My style of lighting is such that I try to be as natural as possible. So therefore, the lights come through the windows, which is in fact happened on that particular scene and almost every other scene in this film.

On the Vincy breakfast scene, I used six lamps... six lighting units. There was a lighting unit outside each window. Outside the front windows on the scissor lifts, I had two 12K, two 12 kilowatt lights. On the scaffold platform at the side of the house, which was the back room, I had two 6 kilowatt lamps and in the rooms themselves, I had two, 12 watt lamps which I used as filler lights bouncing off polystyrene.

The first major problem, of course, was that it was on the first floor and not the ground floor. We had difficulty getting access to the windows at the back which was in fact the dining room where a lot of the scenes were played. And so for that I had to have scaffolders build a scaffold platform below the level of the windows so that I could get my lamps up onto that level.

Ref code: PM-53. Title: Lighting cameraman, Brian Tufano explains the lighting of the Vincy breakfast scene. Date: c.1994. Format: .png. Source: Source: Screening Middlemarch VHS BBC Education Pack, 1994