rotolights for moving car shots

we built these for christine maier on the show "grbavica"

the carshot was set up so we would see the passing streetlights behind the actor. logically we wanted to see the passing streetlights on the actors face. due to the fact that it was not possible to get a trailer for our car in sarajevo we were forced to position the camera in the car next to the actor and all our lights on top of the roof! a bunch of kinoflos and two rotolights which we repositioned for each shot were rigged to a small grid of pipes which we attached to the roof. basically we built a housing for an upgraded version of an emergency light. we rebuilt the lens so we would get more punch, then gelled the housing with a combination of 1/2 CTO, 1/4 plus green and a combination of 250 and brushed silk so we would get more spread form the little distance that we had from the roof of the car down to the actors face. the motor of the light was hooked up to a seperate dimmer so we could sync up with the passing streetlights. the power came from a small genny we had on the pickup pulling the actors car.