Lighting
Interview lighting built for consistency.
The setup needed to hold up over repeated attendee interviews without treating the conference room like a studio build.
The film
A live conference setting became a controlled documentary-style interview environment through lighting, background control, camera angles, lens choice and a practical two-camera setup.
The approach
The work centred on making repeated interviews feel composed and consistent inside a working event space: clean light on the subject, useful depth in the background, practical camera placement, and reliable audio records for post.
Project details
- Release
- 2026
- Category
- Documentary
- Tags
Documentary interview capture
A short-documentary interview look inside a live conference.
A compact interview environment built for consistency, speed and usable documentary footage across two production days.
The interview position needed to feel intentional without slowing down the conference around it. Lighting, camera height, background direction and lens choice all had to hold up as subjects moved through the setup.
The project used a RED/Sony camera workflow with Sigma/Canon lensing and separate Zoom audio records. That let the interview capture stay practical inside the conference environment while still giving SandBay a stronger production base than simple event coverage.
The finished capture path gave the production multiple camera angles, clean speech audio and organized media for a post-production workflow outside the room.
Camera
Two-camera coverage for practical post-production.
Camera and lens choices gave SandBay the editorial flexibility of a proper interview unit while keeping the footprint manageable.
Support
A compact footprint for a busy event room.
The setup kept the interview work focused while leaving the surrounding conference environment functional.
Additional credits
- Client / production company
- SandBay Entertainment
- Director of Photography
- James Alton
- Assistant support
- Marie Ashwood
Behind the scenes
Behind the work.
A quick production run: BTS, set texture and proof of the work happening around the finished film.
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