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Robert Juliat SpotMe for National Theatre’s “Under Milk Wood”

Lighting designer Tim Lutkin employed two Robert Juliat SpotMe performer tracking systems in their first double use at the National Theatre on this summer’s production of Dylan Thomas’ “Under Milk Wood”.

“Tim used SpotMe in a different style, hardly using the actual light output from the front followspots, but using instead the positional data generated by SpotMe to control the moving lights to follow the actors”, explains Jack Champion, National Theatre’s lighting supervisor for “Under Milk Wood”. “He assigned one SpotMe system to lead actor Michael Sheen and the other SpotMe to cover the rest of the cast, and could use SpotMe to cherry pick the lights he needed at any certain moment, picking the actors up and ‘releasing’ them when he wished.”

“This way he could, for example, follow an actor to a position with moving lights, then instead of fading off that set of lights to pick up someone else, he could remove just some of those moving lights from SpotMe control to leave them covering the stationary actor, then assign different lights to SpotMe with which to pick up another actor”, says Champion. The followspot operator was in control of the movement at any time.

The SpotMe systems were supplied to the National Theatre by Ambersphere Solutions, Robert Juliat’s exclusive UK distributor. “Under Milk Wood” ran from 16 June to 24 July 2021.

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