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Would anyone care to share images of great interview composition
I work for a corporate company and lately we’ve been shooting more documentary style projects. I can compose a decent interview by following rule of thirds, ensuring the scene is well lit, and choosing an interesting background; however, I haven’t gotten to the point where I shoot awesome interviews…interviews that really pop and stand out.
Would anyone care to share some shots of really well done interviews that I can study?
Thanks!
Rob Grauert, Jr.
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I wouldn’t say these are GREAT, Rob… but I think they are solid.
This is a pic that I posted a few days ago in another thread. The discussion was about quick down-n-dirty interview lighting, and specifically about backlight placement (and how a lower more-to-the-side backlight can give a nice little splash across the side of the face, sometimes a bit more natural and interesting than a three-point-lighting look).
For a Chamber of Commerce job we recently had to go to 60 different businesses and interview people there… so many that we had to do them really fast, run-n-gun lighting with just two or three battery-powered daylight LED instruments.
If I had plenty of time I’d probably do them a bit different/better, but these are some quickies…
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Here’s another fast composition/lighting image from an old post, something I posted a long time ago.
This is my quickie trick with just one instrument for lighting/comp when you are dealing with a reasonably large daylight space. These weren’t interviews, but they could be…
I use a single 1200w HMI high and to the rear and one side of the subject… it blasts into a white 4×4 bounce as the key, and I steal a little bit of the light directly on the subject as a hair/back/side light…
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Thanks, Terry. These are some great examples =)
Rob Grauert, Jr.
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Since Todd talked about practicals I’ll touch a little on green screen work. Here is sample of GC work where I like to take into consideration what the practicals are and how I can recreate them in post.
Here I put a hair light with a high yellow on the subject and then in post added a yellowish glow to make it look like it was being generated from the location. I also added a complementary blue light behind the Image in the background to create a pleasant contrast with his skin color.
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Those are nice examples by Todd and Emre. Here’s an interview I posted a couple of years ago that somehow became the most viewed corporate video on the COW. LIke Todd, I like a backlight that splashes on the side of the face.
I was stuck in a lunchroom with no interesting backgrounds at all, so I used a CDM fresnel to create a gradient on a blank wall. I used a fluorescent bank for the key and led panels for the fill and backlight.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F1AFS7LufVg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DF1AFS7LufVg
Main problem with tight spaces is you can’t always make a soft background
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