A recently worked with the gaffer Alex Sprenger on a music video. We worked for the two award winners Adrian Bidron the cinematographer and director Rupert Höller. The rest of the team was also really solid and good company . I wanted to give a quick breakdown of the set up we built for the studio.

Here is how we built the soft box: Our key light

Our first step was to build about a 12 meter truss. We then placed them into two easy ups in order to be flexible and move the soft box to the liking of Alex and Adrian.

We then rigged 4x aperture novas in a square formation facing down. We connected to them via crmx with a moonlite. We did this so Alex can connect to them and control them via blackout

We then rigged an empty 8 by 8 frame to the truss. Parallel, about 1.5 meters from the frame we attached another 8 by 8 frame via 4x ratchet straps. At about 1.5 meters from the lamps this frame had a 8 by 8 magic cloth and a snap grid. The magic cloth and distance plays a great roll in turning this over head essentially into an 8 by 8 uniform even source. Magic cloth and full grid tend to do a great job at spreading light source’s lumens. So now we had a large rgb plain above our set with lots of flexibility.

We then began to make our skirt with duvetyne in order to make sure that there was no spill. We even needed to put black duvetyne over the top of our soft box. This step shouldn’t be over looked.

Once our skirt was completed we then were able to raise out soft box above the intended set.

Back ground

For the background we rigged a moving head just behind the intended area for out soft box. From here alex was essentially able to point and move the moving head to his liking. In addition to being rgb this lamp can zoom, strobe, flash and many other features. It even has internal gobos and shapes avaible. He was controlling and using this lamp with Black Out on his Ipad.