Lighting Technology Group has provided equipment for the newly-launched Well Being television channel and website from Boots and Granada that offers information and advice on all aspects of personal well-being. The three-year run of programmes is produced at Yorkshire Television in Leeds with Peter Hardman as lighting director. Equipment supplied by Lighting Technology includes 20 Brightline 1.4d four-lamp phase control dimmable units, complete with accessories such as broad field screens and colour frames plus Osram Studioline 3200k lamps. Further equipment includes 30 Strand Quartzcolor Studio 1k pole-operated fixtures, 15 ETC Source 4 Pars with barndoors and six Dennard pantographs. Peter Hardman detailed the project: "The brief was to light YTV’s Studio 3 in such a way that any action could be shot from most angles and in any part of the set. No lighting expertise would be available, nor adjustment time after the ‘on air’ day. For a 12-hour, five-day, three-year shoot, fluorescent softlights, with their low power consumption and low heat output were the obvious answer. The studio was to be operational within less than three weeks, and after Lighting Technology’s Andy Dodd had demonstrated the Brightline I had no doubt that they would fit the bill. They were delivered from the US in just two weeks and have performed well, producing the level of base light required, about 300 lux, in the manner required." The programme is available on Sky digital, Ondigital and at http://www.wellbeing.com.
