The two main factors for choosing gear for corporate shots, except budget, is the number of persons talking and length of the interview.

If there is only one person talking, then we can use one boom microphone and one lavalliere on the person, and still recording into the camera.

For this type of simple shot, I only need to carry the camera bag with a FS5, a tripod bag and a small backpack. This third bag contains a Amaran 672C LED light, a small Aputure EZ box II and a Röde NTG4+ shotgun microphone that work with the sound kit in the camera bag.

If we have conversations with more persons at the same time, we get a more complex shot. First of all, we need a separate recorder and a wireless kit for each of the interview persons.

The sound kit I use resembles the small sound bag Stellan described earlier. It consists of a Zoom F8 recorder with an external power supply, four Sennheiser G3 wireless kits in a K-Tec bag, a pair of Sony 7506 headphones and a Sennheiser 416 shotgun microphone with a XLR-cable.

With a longer duration of a shot, we need a second camera and/or lots of b-roll footage in order to be able to cut down the dialogue.

This is why I add a second camera, a Sony A6300 mirrorless camera with Sony CLM V55 5” monitor, a KM2-XLR adapter and a Tentacle sync. It uses the same lenses as the FS5, have a similar color science and is not so expensive, (compared to a FS5 or FS7). We also need an extra tripod to the second camera.

With this type of larger shot, we normally have the three point lightning kit with us.

As usual, flexibility, durability and cost are the main reasons behind these kits.

Finally, more equipment on set leads to a larger crew. You need at least two persons, to setup and operate camera, sound and lightning.