Documentary Interview Lighting

In this documentary, I am still taking the role of cinematographer and DOP assistant. I have seen a lot of documentary that the lighting seems to be the natural lights in the room, because it all happened in the real time, but we still have to light up the characters when they are talking. I would not choose to use strong lighting resources, because we are not shooting in the studio. Therefore, I have to look at the shooting place ASAP, and then try to use more natural lights and get one more light for light up the character’s face and make them looks nature and comfortable, the strong lighting source would not make the character feels comfortable when talking.
 

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