Although we were shooting this interview at the corporate building, and they thought they wanted the view of “A” mountain as seen from their building behind the talent, I shot it in green screen. This not only saved time in trying to get the talent positioned up off the ground and the lighting right to have the bright window behind him but it allowed for them to change their minds about the background.
I shot some video of “A” Mountain from his window, blurred it a little in post, and used the green screen to put it behind him while adding a slow zoom to the final composite.
The corporate podcast people threw their own microphone on the talent on top of mine which, to me, looks really bad but it was what they wanted.