The advantages in using SkyPanels in this play

SkyPanels proved beneficial for the production. Technically seen, they were the best solution for allowing an absolute evenly lit plafond and yet using from the same direction a single ARRI Compact 4kw lighting fixture to add a certain brilliance. In addition, the SkyPanels are also very good in terms of their weight and ease of use; they are easy to move in daily assembly and disassembly.

Artistically the SkyPanels allow such subtle and smooth color temperature changes in the range of white light, that it is really a joy to work with them during the lighting design process!

Annette ter Meulen, lighting designer

Basically, there is a deliberate dramaturgical tension between the light of the plafonds (HMI and LED in the daylight spectrum) and the light for the performers, which is primarily provided by alley light (PAR64 spotlights unfiltered or filtered with Lee 201). The color temperature of the PAR64 fixtures is 3200 Kelvin maximum unfiltered, that of the ARRI Compact 4kw is 5600/6000 Kelvin and that of the SkyPanels varies between 5600 and 10000 Kelvin depending on the scene.

Therefore, it is possible to produce an approximately similar color temperature with the PARs filtered in Lee 201 and the SkyPanels / the ARRI Compact 4kw . The figure on stage is in a uniform white light space, which is experienced by the audience as cool and rather objective.