You may argue with me (please do!) but in our daily business, interview setups are among the visual tasks we don’t put much thought into anymore. Most of us filmmakers have done so many interviews that at some point we found our trusted routine and stopped fooling around: nice background (clean or harmoniously-dressed), two or three lights, diffusion, your favorite interview lens and – voilá! Nothing bad about it, but what if we put a little twist on this scenario? Something quick and subtle, like using lens filters for interviews?
Read the full article at CineD: Softening the Look – the Magic of Lens Filters for Interviews