Strobelights, Fog Machines and Standards

There's a trend in Australian tv to not rehearse or sometimes even care about this sort of thing - in an environment with more time, rehearsals and creative direction camera angles and positions would be moved and operated to avoid such an effect but as is always the case with the Helpmanns they use whatever gear and venue is available and cheap (or free) to stage the event... usually always within a limited timeframe too. That said, there's been a huge number of cases where it's been proven that SoftLED looks like crap on camera already....! rich