From the course: Lighting a Video Interview

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Shutter speed

Shutter speed

Now that you have an understanding of some of the essentials to the lighting instruments you're going to use, let's take a very quick look at the exposure triangle to achieve a properly exposed video shot. Now, this by no means is a comprehensive look at your camera. We're just going to use a standard video enabled DSLR to illustrate this, but the same principles hold true with just about any camera you're going to use. Alright, Jim, we're on set. We've brought in a interview subject here and, we've done some initial lighting but there's really 3 components to achieving this proper exposure. The first one that I think you usually set is going to be the shutter speed, right? >> Well of the 3, the shutter speed might be one that you want to establish as consistent throughout and one of the reasons is the shutter speed sort of dictates the amount of motion blur in your shot. It also affects the exposure because the faster or slower the shutter angle affects the amount of light…

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