Documentary - How to shoot an interview Workshop
How to shoot an interview workshop.
Today we learnt about how to correctly shoot an interview in the most professional way possible. Unfortunately, I missed the whole talk with Ferg and Sam due to me having to go back home for an emergency, but when I came back Ferg briefly went over how to go about preparing and setting up. I've practised before this workshop in conducting an interview when I was involved in a documentary the last year when we had to interview two people that hired us for the documentary as they wanted to do a short 40 minute documentary on the Witch Finder general. So, I knew the basics of shooting an interview. However, I did learn that after the interview it's one of the best times to get a reverse shot of the person giving the interview so that we can have some reactions on what the interviewee is saying. This shows the audience that the people making the documentary are just as interested as the viewers.
Another aspect that I learnt from today was that when thinking about framing the camera you should have basic shots, but it all depends on what style you are approaching for your documentary. We knew that we wanted our documentary to be formal as we want to get the message out to the audience to show them how easy it has become to get into online gambling. Before we started we knew that the best way to help the audience understand without making them distracted would be to have basic shots in the interview. As I would be the main camera operator for our documentary I thought the best way to frame it would be on the thirds. With having it on the third we can get a very nice and clean shot, and also being able to show a shallow depth of field. Not only did we learn about the framing and composition that would be best for an interview we also looked into lighting. Three-point lighting is one of the best lighting setups for an interview so we decided to use this technique, however, we only had the two LED lights so we had to make do with that. Another aspect of the interview that we learnt about was actually asking and answering the questions correctly. We knew that we didn't want to have our voices in the actual documentary and for this to happen we needed to make sure the interviewee would say the question in their answers. As you can tell from the interview below I did struggle with that to start off with, which meant that the real interviewees that we are going to interview would probably be the same. This meant that when we do come around planning who we are going to interview we need to make sure we give ourselves enough time just in case we need to ask the same question again.
Here is the interview we made just for fun and practise.
Another aspect that I learnt from today was that when thinking about framing the camera you should have basic shots, but it all depends on what style you are approaching for your documentary. We knew that we wanted our documentary to be formal as we want to get the message out to the audience to show them how easy it has become to get into online gambling. Before we started we knew that the best way to help the audience understand without making them distracted would be to have basic shots in the interview. As I would be the main camera operator for our documentary I thought the best way to frame it would be on the thirds. With having it on the third we can get a very nice and clean shot, and also being able to show a shallow depth of field. Not only did we learn about the framing and composition that would be best for an interview we also looked into lighting. Three-point lighting is one of the best lighting setups for an interview so we decided to use this technique, however, we only had the two LED lights so we had to make do with that. Another aspect of the interview that we learnt about was actually asking and answering the questions correctly. We knew that we didn't want to have our voices in the actual documentary and for this to happen we needed to make sure the interviewee would say the question in their answers. As you can tell from the interview below I did struggle with that to start off with, which meant that the real interviewees that we are going to interview would probably be the same. This meant that when we do come around planning who we are going to interview we need to make sure we give ourselves enough time just in case we need to ask the same question again.
Here is the interview we made just for fun and practise.
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