Documentary Unit: Interview Test Shoot

Today me and my group decided to do a 'test shoot' for our interviews to see how long it would take to rig and get ready for a shoot and to rig down and to test out the equipment we will be using.
The initial setup  was pretty successful and took roughly 3/4 of an hour. In terms of lighting shadowing became a bit of an issue. The large LED light wasn't available for us to use for the test shot so we used two small LED lights which produced more shadow on our test presenter and interviewee. Another way we could have resolved this issue would be to move the interviewee away from the wall. That way we would eliminate shadowing from behind Jason's head. As a result our interview setting would possibly suffer, and I feel that its more important to have a good backdrop to a little shadowing.
In terms of sound the set-up went pretty well. We decided to do the set-up with the clip mics on a zoom instead of using the TASCAM since using the zoom would be easier and the sound quality was still very good.
Some parts of the footage suffer grain noise which is a little irritating. We'll fix that when shooting the actual interview by using more substantial lighting, evenly distributed around the cameras. The equipment we will be using for the interview is a three camera setup:


After seeing the footage I found the three-camera interview setup to be very effective. We wanted to have some attention/focus on the interviewer as our documentary is based around the presenters journey, and on such a journey
Test shoot footage:





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