Drew Gauley wrote: That said, I'm wondering whether I should invest in a pre-assorted kit of reflectors or like Brad was suggesting, just go with the bigger boards and order the ones that I would be using for one person interviews. I'm not entirely sure where to position the light source and reflectors in relation to the talent...
Ideally, I would love to be able to set up one light and use numerous boards to get the three-point lighting covered.
The main advantage with using one light source and reflectors is that you don't have to worry about color-matching your lights: even lights of the same model from the same manufacturer don't always match. And of course you only have to plug in one light.
For interviews the fastest/most portable approach is to attach the light to the long leg of the C-stand and aim it up to the reflector (or you can attach it to the C-stand); see this example from CRLS:
https://www.thelightbridge.com/video/so ... e-matters/That would work for a simple one-point light if you're really pressed for time (but heck, you could just use a softbox for this and it would likely look better). If you need fill, you can carve off a bit of the light beam with a smaller reflector (use the mirror-surface one for this) and direct it to another reflector on the other side but close to the camera; you don't want it coming from the opposite side of the key but a little more head-on to the subject. This is where the value of CRLS/Dedo Lightstream comes in, because you can provide the key and the fill with just one light, and it's easy to carve off a small piece of the beam and aim it exactly where you want. You can see a demo of this "carving off" at about 4:30 in this video:
Another good approach, either using these reflectors or standard foamcore boards, is this (which I learned from one of Jamie's posts, in fact):
https://www.provideocoalition.com/the_s ... etup-ever/and the updated version:
https://www.provideocoalition.com/the-s ... rn-update/I'm not sure you really need three-point lighting; the examples above don't use rim light and they look fine. The ones in the pro video coalition link do have a room light in the back; for this you could use something like a Luxli Cello, which is small and battery powered.
I was especially impressed with the one-point CRLS example, which looks quite usable when positioned just right. Light sources get softer as they get bigger, and one way to make them bigger is to move them closer; that's one of the things he explains in that short video and it's also explained in the two articles I linked to above.
Do check out the foam board/card with negative fill option, as it's an awful lot cheaper than CRLS/Lightstream if you only need lighting for interviews.
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