Last year, InStyle LED supplied lights and expertise to Let’s Be Evil, the hot new British sci-fi thriller directed by Martin Owen.

The film finished shooting at the end of last year. Producer Jonathan Willis has just told us that post-production and editing are nearly complete now, and Let’s Be Evil will be out soon.

Martin Owen describes his film as, “a science-fiction thriller about augmented-reality glasses. It’s basically about the U.S. government deciding to test these glasses on a group of young children, and we follow three adult chaperones who go into this facility; they’re purely there to keep an eye on the kids. However, the augmented reality starts to have an adverse effect…”

Lights, action!

The production’s location – deep inside a decommissioned nuclear bunker at Kelvedon Hatch, Essex – used a massive 240 metres of our 15-watt RGB LED strip lights. Cinematographer Chase Bowman’s team set up a wireless DMX network for control, enabling the lighting to be programmed on-set through a laptop, rather than from a lighting desk inconveniently out of sight of the action.

The lighting design makes full use of the RGB LEDs’ colour-changing functions. At the beginning, the underground location is split into two lighting zones (blue and yellow) – but as the story develops, Chase explains, “the colour rules go out the window and the facility is a rainbow of pulsing and fading colour.”

This blue-sector bedroom is lit by eight 2-metre LED fixtures, four horizontal and four vertical. The vertical strips ran a repeated cycle of colours, from cyan to magenta, while the horizontals were set to blue all the time to keep the effect from being visually overwhelming.

With a cast that includes Isabelle Allen (Les Miserables) and Kara Tointon (EastEnders, Mr Selfridge), Let’s Be Evil will be released very soon. We’re excited to see it!

Read our earlier blog-post on the production here.