Having provided lighting to every James Bond film since 1995’s GoldenEye, Panalux was again the exclusive supplier for SPECTRE, the latest film in the 007 James Bond franchise, both in the studio and on location.
Filmed on 35mm over eight months in more than six UK and overseas locations, was well as several stages at Pinewood Studios, SPECTRE represented Panalux’s largest project of 2015 in terms of both equipment and logistical support.
“Multiple stages – including the cavernous 007 Stage – along with extensive locations, ranging from scorching Morocco to the freezing temperatures of Solden in Austria, enabled us to demonstrate Panalux’s ability to meet the most exacting requirements both on location and in the studio,” said Panalux group technical director Chris Millard.
Panalux is a regular collaborator on big-budget Hollywood feature films and high-end TV shows shot in the UK and throughout Europe, providing lighting to Avengers, Guardians Of The Galaxy and Star Wars: Episode VII, as well as currently servicing Game of Thrones and Outlander. Panalux features an in-house R&D and product development department to build lighting, cable, power generation, rigging and grip accessories from scratch.
For SPECTRE, Panalux engineers worked closely with the film’s gaffer David Smith and lighting team to create a specialised control system for location shooting that has since been developed into a formal, proprietary Panalux desk control product to debut for hire to the global industry in 2016.
Over nearly nine months of production, Panalux supplied SPECTRE with more than 95,000 items from its extensive inventory, including LED and traditional lighting fixtures and many thousands of lengths of cabling. Fifteen Panalux generator vehicles were also required for five weeks of shooting a major action sequence along The Thames. Filming locations included Austria, Italy, Morocco, and several locations around London.
In further news, has opened Panalux Wales in Cardiff. Currently the only major lighting rental provider with a physical presence in the Welsh market, Panalux has partnered with Cardiff-based Gaffer Ceiron Jenkins to formally expand the company’s UK presence to Wales, a market attracting an increasing number of large-scale television drama and film projects.
