Novel lighting hack at King's College Cambridge for famous TV production

[Richard Crowley]

Came across this documentary about the internationally famous BBC Radio and then TV production of "Festival of Lessons and Carols" from the chapel at King's College, Cambridge. In the middle, one of the directors shows a brilliant hack they made to gain extra lighting without disturbing the intimate, candle-lit atmosphere of the setting.

So the choir can read their music, there's a light bulb under the candle and the light comes down. And what the first lighting director and I devised was to put in a ring to raise the candle an inch or so up so that we could have a window [with diffusion] so that light could shine out from the bulb towards their [choir] faces. But it means the light (lighting their face) is coming from where you expect it. -- David Kremer, Director

Brilliant (in both senses of the word)!

 

[JMartin]

Fascinating story and ingenious tip – thanks for posting this.