Shooting Interviews in boring environment

[Philip Boal]

well there’s always blue-screen, so you can change out the BG to whatever you want.

or, in post, you could do split screens of the same bites but doctor up some of the images, like make it grainy, B & W, color tints, etc.

[Mark Suszko]

Answered same post in the other forum, gave several tips.

[Nectarios Leonidas]

I would use the current background and just change the angle of the camera.

Shot over head or under up on the subject. Try different angles views,
go from a close up to a medium to an extreme. change it up a little..

hope this helps

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[Marc Rolph]

I dont’ think I would consider a window background with trees boring. That’s better than a blank wall, or maybe better than a bunch of books.

This shot will all be determined by the sunlight outside, and what kind of lights you are using inside. It would be best if you could use HMI, and match the lighting indoors with the sunlight outside. This would give you the best background. If you could time your shoots to when the tree is being backlit or sidelit, that would look nice, plus would give you some seperation with your subject.

Of course changing the angles of each interview would be important, so that they don’t all look the same.

Another quickfix would be to set up some sort of background, and attach it to the wall over the window. Then you could throw different lights on the background, maybe a colored sheet, that would give you an infinite amount of possibilities.

Marc Rolph
Producer/Director
Mississippi State University

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