juny wrote:
Your last comment has a point. I believe that the increased lighting
has something to do with making sure that the live audience can see
the debaters, because some of the seats are farther away and it is
more difficult to see if the lighting is poor to average.

It has to do with television. In the old days, cameras weren't very
sensitive and enormous lighting was needed just to make halfway decent
pictures. But even with today's immensely more sensitive cameras, a
set that isn't brightly lit has a "cheap" look to the viewer. Shadows
are for soap operas and night scenes.

(Remember too that studio cameras are designed to maximize quality and
ruggedness, not light sensitivity. Many home camcorders are *much* more
sensitive than most studio cameras.)

Even in movies, everyone's seen behind-the-scenes shots where, in BRIGHT
sunlight, crew people are holding up reflectors to put even *more* light
on subjects and to stifle shadows.

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