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Successful<br />
TV show relies on<br />
ARRI True Blue<br />
HART ABER FAIR (TOUGH BUT FAIR) is a political talk show hosted by Frank Plasberg and one of the most successful<br />
formats on German TV. Five high-ranking guests are typically confronted with questions and discussions about a recent,<br />
controversial issue in politics, economy or society. The program has been honored with numerous awards, including a<br />
German Television Award for ‘Best Information Program’, an Adolf Grimme Prize in the ‘Information and Culture’<br />
category and the Bavarian Television Prize.<br />
TOUGH BUT FAIR<br />
From January 2001, the 75-minute weekly<br />
program was aired by state-owned broadcaster<br />
ARD alternately from its Cologne WDR<br />
studio and a studio in Berlin. As of October<br />
21 st 2009, the production has found a new<br />
home in the ultra-modern TV Werft (TV dockyard)<br />
Studios, located at the East Port in Berlin.<br />
Equipping the new studio was an easy<br />
decision for Helmut Audrit, Managing<br />
Director of TV Werft: “With ARRI Lighting<br />
Solutions we were able to build on previous<br />
and very successful co-operations, like<br />
equipping our Studio 3, which hosts the<br />
SAT.1 Morning Show,” says Audrit. “We<br />
also could be assured of completing installations<br />
within the very tight time schedule<br />
the project demanded. Together with ARRI<br />
product quality and functionality, these<br />
were the deciding criteria for again relying<br />
on ARRI Lighting Solutions as a competent<br />
partner.” The lighting installation for the<br />
approximately 425 m 2 Studio 4 was designed<br />
for the production of HD programs<br />
and completed by ARRI Lighting Solutions<br />
in September 2009.<br />
Markus Eicher, the technical director of the<br />
studio, was especially impressed by the<br />
flexible grid and rail system and its 50 new<br />
ARRI True Blue pole-operated headlights,<br />
mounted on pantographs, and also by the<br />
accurate fitting of an RGB background<br />
illumination system. A new ACN network<br />
system (ETC NET3) rounds off the installation,<br />
to meet all the needs of a modern<br />
and integrated control for both the lights<br />
and the suspension system.<br />
Specific lighting effects for the set decoration<br />
are reliably and effectively integrated into<br />
a comprehensive control system. A greater<br />
number of moving heads can now be easily<br />
positioned with the new network technology.<br />
Usually the integration of moving heads<br />
requires significantly more planning, material<br />
and installation, which were not necessary<br />
in this case. Expenditure of time and costs<br />
was reduced to a minimum.<br />
Another challenge of the project was having<br />
to consider a huge variety of viewing angles,<br />
as the show is recorded in front of a live<br />
audience. As a consequence, maximum<br />
L i g h t i n g<br />
flexibility had to be achieved, as has been<br />
the case with other projects that ARRI Lighting<br />
Solutions has previously designed and<br />
installed for TV Werft. Formats such as ‘maz<br />
& more’ (SAT1 Morning Show) and ‘SAT1 –<br />
The Magazine’ have already made their<br />
HD-equipped home just next door in Studio<br />
3, within Berlin’s creative media center.<br />
Norbert Wunderlich<br />
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