This is my favorite style of interview -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvVPvdx90iY but mixed with frames from the interlocutor work (coffee shops in my case)
For the lights. My first choice was this double softbox -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS9VCkCgNgU for 190Euro (I live in Europe). The LED technology is still expensive, i know, but if you have some "best value for money" suggestions, I listen to you. Maybe I can use just one LED panel, to save some budget... Let's say that my budget for the interview gear is close to 1900-2000 Euro (GH3 - 1000E, lens - 500E, tripod - 50E, lights - 2-300E?!, 2 lav mics 150E and 2 Zoom H1 recorders 150E)
Good to know but is too expensive for me, at 1100Euro.
I'm the only man in this "business", with a single camera (gh3). But, in order to avoid to be boring, I will mix the main camera frame with images from the coffee shop/coffee roastery. Sure, a reverse angle camera would be great, but I don't have budged for a second camera. Maybe my HTC ONE phone or my Asus Transformer tablet for black and white / sepia frames, from reverse angle (my face)? It's a low cost solution to mask the phablets video quality :smile:
And yes, manual focus is mandatory.
Thanks