A Still from My First Professional Job

Chris Messineo

Chris Messineo

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I have been working on labors of love for a long time, but this past week I got my first paying gig, shooting a series of interviews for a corporate video.

Here is an image from one of the interviews.

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The interviews were shot at a Black Tie event and the interviewees (is that a word) were brought into a small room for a 5 minute interview.

I am looking for some honest feedback as I am always trying to get better.

Thanks,

Chris

p.s.  I have done no color correction yet.

p.s.s.  I realize we should have hidden the microphone cord better.
 
Re: A Still from My First Professional Job

CMessineo, congrats on your first paying gig man! thats awesome!

The image looks nice and clean appropriate for what i am imagining this sort of thing to be like. if i could make a few suggestions, take them as you will.

Any chance of in the future pulling the subject a little further away from the bg? so that it goes out of focus? even better pulling the subject further away and going with a longer lens. making the bg really out of focus. also, and maybe you can do this with some color correct levels or curves adjustment,but, how about pumping a bit more light onto him. just to give him a little more kick, without blowing him out of course. Maybe even adding a light source in frame? thats always nice. Anyway, just throwin stuff out there, i have never done a sit down interview type think like this.

looks good dude, even if you stay with what you have, and give it some nice color correction it will look sweet.
 
Re: A Still from My First Professional Job

Nice work! I'll second the other suggestions about a little more light on the subject. I would also add a small kicker or back light to further separate the subject from the background (since he's wearing dark colors on a dark BG).
 
Re: A Still from My First Professional Job

yeah I agree with the other suggestions. Also, I think it could have used a little more soft light on the subject.

Jon
 
Re: A Still from My First Professional Job

Thanks for the great feedback.

The room we were given to shoot the interviews in was only about 8 to 10 feet long. We hung the backdrop on the back wall. Put the interview subject 3 feet in front of backdrop and then had the camera about 5 feet from the subject. I wish we could have gotten more distance so we could have zoomed in more.

I will definitely play with the color correction (this interviewee came out particularly red) and I will add some highlights to the backdrop in post (using Sapphire).

Thanks again,

Chris
 
Re: A Still from My First Professional Job

Cool. Post a grab when you're finished with it. I'd like to see what it looks like.
 
Re: A Still from My First Professional Job

A Backlight would avoid his shoulders to blend with the dark background, and for a very simple way out, you could hide the microphone better if you had clip it on the man's black blazer. But good job nonetheless!
 
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