The Art of Lighting and Shooting Interviews


This workshop is for camera operators, directors, and producers who are ready to move beyond simply illuminating their subjects -- and take their lighting and shooting skills to the next level.

Almost all corporate videos, documentaries, and news require shooting interviews and/or talking heads. This workshop is for camera operators, directors, and producers who are ready to move beyond simply illuminating their subjects — and take their lighting and shooting skills to the next level. The emphasis is on using small crews with minimal equipment to create a high-end, news-magazine look. The workshop concentrates on interior lighting but also includes exterior and mixed lighting situations. Through lectures, demonstrations, and dozens of hands on exercises, a variety of lighting techniques will be taught, including using natural light, traditional tungsten lights, state-of-the art LED lights, and fluorescent.

Shooting great-looking interviews and head-shots is about more than just using old-fashioned, out-dated 3-point lighting — it is also about choosing the best location, dressing the set, figuring out the most effective camera and interviewee placement, creating a balanced composition, selecting an appropriate microphone, hiding the microphone, using audio mixers, recording clean audio, obtaining shallow depth-of-field, slow zooming for dramatic effect, applying make-up, using lens filters, customizing the picture with creative white balance, determining the proper exposure, using zebras and peaking, understanding light meters and waveform monitors, programming pleasing custom Picture Profiles with the cameras menus, shooting multiple people, shooting two-camera interviews, asking questions that get usable answers, directing professional and non-professional talent, and using teleprompters.

Anyone responsible for lighting and shooting people will benefit from this workshop which
provides proven tips and tricks of the trade that ensure superior results regardless of time and budget restraints.

Some of the equipment that is used in the workshop:
Sony XDCAM camcorders (PDW-F800, PMW-F3, PMW-EX1R)
Sony PVM-1741 OLED monitor
Litepanels (1x1 Bi-colorG, Sola 4, MiniPlus, and Croma)
Lowel (Tota, Pro, Omni, and DP lights)
Chimera soft boxes
PhotoFlex soft boxes
HMI and KinoFlo lights
Avenger and Matthews grip equipment
Leader LV-5330 waveform monitor
Sekonic 758C light meter
DSC ChromaDuMonde charts

Instructors

Doug Jensen

Doug Jensen

Doug Jensen describes himself as someone who “lives and breathes” video production and digital cinematography. As an HD cinematographer, producer/director/editor, consultant and founder of Vortex Media, Doug enjoys being involved in all facets of multimedia production and education.

His multifaceted experience spans through numerous areas of multimedia production and innovation: a freelance ENG/EFP owner-operator; a cameraman for live sporting events and concerts; a news photographer; a director of photography for documentaries; a corporate video writer/director/producer specializing in training and promotional videos; and a development consultant for such products as Sony’s XDCAM EX advanced camera systems.

As an educator and one of the few members of Sony's Independent Certified Experts (I.C.E.) team, Doug frequently teaches HD workshops around the United States and internationally. And with over 30 years of professional experience, Doug brings a wide-ranging, real-world perspective into the classroom.

He is the creator, writer, and producer of the popular “Magic Lantern DVD Guides,” a digital photography instructional video series that is published by a division of Barnes & Noble, and has written and produced countless other training and promotional videos for dozens of businesses and government agencies.

Doug’s credits and clients include: NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN, PBS, BBC, NHK, EBU, TNT, A&E, E!, ESPN, HGTV, Discovery Channel, Food Network, Travel Channel, History Channel, Sundance Channel, Warner Bros., Weather Channel, Golf Channel, NASCAR Images, MLB Productions, NBA Entertainment, Holland America, USDA Forest Service, Microsoft, Hasbro, Disney, Textron, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Pfizer, Bayer, Amgen, Pampered Chef, Wendy's, UPS, Ocean Spray, AARP, Volvo, Lockheed, and many others.

If you’re looking for a casual, laid back workshop this summer, you’re not going to get it from Doug. His raw enthusiasm and passion for the subject matter will educate, challenge, and inspire you in ways you may not expect.

 

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