Gaffer Mike Bauman Discusses Lighting Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth
Joel Coen wanted to do Macbeth. But not just any Macbeth, a black and white version inspired both by comic books and German Expressionism. The stars on screen for The Tragedy of Macbeth are Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington—but the stars in the lighting rig were ETC and High End Systems fixtures. The lighting team that put them […]
ETC’s fos/4 Panel And Fresnel Fixtures A Perfect Fit For WarnerMedia Upfronts
Middleton, WI (23 Feb 2022) – Upfronts are the biggest television event you’ve never heard of. Held in spring, they allow networks to promote their upcoming new fall lineups and convince companies to buy advertising. Each event is generally held live, with splashy guest stars and big production elements designed to impress. COVID shutdowns disrupted […]
ETC and Energy Systems Design cook up refined lighting for Justin Timberlake’s new Nashville hotspot
Nashville, TN – The Twelve Thirty Club in Nashville is full of headliners. A modern take on the supper club, the “dapper-as-hell” restaurant was developed by James Beard Award nominee Sam Fox alongside pop superstar Justin Timberlake, with architectural and entertainment lighting control designed by Energy Systems Design. The project was only possible because of […]
Build back better awards
ETC won a couple of Awards the other week. ETC’s Bespoke LED retrofit take both PLATINUM and GREEN awards at the Build Back Better Awards 2022 Ray Molony of the Build Back Better Awards speaks to James Uphoff, Electronic Theatre Controls product manager for the Source 4WRD LED retrofit which has been awarded both a Build Back Better PLATINUM and Build […]
The Number of the Best – 197 – unonovesette
Sean O’Callahan, BDM for Architectural Lighting takes a look at this highly successful Italian lighting brand… When the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza opens later this year it will be the largest archaeological museum in the world. As might be expected of a site that will house artefacts from ancient Egypt, including the complete Tutankhamun […]
ETC Joins 3LR on Voyage of Discovery at 80six
Leading video technology rental company and technical creative production specialists, 80six, recently hosted a series of Virtual Production Discovery Days at its new virtual production studio facility in Slough. The events were staged in response to the huge appetite for information about virtual production technology and techniques and allowed those in attendance to gain deep […]
ETC fos/4 Lights the Way for Pioneering High School TV Channel
Wycombe High School invests in ETC fos/4 LED panels to deliver studio and location lighting for exciting new TV Channel initiative led by Bob Massie… Wycombe High School (WHS) is an Academy Grammar school for girls, located in the Buckinghamshire town of High Wycombe. Rated by Ofsted as Outstanding, the school is a centre for […]
Unonovesette appoints 3LR Lighting
3LR Lighting Ltd, a representative for leading international manufacturers of architectural, film, entertainment and broadcast lighting and control, is pleased to confirm that it is now the sole UK manufacturer’s representative for Italian manufacturer Unonovesette. The manufacturer, based not far from the famous Monza motor racing circuit, continues a long tradition of Italian design, and […]
ETC fos/4s Add Polish to Shoeshine Homage
ETC fos/4 LED panels prove the perfect complement to natural light for cinematographer Lily Grimes during the shooting of art film ‘Horsepolish’, an artist’s response to de Sica’s neorealist 1946 masterpiece ‘Shoeshine’… Lily Grimes is a freelance cinematographer working in film and television. Having enjoyed sixteen years working in international news and documentary as a […]
Lighting Within Without a Hitch
ETC Source Four units prove pivotal for challenging live broadcast production by Rambert… Emma Dalesman is a London-based freelance Director of Photography. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, she shoots a range of projects encompassing fiction, documentary, art films and commercials. A member of the Illuminatrix collective of female cinematographers, her narrative […]
Light emitting enterprise
You may not know the name yet, but you’ll probably know the people behind the growing UK lighting rep firm 3LR. Michael Burns looks at how the company hopes to get cinematographers to give the green light to deep red LEDs. 3LR stands for third light receptor, a reference to the third photoreceptor in the […]
Griven Appoints 3LR Lighting
3LR Lighting Ltd, representative for leading international manufacturers of architectural, film, entertainment and broadcast lighting and control, is pleased to confirm that it is now the sole UK manufacturer’s representative for Griven. The Italian manufacturer, founded in 1990, produces a range of exterior architectural lighting that is held in the highest esteem all over the […]