucarelli. "We used them to sculpt the light and highlight limited portions of the scene, which would have been impossible with any other kind of light. The result was that we were able to create an extremely colorful patchwork of images – even illuminating parts that would normally have been in the shadows – and create a bright oval studio perimeter with strong impact."
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