Editorial

摘要

I will fess up now that when I was told that sports lighting was the topic of the latest ILP Professionals in Partnership (PIP) Forum, I wasn't exactly overjoyed. The prospect of sitting taking notes for three hours on how to floodlight a school gym or local stadium wasn't my idea of a good time. It actually turned out to be one of the most fascinating that the ILP has organised so far (Lights, cameras, action, p28). What made it more interesting, of course, was that it centred on lighting for broadcasting. This has been an area of weakness where guidance is concerned as was made painfully obvious by the Olympics in 2012. The evolution of TV and camera technology had left guidelines on the starting blocks, and fittings had to be rethought to resolve problems such as flicker that were arising throughout the design process. As lighting consultants and manufacturers listened to the television consultants and representatives of Sky and the BBC, it was clear that there was a whole realm of concerns and considerations that were revelatory to them. There was even a new and apparently more appropriate metric for colour rendering (Why TCLI measures up, p31) that it seems no one had even come across before. Probably the key message that came out was the need for more communication and consultation with the people working in the sports broadcasting arena when it comes to formulating and improving guidelines. Design, after all, is a team effort.