baton striplights

the striplight softboxes were built for cinematographer christine maier on the feature show "the itty bitty titty committee".

we built a bunch of them in different sizes. (6light, 3light,2light and singles) usually, i had some 250 diffusion on it. if we needed some extra punch within the soft light, we cut some diffusion off. we used them almost on every night interior where we had low ceilings. on very small sets we boxed them with showcards to keep the spill of the walls. due to the light weight, we could easily hang them on bailing wire. if we wanted to wrap the light around the face, (using a 6light) we used some higher wattage (150W) as a backlight and reduced the wattage on the bulbs the further it wrapped around the face. the light naturally keeps the tonal range of the practical in the frame, which makes it in this case easier to handle than a kinoflo. beautiful easy light!