tRotolight RL48 LED Ringlight used on SBTRKT Music Video

It's amazes me what a difference the Rotolight can make to a shot and it's these little differences that can make or break a film in my opinion.

Director and Cinematographer Ross Anderson from Dustfarm.com recently directed a fantastic music video for UK Electronic Indie-pop music group SBTRKT (pronounced SUBTRACT) for their latest track Trials of the Past . Ross Utilized the Rotolight RL48-B LED ringlight to create soft even lighting on the actress's face and that desired circular catch light in the eyes.

I've grown up with DIY mindset towards filmmaking I've built many lights, Dolly's, Jibs, mini35 adaptors and stedicams some successful, some not so much! So when I buy a piece of pro kit, instead of building or renting, it has to be something special. The reason behind buying the Rotolight RL48 was that I needed a compact light for filling in unwanted shadows on Caitlin's face on the SBTRKT shoot and it simply wasn't possible or practical to pull the fluorescents I was using any closer together. Dir. Ross Anderson.

The Cinematography, Direction and editing on this video is truly fantastic, so much so celebrity cinematographer Phillip Bloom, asked Ross Anderson to create a blog post on how the music video was made on such a small budget, including videos of the different stages of composition including behind the scenes shots.

This was a seriously impressive piece of work on every level. A music video that looked a million dollars and clearly had taken an absolutely ridiculously long time to make. Then I read that he shot on the Canon 550D, not that it really matters as I always say it's not the camera, but it's not a great camera to use for a lot of effects work, due to the well known image issues. You wouldn't know it from watching it. Phillip Bloom.

READ THE BLOG HERE

After doing a little research, I decided LED's were the way to go and stumbled onto Rotolight on the web, thinking it looked cool from the tests (even light and impressive CRI), would sit central on my camera and would do the job. Well it did the job and more! It worked so perfectly for the shots of Caitlin (it has the soft wrapping quality I love and was just so practical the inclusion of ND's, diffusion and filters show how much thought has gone into it's design too) that I ended up reaching for it time and time again during the shoot Ross Anderson.

It was a life saver on dolly shots that needed filling, close-ups outside where there was no power and I completely fell in love with the reflection of it in actor's eyes.

It's amazes me what a difference the Rotolight can make to a shot for such a little, practical light and it's these little differences that can make or break a film in my opinion.

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