ARRI Lighting behind the scenes of the brand new BTV media convergence studio in Beijing

Beijing Television is one of the most influential broadcasters in China. The group has ten primary channels and produces content in Chinese from arts to sports, from finance to  lifestyle, and from news to children’s programming. News broadcast has come into an age of media convergence. Media fusion is not just a trend, it’s a reality. The Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, SARFT, and The Publicity Department of the CPC Beijing Committee attach great importance to the BTV media convergence center project.

For this important project, BTV invited the famous international lighting designer, Nicholas Hutak to help with designing the lighting system. His expertise was instrumental starting from the first concept discussions. In helping to choose the best fixtures, he aided with field testing, with comparing with various models, and with adjusting their final position. For example, when choosing models, Nicholas arranged to have different models from different brands on set for testing and comparison. Among them, Nicholas greatly admired the ARRI LED portfolio, especially L10-C lamphead and SkyPanel S60-RP soft light. Considering that the studio has a large area and a presenter’s space that expands two floors, the ARRI fixtures were able to provide a strong light source with a power consumption of only 400W. “We are quite satisfied with the lighting intensity. And the lighting quality is just fantastic with TLCI (Television Lighting consistency Index) higher than 92. The S60-RP using remote phosphor technology even reaches 98,” mentioned Nicholas.