You guys, ask for and were going to give it to you a step by step basic training on interview light. First we’re going to take a look at how to set up the lights in front of the subject then we are going to take a look how set up the light behind the subject. Lastly, we are going to look at getting your crew in place so you’re ready to film the interview. I’m Tom Skowronski and this is interview lighting.
Now what we’ve already learned from three points lighting is that we need a key light, a film light and a backlight. This time were going to change it up and use two key lights, what happens is when one spills over it works with the fill light for the secondary subject to our interview. So, let’s go and move our light in the positions that are going to be in front of the subjects.
If you guys notice we are about 45-degrees from our camera here. This is going to be our wide cam, this is camera one, we are going to have two more cameras and we are also going to set up one more lay to work as another key. The basic goal behind setting up the lights in a 45-degree scenario from the camera is to create one Key light on this subject and one Key light from here hitting this subject. When this happens, the lights tend to spill over and hit the other subjects that are end our line of vision and work as a fill light.
Now that we set up the lights that are going to be in front of our subjects, we need to set up the backlights that are going to be behind our subject. What this does is creates even more illumination onto the set making sure that everything is lit perfectly. Something we have to be very careful with is the fact that our backlight may spill over into our cameras lens. We don’t want this to happen, we want any extra light that spilling over to end up in our subjects around our set. All what were going to do with this backlight is raise them about a foot or so higher than the actual subjects. Now what this does is create that even rim of light that we want and looks this light spill over exactly where we need them to go.
There is light number one that could adjust them at the barn doors and let’s go ahead and set up light number two. What we are trying to do here is replicate this graphic that you can see clearly two lights in front both key lights two lights in back both backlights and this will illuminate our scene to the best of our abilities.
Now, that we taking care of our first two steps, it’s time to bring in our talent and go ahead and shoot the interview. So, as we can see from the graph we know the lighter subjects that introduce Joseph and Julie their going to interview each other while we set up our cameras. So, first we are going to set up the camera under the light and the reason we do this is so it doesn’t spill over and the light continuous to stay and shine on our subject.
The idea here is to capture Julie in the camera just underneath the light while camera one will be all to get everybody. So they can set the stage for the whole interview. Now, the reason that’s work is because none of our lights are hitting the cameras point of view, they are only hitting the subjects. The same scenario is going to work for camera number three, which is going to shoot Joseph head on. This work so we can get our cut away and once again the lights directly above about two feet or so. So the light never spills over into the camera lens.
Utilizing these three simple steps’, we cannot only use key lights and backlights but we can also create a multi cam environment. This is the best scenario we could possibly utilize for interview lighting.
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