PRIVATE ON-SITE TRAINING FOR INTERNAL VIDEO TEAMS

Cinematic Interview
Intensive

Your team already has the cameras.
We鈥檒l help them create better images鈥攁nd better conversations.

ONE- OR TWO-DAY TRAINING 路 YOUR ROOMS 路 YOUR EQUIPMENT 路 YOUR TEAM

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Finished cinematic interview in a real living room

Train in the rooms where your team actually works.

THE CHALLENGE ISN鈥橳 MORE GEAR

Your team needs a repeatable process.

Most internal teams already own capable cameras and lights. The difficulty is using them quickly and consistently in real offices鈥攚ith mixed light, tight schedules, reflective surfaces, and people who are not used to being on camera.

This private intensive happens inside your environment. We build setups in your rooms, with your equipment, so the lessons transfer directly to the work your team creates next.

REAL ROOMS 路 REAL EQUIPMENT 路 REAL FEEDBACK

Instructor adjusting interview lighting on a real location
Instructor adjusting interview lighting on a real location

CHOOSE YOUR INTENSIVE

One day changes the image. Two days changes the whole interview.

Both options are private, hands-on, and built around your team鈥檚 rooms, equipment, people, and production goals.

ONE-DAY INTENSIVE

Day 1: The Cinematic Image

Create cinematic interviews using the rooms and equipment your team already has.

  • Read and control real rooms
  • Choose the strongest camera direction
  • Manage exposure and mixed light
  • Build motivated key light
  • Create depth and separation
  • Develop repeatable setups under time pressure

Hands-on setups. Direct feedback. A process your team can repeat.

TWO-DAY INTENSIVE

Day 1 + Day 2: Image + Story

Includes everything from Day 1, plus Day 2: The Art of Interviewing.

  • Make interviewees feel safe and comfortable
  • Prepare without making the conversation feel scripted
  • Ask questions that invite stories
  • Listen for meaningful follow-up opportunities
  • Work with nervous executives and nonprofessional subjects
  • Draw out authentic, emotionally resonant answers

Practice interviews with direct feedback from Chris.

See the room honestly

Learn to identify the one or two constraints that will actually control your image.

Shape with intention

Make every modifier, practical, and exposure choice serve a natural-looking result.

Get cinematic results

Bring the room, lighting, and subject together in a polished interview frame that feels natural.

BUILT FOR INTERNAL VIDEO TEAMS

A private workshop shaped around your team.

For in-house production, marketing, communications, and content teams that interview executives, employees, customers, or subject-matter experts.

WHAT TO EXPECT

BEFORE

Define the goals

A short discovery conversation identifies your team, rooms, equipment, workflow, and the interviews you need to improve.

ON-SITE

Learn by doing

Your staff builds real interview setups with the tools they use every day, with direct coaching and practical feedback.

AFTER

Repeat the process

Your team leaves with a clearer shared language and a workflow they can use on the next interview鈥攏ot just the workshop day.

BRING THE INTENSIVE TO YOUR TEAM

Programs are quoted for your organization.

Choose the one-day production intensive or the complete two-day image-and-story workshop. Proposals are based on format, team size, location, and travel.

Instructor adjusting interview lighting on a real location
Instructor adjusting interview lighting on a real location

DAY TWO

The Art of Interviewing

The second day moves from image-making to the human side of the interview: creating the conditions for honest, useful, memorable answers.

Learn how to make nonprofessional interviewees comfortable, prepare without over-scripting, ask questions that invite stories, and recognize the follow-up that takes a conversation deeper.

The image earns attention. The conversation earns trust.

The Art of Interviewing for Film ebook cover

PRIVATE ON-SITE TRAINING

Bring the Cinematic Interview Intensive to your team.

Tell us about your staff, location, equipment, and goals. We鈥檒l recommend the one-day or two-day format and prepare a custom proposal.

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