The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide

LIGHTING COOKBOOK 2.0

NOTES: For a formal interview with this handsome author (yours truly) that also included the interviewer, we set up one light on my face, a bold slice of red light on the shadowy rear wall to break up an otherwise flat background, and one bright light on the key prop: a giant poster of my first film book, TheShut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide. (A little subtle product placement.) For the interviewer’s setup, we just went for a single key light and a background light forming a green slash on the brick wall behind her. Although the end result on-screen looked great, this particular two-camera setup was fairly unorthodox in the way we executed it. Normally, you’d shoot a two-camera interview with one camera on the subject ...