The "Set" Up

 

This photo shows the basic interview environment of the shooting location in the SNPL Boardroom.  Set lighting is a challenge as ambient light from the windows falls in a non-complimentary manner, lots of reflective glass display cases, and the overheads are banks of buzzy, ballasted florescent fixtures...  Not Good!  The solution has been to find decent position for the subject chair (where the background is interesting and conducive to a shallow field defocus), rig out 2 or 3 point lighting with 5500k softboxes, and getting the audio in tight. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictured is a rigged Canon 5D mk3 on rails w/ slide mount and off-camera audio via Rode 2ch shotgun microphone.  B-camera is a modified Canon 7D linked with an external recorder (audio-thru).