What do you think of this Lighting?

The lighting is coming from the interviewer side, so you're good there. I think it is a little high-key given that the background is pretty well lit. Did you put bead board on the talent's fill side or do you have another fixture there? Also, it appears that there is no or very little shoulder / hair light to help separate the talent.

It's definitely not typical, but I kind of like the heroic angle on the last fellow.
 
I have a soft box on the fill side, no boards. I had a back light pointed for all of them, but I'm wondering if I gave myself enough room between the talent and the background for it to have an effect?

And yeah haha, we tried to do something different on the last guy, that's what we came up with. Its different but pretty cool.

Thanks for your opinions! I think I'm going to get a book or two on lighting, I always feel like I could do a better job with it.
 
The lighting looked ok on each of the interviews, however, on the last subject it appeared to be farther off axis from camera and his eye light, with the glasses, looks a little odd. Also, in your examples, I have more issues with the relative size of the subjects and the screen direction changes between them. The female in the first shot is shot from much closer than the other two subjects are. This relative screen size differences would, under normal filmmaking conventions, give her more importance than the other two subjects. Also, the second subject is shot with a different screen direction than the other two subjects, i.e, he is looking left to right while the other two subjects are looking right to left. Under normal filmmaking conventions, this would mean that he is in opposition to the other subjects. I hope that this is a conscious decision.
 
Thanks...It actually was a conscious decision, even though they are all on the same "side" of the argument, so to speak. I come from a television background, and in my experience we always tried to mix up the directions of the interviews for editing purposes, with no thought behind who was facing which way. I didn't know that opposing sides normally face opposing directions...I'll certainly keep that in mind for next time, though. Same for the subject being closer meaning they are more important...never heard of that either, but its good to know for next time.

And I agree that the last interview things are a little different...I was trying to move the lights as to not get reflection off his glasses, and was having a hell of a time getting it right. I finally went with the setup here due to time constraints.

Thanks!
 
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