Company Information

The Company

The Lightin up company is one of New Zealand 's leading suppliers of lighting equipment to the film and Television Industries. The company consists of three fully rigged lighting trucks and one combined Lighting /generator truck plus one stand alone 150kva gen-set and a comprehensive dry hire gear list which is consistently being upgraded and improved.

The Lightin up Company has been in the film business for over 15 years and we have successfully provided equipment and service to several of New Zealand's largest Lighting projects and are involved in the International and local Drama market on an on going basis. We are presently operating in Queenstown on seasonal requirements, with a Auckland workshop and the main Wellington premises in Miramar minutes from the Wellington studios.   

We have four permanent staff including Company director Danny Williams whose resume you will find on this web site, as well as having several of the countries leading Gaffers who have a preference to use the Lightin-up company for supply of equipment and services. With the other three permanent staff covering areas of office management and pricing, workshop maintenance and the assembling of equipment kits,  repairs and custom builds for special requirements most areas of lighting production needs are catered too in house. A snap shot of the company’s main areas and equipment inventory is accessible via this web site www.lightin-up.com 

Over the past few years the headline projects the Lightin-up Company have been involved with and a brief breakdown follows;

King Kong

Big Primate

2005 26 weeks Minitures Main Lightin suppiler

Gaffer Dave Brown

DOP Richard Bluck

2004/2005 14 weeks Second Unit Main Lighting supplier

Gaffer Danny Williams

DOP Richard Bluck

Viacom

     2003     Principle lighting supplier for their Main & Second units .

The 10 week filming included locations such as Wellington and the

 Central North Island of New Zealand

             Director: Steven Brill        Gaffer : Dave Brown

Three Foot Six  

2003    Principle lighting supplier for their Miniatures I & J    Stages (Lava) 12 weeks Duration. Gaffer:  Gerald Morse 

2001    Supplied Lighting equipment and distribution to “V” stages Caras Galadhom and Lighting Trucks with Hmi Packages.

2001  Location Lighting trucks with Hmi Package.

Weta Work Shop  

2003 Principle Supplier  for  Lighting  and Distribution Hmi &  Tungsten  for Blue Screen in Wellington NZ

        Director: Peter Weir        Gaffer : Danny Williams.

Mountain High Productions 

       Director: Martin Campbell

       D.O.P: David Tattersell.

       Lighting Consultant :  Danny Williams

1999 - 2000 Principle supplier of Lighting and Distribution Hmi & Tungsten.

The Lightin up Company prevailed against international lighting supply companies in securing this contract. The wisdom of choosing a local supplier became very evident early on in production , schedule changes, Weather, additional short term requirements for the shoot together with our local knowledge and readily available inventory proved to be an asset. 

Production was scaled up from a location based HMI package to a customized fully rigged, dimmable studio package which included a unique portable 400amp distribution system. This ultimately allowed flexibility in production enabling to shoot virtually anywhere at any time. 

The production Vertical Limit wrapped up in New Zealand in early March 2000. 

Local Production

On the local front Lightin up supplied lighting equipment and kitted a truck for "Stickmen" 

Director : Hamish Rothwell   D.O.P : Nigel Bluck  Gaffer: Mike Slater

With our comprehensive dry hire list we were able to supply a lighting package that was compact and flexible which is always quite important with the domestic budgets. 

Other Local Production companies that we have been proud to supply lighting equipment to are.

Cloud 9 “Atlantis High” 11 weeks, “Revelations Gaffer: Gerald Morse ” 11 Weeks  ( Tribe 4 &5  Revelations  in association with Satellite lighting) both 16 weeks Gaffer: Gerald Morse 

Kahukura's. Fish Skin Suit 2001.  Hopeless Series 26 Weeks 2001/2002, and Crime Stories 2002, For Good 2002   Akadio Insane 2002, Crime Stories 2002

Big House Pictures. Willy Nilly.  2002 and 2003 

Television Commercials

We are active in supplying Lighting through out both the North and South Island . We have been associated with some large scale overseas and Local Commercials in association with Local production companies such as Silverscreen  Productions , Cherokee , Flying Fish, Shoot New Zealand. 

Please see Dry hire for our Lighting and Distribution stock List.

 Lighting and Generator Trucks

The truck is available to other Gaffers as approved by Danny Williams

The trucks statistics are;

Generator Type Viking generator delivering 25amps per phase, or 90kw total load

Weight: Type 19 Tonne

Size 11m long, 3.6m wide 2.25 high

Reg. No MORELX

Shiner is mainly operated by Danny Williams/Greg Nalder/ Adrian Hebron/Gerald Morse.

While Greg is based out of Wellington he works anywhere in New Zealand .

The trucks statistics are;

Truck Type Scania

Weight: 16 Tonne

Size 10m long, 2.4 wide, 3.0 high

Reg. No OP5823

Power Up is a generator/truck unit. The Truck is currently based in Auckland .

However the unit is available for use throughout New Zealand . 

       The truck/generator statistics are;

Generator Type 150 KVA Cat Super quiet Genset

Truck Type Ford N5032 1985 Truck.

Weight: 19 Tonne

Size 9 m long, 2.5 wide, 3.6 high

Reg No LZ9935

  Iveco High Top

The Lightin Up company  Van Kit is has be developed for the smaller productions

eg , Video, Table top shoots , Stills etc. 

The lighting Kit provided is an example, which can be further customized to suit each particular shoot. 

Please refer to web page luxsin for  example of a lighting configuration

In addition the company has the capablitily of customizing a further three lighting packages Studio and Location.

As a starting point please check out these examples of customized gear lists below and let us know how we can help with your production lighting requirements .

           Stickmen's gear list  

Bus Stop gear List

         Fish Skin Suit