Shooting interviews - workshop

In this lesson we learned all about how to shoot interviews, were taught multiple key things as well as terms and explanations.

VOX:
  • A type of interview commonly used when interviewing people in the streets, which is most commonly seen in news segments or surveys.
  • Not very representative/doesn't add much to story
  • Useful is story is engaging.

Interview tone/style:
  • Depends on subject matter
  • Hard exposure: Investigative
  • Informational: Puts audience in the picture
  • Emotional: Engaging and revealing the subjects and emotion
'Proper' interviews:
  • Add personal experience and expertise to the film
  • Adds colour and context
  • Emotional engagement
  • Evidence - personal testimony
Who is needed for interviews?
  • Experts - Scientists, doctors, lawyers - Professional opinions and relevant to subject
  • Ordinary people - interested - relevant to subject
  • Officials - Appointed representatives
What to ask?
  • Explore subject being tackled
  • Get to know interviewee and engage with them
  • Create tension/drama
  • Ask questions that the audience want answers to
How to chose interviewee:
  • Relevant - experience and person
  • Charisma
  • Engaging/emotionally connecting
  • Prestige
  • Appeal
  • Exclusivity
  • Whistleblower
  • Expertise
Preparing for interview:
  • Questions - Don't read off - keep as a checklist
  • Know subject inside out
  • Know location, props, camera position/frame and lighting/sound
Interviewees may want to know questions well in advance, make sure to give them 'question areas' so you are't restricted to only the questions you have written down.

Set-up sequence:
  • Visual introduction to interviewee
  • Actuality, sequences or GV's (general views) to literally or thematically match your interviewee's answers.

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