Portable Light Modifiers: Fast Flags / Road Rags / PortaFrames Overview
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This Video Covers: 🎥 Portable lighting modifier kids like Westcott Fast Flags, Matthews Road Rags, and Impact PortaFrames. I discuss their use, benefits, downsides, costs, and demonstrate their results.
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Question of the week: Do you think the significant savings is worth the additional time to assemble these?
We store our film gear in our house, so space is a premium. That being said, we don't yet have a use for something like this. I use blackfoil if I need to shape the light at the source, gels to diffuse, and distance or reflection off of walls, ceilings, or one of the rolling mirrors our filming space has to attenuate light.
Then again, our lights are a combination of DMX-controlled PARs and a pair of GVM panels, but the bulk of the lux we can throw on a scene are cheap BLE-controlled landscape lights with dimmers that absolutely do not work for video. We have to get pretty creative with how we light a scene.
The rolling mirror sounds really cool! I actually have a future video planned about some lighting tricks that can be done with mirrors.
With that mix of gear I bet you have to get creative, but it sounds like a nice mix of tools to get creative with!
@@TrentonHoshikoCinematography they're huge mylar panel mirrors, roughly 5' tall and 8' wide, with diffuse foil on the other side. They're usually sold to ballet studios in lieu of actual glass mirrors, and they work well enough for classes and to bounce illumination around. I wouldn't film through them because there's not really a good way to clean them, so they stop being anywhere near optically pure really fast.
That is so interesting, I never knew that existed. I can see how they would get smudged/unclean though. Thanks for cluing me in!
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There must be a better design for setting these up faster.
Thanks! They only take ~70 seconds to setup and ~30 seconds to tear down (including unpacking/repacking), so it isn't too bad overall (especially for the savings), but only having 2 frames with this kit is where it adds time having to switch them out. I can't wrap my head around why they'd only include 2 frames 🤦♂️😂
i have some of these but i must be doing something wrong. When i put them in my c-stand trying to block overhead lights, they just rotate down. I cant tighten the c-stand enough to keep them held up sideways. Does it take a special type of knuckle to grip them correctly?
I don't have that issue when they are clamped properly, but I do have 2 thoughts that could help:
1. For your knuckle, does it have multiple sizes of attachment holes? What I use mine on in this video is an impact c-stand/gobo arm and the knuckle has the large size for babypin type accessories, but there is also a smaller diameter hole that is perpendicular to the large one. That hole is what I use for these flags; you do have to tighten it down a lot though. My fast flags also have a small rectangular support bracket (not sure if it has a name) right next to the attachment point and that and be positioned inside of the grip head's largest channel, which seems to prevent rotation left and right.
2. The other aspect that might help here is making sure the weight of the accessory/arm is going "forward" and rotating tighter rather than looser. If you stand with the grip head in front of you (handle towards your chest, where if you turned it to the right it would tighten), the hole that is on the top left of the head is ideal for the accessory to be placed in with the length/weight towards the right. This way, the weight tightens it, rather than loosening it (if it was long/weight wise towards the left). This is a big safety thing that I see overlooked in c-stand lessons sometimes.
If that doesn't help, let me know and I will try and think of some other ideas! Thanks for working to make sure it is all safe! :)
If you can charge your video shooting and payoff these for a couple of jobs or even one, sure, it is great deal !
Absolutely!