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Lighting for the show is provided by lighting designer Chris Kempton, with equipment being supplied by Richard Martin Lighting.
The most striking feature of the Bognor or Bust set is the back wall. Made up of 24 screen-printed gauze panels, each panel is individually backlit by a floor mounted VL 1000 TS fixtures. Kempton’s decision to use VL 1000’s came from his need to use a framing unit that would be as silent as possible. “You never know who is going to answer a question so all seven mics need to be left open; we needed a unit that wouldn’t be picked up by them,” he says.
The predominantly white background also played a role in Kempton’s decision to use VL 1000’s. The tungsten source created a more usable range of colours for the style of the show. “You can achieve the most fantastic colour of brown something I don’t think you can do with a discharge lamp.”
Providing colour washes across the floor and onto the contestants, are five ChromaBanks built under a set piece in the centre of the floor. The motivation for using LED battens was simple: “They’re cool; anything else would have been too hot.”
Kempton has also made innovative use of LEDs in the scoring system, having built 6 300mm ChromaStrips into each desk. This means that when a contestant presses their buzzer the desks can light up in different colours depending on which round is being played. Using ChromaStrips also enables Kempton to create chase sequences during the show.
Overall this colourful show with its humorous mix of current affairs and host Angus Deayton’s biting wit is proving popular with audiences and certainly guarantees more fun than a weekend in Bognor.
7th October 2004
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