Overview
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Learn how to assemble the right gear, frame your shoot, and control the lighting on the set of a video interview. Get techniques that will flatter your subjects and your budget.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- What are the objectives?
- Things to consider before you arrive
- A basic light kit
- Light types
- Stands
- Light modifiers
- Stingers and adapters
- Shutter speed
- Aperture
- ISO
- Time of day
- Emotional tone of the interview
- Genre
- Time vs. resources
- Compromise
- Bringing the talent on set
- Interview tone and mood continuity
- Technical concerns
- Interview space as the background
- Interview backdrop
- Evaluating the space
- Finding the best angle
- Talent standing in the shot
- Key light
- Fill light
- Back light
- Lighting the background
- Lighting the talent's face
- Flagging
- Bouncing
- Dimming
- Netting
- Diffusing
- Color correcting
- Using a stand-in
- Evaluating the talent's wardrobe
- Final adjustments
- Set the eye line
- Bringing it all together
- Wrapping up
