Name that DIY KIno Rig

[Michael Panfeld]

I was watching a show tonight and I noticed they were using a 4 x 4 open frame with four 4-foot Kino tubes taped to each side to create a diamond-shaped DIY fixture. It was hung between two C stands with a point of the diamond pointing up.
Camera was shootig through the middle of the open frame. KInda like a giant ring light. Made a cool diamond-shaped glint in the actor's eyes.
Is there a name for this rig?

 

[chad vachter]

i think its called , soon to be copied and used . great idea,

 

[Richard Harrison]

Here they used a triangle:
http://nofilmschool.com/2012/06/anatomy-scene-one-click-away-part-1/

 

[Christopher Mills]

very accustomed to seeing the diamond shapped rig as an on-dolly rig to surround camera on music videos... sort of a super eyelight..
also seen cross shaped ones used in vampire movie or two...

 

[Matt Ryan]

Have even made pyramid's of kino's to place talent inside of. There are a ton of configurations with kino's you can make.

 

[Michael Panfeld]

Ha. That's great. Maybe an Isreali film can make a Star of David with 6 Kino tunes and make that symbol show up in the actor's eyes.

So do any of these rigs have a name?

 

[Matt Ryan]

They are just "kino rigs." You can use these to screw into any suface to mount kino's http://www.filmtools.com/kiflotcl24pa.html
and these to mount to stands as single tubes http://www.filmtools.com/kinoclamp.html.
There are also these that I use all the time for temporary applications http://www.filmtools.com/kifloadmoand.html to mount anywhere.

You can basically make any shape or configuration you can think up with a little bit of ingenuity.

 

[Michael Panfeld]

Matt: thanks. I've got those. Those are fancy. The diamond rig I saw was way stripped down: bare lamps taped to the open frame with some 1" gaff tape about 4 iinches long, barely enough to hold it in place. Just the single harness on the ends and then tying into a ballast via a single (green) kino head cable. Super simple.