The SkyPanels also allow the production team to work more quickly. “If we have 20 minutes with a player, we have to set up the interview really quickly,” Regalmuto says. “We can take a SkyPanel out there and instantly we look like we installed an entire lighting set up.” Ganot points out that the ARRI SkyPanels are so easy to use that even a corporate executive (such as himself) can use them. “Not everyone here is a technical director, but even the less experienced or less technical people are able to make use of all of these assets relatively quickly, and easily,” explains Ganot. “It’s a push-and-play operation, and, for someone like me, a piece of cake.” Regalmuto notes that everyone on the team, which includes marketing and even retail, wears multiple hats. “They aren’t necessarily people who have any formal training,” he adds. “But the set up and the ARRI SkyPanels make it very easy for somebody who has no experience and no actual training to run it. That says a lot about the product itself. And the quality of the SkyPanels allows us to get a really high-quality result.”
Ganot agrees. “With the ARRI lights, we have a simple, quick turnaround time to be able to shoot a variety of different content and to have a very consistent, clean, high impact, high quality look,” he says. “We want our audience to know that they are investing in a premium product from a golf perspective. And our guests sometimes say it’s the same gear they’ve seen in TV studios, so from a brand perspective makes us feel really good that we are giving them an environment that they think lives up to the standards that we are trying to portray.”