UV gels

james folkes wrote: oh well done, that is indeed they. hmi lamp i see, certainly explains why it was bright. i can't remember off the top off my head but hygrarium medium-arc-length iodide - as i once learnt hmi stands for - has one of the highest lumen outputs for watts input of any discharge lighting. hygrarium being the old school name for mercury, so it's basically a hard-line mercury vapour lamp and similar to those used for moonlight shooting in the movie industry. i have played with a 6kw hmi working on a film and it was impressively bright, i remember doing the maths and working out it was equivalent to about 36,000 watts of tungsten incandescent lighting.  arri, the german company responsible for the unit, also make this rather pleasing 18 kw device, so that's something like the light output of 108,000 watts of conventional tungsten lighting from one bulb. mental... james.

those and if you look carefully the atomic strobe were used to simulate firework bursts in one of the earlier scenes

aye, that is they. proper kit, beautiful things aren't they! very light for quite how large they are too. i quite enjoyed my little job as a best boy, but i wasn't quite up for slavishly devoting myself in the manner required to break into the industry. shame really, it was right up my street.