Rosco UK LitePads on Kilimanjiro

Last July, six adults with different disabilities set off on an amazing journey to scale Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, with product support from Rosco. The group was working with the 5 time Emmy award winning extreme cinematographer Gordon Brown shooting the project along with multi award winning composer Michael Price scoring on the mountain.

Accompanied by their individual “buddies”, a medical crew, a team of guides and porters as well as a world-class film crew, the explorers set out to demonstrate what can be achieved when people with disabilities work together to overcome their individual limitations. The project was organized by Enham, a UK charity that aims to give disabled people the opportunity to fulfill their ambitions.

INVALUABLE LIGHT SOURCE IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

To aid the filming of the feature documentary, ‘The Mountain Within’, Rosco provided the crew with 6 units of Rosco LitePad HO 305mm x 305mm and 6 units of 152mm x 152mm as well as accessories. With the LitePad’s to hand, the crew were able to conduct interviews in the dark, cramped condition of their tents late at night simply by slipping a pad into a tent pocket or, due to the fact that they generate very little heat, simply by holding it. The pads also provide a hassle-free light fill for daytime interviews.

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY.

An important issue for the documentary crew was to film in an environmentally friendly way and that for the expedition to be completely self-sustainable. The LitePads run off a DC adapter but also have a battery pack accessory, so the documentary crew used some small solar panels to charge the batteries on the pads. Due to the low wattage of even the largest pads, the crew was able to simply hook the LitePad up to any 12V battery such as those in their cameras.

LIGHT SOURCE THAT FITS IN THE POCKET.

The crew had eleven porters carrying their equipment – and those porters must have been delighted to find out how easy the pads were to pack, with each unit measuring only 0.3” (8mm)! Cinematographer Gordon Brown says that “As they take up so little room you can take them virtually anywhere, they literally fit in the pockets where you store your headlamps and reading material. They are robust, efficient, easy to use, and the fact that they fit my existing portable package perfectly is a huge plus when weight and space is so valuable in remote environments”.