FEATURE | L IGHT CONTROL
LIGHTING APP WORLD you can place a bank of lights either side of your car rig and set the speed of travelling light from one end of the car to the other, T here’s no doubt that when you have used this type of lighting control, you really don’t want to go back. More control gives you more creative flexibility and this technology is to be embraced. Johann Perry, who shot the WE FOLLOW UP LAST MONTH’S INTRODUCTION TO APP CONTROL OF LIGHTING WITH SOME NEW APPS FROM LIGHTING MANUFACTURERS ©Johann Perry
production design. Whether we could use an app for everybody I don’t know as each department has their own way of working, there’s not a huge crossover with lighting and other departments. Colour is usually mapped out with your references in the beginning,” says Perry. Not all lighting companies will invest in their own app. One particular company when asked about an app replied that they were a lighting company and not a control company. However, there is no doubt that more apps will appear and they will become more sophisticated; it’s just the nature of things.
so you can match the speed of the car by running the sequenced lights down the side. So at night, you can have very controllable lighting effects. All that can be controlled from an iPad from the cab.” App control could have also helped after Perry had chosen the Pantone colours for the look of the drama when he was trying to pin down a nineties feel. “After we had decided on our colour palette, we would send A3 copies of them to all the departments, including make up and
BBC’s Mother’s Day, which we featured last month, told us how much easier it was to light a car rig with the new technology. “We used ARRI Skypanels, but also LiteMats on Mother’s Day as they’re not as heavy as the Skypanels, but still RGB controlled. Using this set-up on a car rig is fantastic as you can put lights around your car and if you’re travelling at 30mph
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