GIVES US A BREAK BBC TV One Good Stroke Deserves Another DIRE BY DAVID REYNOLDS

directed by david reynolds.this popular series, shot on 16mm, was great fun to shoot. Robert Lindsay and Paul McGann were a great double act to shoot. Also look out for a young leslie manville. I loved lighting the snooker scenes with lots of uplight as if reflected from the baize. Film stock then was a maximum of 100asa so i didn't have the sensitivity of modern day digital camera to pick them. Instead i use troughs of hot lighting below the tables. Everyone smoked in those day so i used smoke as an atmospheric lighting device. I sold the producers on using the recently introduced Louma Crane for the big sequence at the end. I believe it was the first time it was used on a BBC TV production.