RGB Lights are the FUTURE of filmmaking | Colbor CL220R RGB Light

so without a doubt in my mind RGB lights are going to be the future and the standard of lighting and film making they are incredibly flexible they can adapt to any story and any scene that you're trying to tell and in general they solve a lot of headaches when you're on set so today I'm going to be looking at the cobore cl220 r which is their 220 W RGB light and we're going to be shooting a couple scenes uh really quickly and just showing you guys how I would be using an RGB light on set so let's start with the first scam which is going to be like a interview style type of lighting setup so this is the shot that we're going to build from we have a window right here for the natural light this is with all the lights off no house lights on um which is typically how you would shoot an interview we're going to supplement in that light using the cobore CL 22R camera is set to 4650 Kelvin f4.0 now I'm at 800 ISO I think what I want to do is I'm going to ND down the camera because I want to see a little bit uh outside so this right here is four stops and four stop basically silhouette it so I'm actually going to four stop ND is not going to cut it it's going to make the inside way too dark okay yes this is two stop ND and now let's mess with this light it see it let's first get this table out really important so obviously this light right now is very warm uh it is 2700 Kelvin from a previous shoot 2700 Kelvin it is is at 100% power which is probably too bright and we're trying to go for this more natural look we're just going to use one light on an actual interview shoot you can probably use way more lights than this so first of all take this way down and let's uh set the color temperature to something closer to um the outside daylight which is probably around 56 maybe even 6,000 the outside daylight is looking a little warm so I'm going to warm up my light I was at 6,000 Kelvin this is now about 5,000 and what's cool about RGB lights is that you can set the green and red shift or green and magenta shift the second one right here is a green and magenta shift or red shift so if you go towards the green side it will make the light Greener if you go towards the opposite side it'll make it more red or more magenta so I'm going to tilt it towards uh green just because I think looking at the daylight coming out from the window it looks a little bit Greener I don't have a color meter thing I'm just going to eye it which is kind of inaccurate but gets the job done cool let's actually frame it up that works okay so we have this nice light coming in from uh the side right now so it is set at 22% power and we are at a 4550 Kelvin and then with a -3 green shift and the idea with this light right here is to make it look like a believable source of light that's coming in from this window that I'm you know I'm being actually lit lit by the window so the light right now is about it's about 60° maybe even 70° away from me that just helps getting that light on this side of the face maybe it's ever so slightly wrapping around if you want the light to be more frontal what you would do is move it from from like a 70° angle all the way to like a 45° angle which I can do right now something like this would make the light wrap a little bit more around my face so one of the strengths of the RGB lights is being able to one set the color temperature but two also more importantly to shift the magenta or the green just so that it matches better with the ambient light in your environment this looks nice um and this is at 10% this would be like kind of like the final interview look very fast interview look maybe I could add like a backlight here or like a side light or anything like that if I had the space or the lights so then this would be the interview style right here so I would be talking to someone off camera maybe right there um and this is the final look look okay next situation that we're going to try and recreate is this one um now you might be thinking W what is this um this is based off of a shot that I saw from sakario it's one of the opening shots opening scenes where Emily Blunt's character is in a house and she walks up to this window that has like this red cloth over it and as she walks towards window you see this red light washing over her face which is kind of sick it was a cool motivated light source and obviously the light on her face is not coming from the window it's from some light source above her eyes that's shining down on her I thought I would recreate something like that but instead of the red cloth which I don't have uh I'm using this incredibly pink backdrop with broad daylight coming in through the window and that's sort of like giving me this uh this key okay now that we have the contact this light is already doing a lot like it's bouncing a lot of that pink into my face but we're going to enhance that with a RGB light and again this is where the light placement is so let's go set that up Okay cool so we're going to go back into the cobore studio app and we're going to change this from a CCT to a color so I'm going to pick a hue and conveniently there is already a pink setting and so we're going to push up the intensity all the way to 100% And also if this light doesn't match exactly what we're going for then we can do something like pick a color and then we're going to do the eye dropper down here actually and then we're going to point at a certain light source let's go with this uh kind of so I've repositioned the light in my shot to look more like something like this we are going to go to the eye dropper tool again and then we're going to hit retry and then we're going to pick this color right here and this should match a little bit better going to bump up that saturation just a little bit so this is completely off no light whatsoever and then we're going to slowly slowly turn it up maybe to about 80% right here and once you're in the ey dropper tool you can slightly change the Hue of the light source after you've captured it through the camera and then over here you see that I've already added plus 5% on the saturation and then intensity I'm just going to play around with it until I find something that I think works so maybe something like this where the light color is going to match that pink from that background right there and so using RGB lights this will get us way way closer and much faster towards the color that we would want before if you were to use just a by color or a regular fixed color temperature light um you would have to use things like gels and gels are just basically things that will change the color temperature of the light you attach it over the light for example if I wanted the light to be green you would have to tape a piece of green gel over the light and that would change the color you can already kind of tell like if I put it over the light SS right there you can see that it's turning it Way Green so this is another way that I would use an RGB light as a motivated light source all right so this last scene that we're going to do is a TV simulated lighting scene where let's say you have a character that's sitting in bed watching TV maybe it's at night time maybe it's in the middle of the afternoon but it's a dark room and this lighting setup usually works much better if you are in a darker environment so if I turn off my house lights this is what it kind of looks like and then I believe on the camera I also have a TW stop ND filter on top of it just to uh make the room a little bit darker and it's set at 4650 Kelvin and then we add in our own lights and then this has a rectangular soft box on it versus the parabolic one the circle one my idea my thought process is well if a TV is rectangular feel like the light source that is coming out of the light should also be in a rectangular is shape instead of like an oval shaped and on the soft box I also have the honeycomb grid on it I'm pretty sure the room is dark enough but if not I have set up the little black negative fill that's going to be probably closer to this side of my face this light is positioned kind of off to the farther side of me so I have a little bit more contrast when I actually turn it on and shine it on my face it's going to give me a little bit more contrast let's actually strike it right now and we're going to open the coore studio app and then we're going to go from the color tab into the effect tab right here and down here you can set different lighting effects or lighting modes there's a bunch over here the one that I'm going to go to is the TV one what's cool is that you can actually set a color that you want to be playing on the light itself so if I turn off the house lights let's go with a bluish color and so you can actually set the the Hue the precise Hue and the saturation on the slider if you wanted to but I'm going to go into the Color Picker and maybe choose something like a very desaturated light blue or again you can open your camera and choose a certain color if you wanted to so I'm going to go back to the color wheel set to something maybe like this confirm and right now it is at a rate of one which is going to be very slow so if you want to have a faster flickering effect you would just change the rate higher and you can also change the intensity to be completely random which I think works really well the rate set it to be random the intensity said it to be random as well and then that way you can get a very accurate lighting effect now we're going to actually set up the shot and then see how this lighting works on my face cool and this is how these shots looks like and as you can see if I look straight towards where my TV is the light is not directly headon to me like you can still get some Shadow on this side of my face just so that we can get a little bit of contrast and so this is like one of my favorite things about an RGB light is the way that it can change colors really quickly and also have these types of different effects that you can use really quickly and what makes an RGB version of the LED lights really useful you can go into the app and you can choose a random IED color so you don't have to necessarily set this to like this blue color that I have right now we're going to hit random on the color and now it's it's like I'm watching like Blade Runner or something uh with this like pink yeah and this is not bad like this is what you would typically see in like a movie or a show where the character is actually uh watching television or you know if you had someone in a movie theater this is kind of like how that would look like as well I mean not going to lie this looks pretty convincing RGB lights you're able to set a very spef specific color and with these flickering effects these different types of lighting effects that you can do within the light itself it makes it very easy to simulate whatever type of uh scenario that you're looking for RGB lights definitely are going to be the future of film making because of how easily you're able to set up the light and get it running through your phone once these RGB lights reaches the same output as an HMI or like a Tungsten light I think Productions in general are just going to switch straight over to RGB lights you don't like the light oh you don't like it okay all right well I think it's time to end the video then hit subscribe leave a like let me know if you guys have any questions down in the comments I'm going to tear down these lights before w-e eats me we will see you guys in the next video