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JERUSALEM – Robe continues to be a popular choice of moving light for the leading Israeli TV shows, and especially with one of the country’s top lighting designers Ofer Jacobi – who specifies Robe constantly for his busy schedule of productions.
This recently includes the popular “Fly On The Millions” quiz show, recorded in Studio 4 of GG Studios, Neverelan, Jerusalem, the country’s main TV production facility. This show, broadcast in prime time on Friday night, is in its third series and will soon be rolled out in the US via NBC and also in Europe.
Contestants answering questions incorrectly are spectacularly dumped from the set via a trap door opening beneath their podium. ?
Danor Rental supplies the lighting. The Robe count includes 20 ROBIN 300E Beams, 10 ColorWash 700E ATs, six ColorBeam 2500s and 10 ColorSpot 1200E ATs.
Jacobi’s initial starting point involved conferring with the set designer Avi Fahima and the series editor. The editor explained the format and rules of the program and from that, Jacobi formulated what lighting and effects were needed where and when in the environment.
After that, he chose his fixtures.
The 10 ColorSpot 1200E ATs are backlighting each of the ‘challenging’ contestants – who stand around the main contestant who is in the middle of the set. The fixtures are used for a variety of colors and effects including the elimination moment when the contestant is ‘ejected’ promptly and unceremoniously into a foam filled pit below.
The ColorWash 700s are used for back-lighting the audience.
The 20 ROBIN 300EBeams are placed around the lower level set rings and used for aerials and assorted eye-candy. They are noticeable on camera and add drama to the elimination moments.
The six ColorBeam 2500s are also on the floor behind the contestants. They provide an alternative super-powerful layer of effects, colors and textures.
He also uses a variety of other lightsources for general and ‘white lighting,’ but the Robes are the most prominent.
All the moving lights are controlled by operator Yaron Shoosh via a CompuLite Vector Red, which is also running video content out to all the various LED panels. A CompuLite Spark 4D controls the generic lighting.
All the lighting and video cues are triggered via MIDI from the show games machine.
Jacobi has been using Robe on his shows since 2005, and has enthusiastically embraced all the many new technologies that have come online in that time.
One of the best known and most highly respected TV LD in Israel, he has been in the business 30 years and has honed the craft to a fine art. It’s a tradition that runs in the family. He follows in his father’s footsteps as Jacobi senior was originally a Director of Photography (DoP) and then a lighting designer when the term was coined, working in the movies.
Jacobi comments, “Using Robe has definitely made my life easier. I am happy especially with the new LED ranges.” He’s not using these on ‘Fly’ but has MMX Spots on the latest ‘Dancing With the Stars’ series.
