How To film Cinematic Interviews | Cinematography Breakdown
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Documentary Cinematography Breakdown - How I used lighting, color, lenses, location Canva and Frameset to make interviews look cinematic. Interviews don't have to look BORING!
Today I'm breaking down a recent documentary I was Director of Photography/Creative Director on. Usually I'm not working in the creative directing space as detailed as I did in this shoot but at some point DP's get to maximize their creativity freely. Interviews don't have to look boring. I'm forever evolving in trying to grow in the interview space and add to just these sit down interviews that you see in documentaries.
This breakdown explains how important workflow(the tools that help you bring your vision to life) is as well as the importance of location, lenses intention, and lighting to turn basic interviews into cinematic shots.
We shot with Arri mini's and Cooke S4 mini lenses.
Crew:
Cam Op: Bri Monet
Steadicam Op: Taylor Johnson
1st AC: Mark McField
1st AC: Keitu aka Badbitchsteadi
2nd AC: Simone Alezandria
Gaffer: Justin Jermerson
Key Grip: Jelani
Best Boy: Kevin Garrard
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Pre-Production: Concept/Tip #1
02:37 - Pre- Production: Location/Tip #2
04:23 - Lighting Intro
04:46 - Camera and Lens Details
06:21 - LIGHTING breakdown
11:29 - Outro
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Love this breakdown! 📹✨ I don’t think Aputure makes any round scrims for their fresnel attachments but that definitely would have taken down the hot spot-you could always grab a few Arri scrims for this and use an articulating arm to attach to the barn doors. With the slow push for LEDs, you don’t find round scrims on a G&E truck anymore.. unless you have a tungsten package.
I agree!! It was def something to make sure I think about for future shoots!
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B roll, cut between cameras or cropping in
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I had a problem with the specular highlight on the forehead on an interview shoot. Everyone one wanted to roll cams but yet wanted me to fix it. What I did was flag the backlight (which was giving us the spill) with a small silk diffusion which spreaded the highlight and made it softer and less distracting. Good stuff!
Thank you! That was an option but we had to keep the light clean since it was in the shot as a prop
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A long process lol. Screen shot the image, get an iPad, edit markings while screen capturing. Airdrop to my computer
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For my talking head? I used the prism fx filter
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🎥 🎥 🎥 love the sidey light look from the key and wrapping your fill around. Is there a reason/ emotion this delivers as opposed to a more traditional set up?
So I went for the sidey look because we wanted the 12x frame on the shot. Based on the inspiration photos and how I wanted to see the “BTS” look of the set. Also the goal is to step away from the traditional look of documentaries to create something fresh and exciting so I love trying new setups when I can! Also if I did a book light or anything similar it would have probably lit too much of the scene. The fill and side light gave more contrast to the scene.
@@BrittneyJanae makes sense! Thanks for the response! Book light is exactly what I was thinking when I was thinking "traditional" hahaha