Lecture Notes
Three basic types of interviews
1) Hard Exposure - Investigative
2) Informational - putting the audience into the picture
3) Emotional - engaging with and revealing the subjects emotions
Why do we need proper interviews? They add personal experience and expertise to a film, adding colour and context whilst enhancing emotional engagement. Interviewing experts on a topic that can use their professional expertise and opinion, whilst interviewing 'ordinary people' that can prove a relevant-to-the-subject perspective. The type of questions that we can ask need to be questions that allow us to explore the subject we are tackling, questions that enable the viewer to get to know the interviewee and engage with them.
Every interview needs a set up sequence, this is a sequence of shots introducing the interviewee visually which can sustain the time needed introducing your character in voiceover. Also need to think of actuality, sequences and GVS which can match your interviewees answers to provide visual illustration and also to cover the many edits to their interview sync. Also a decision that needs to be made is whether or not the interviewer is in shot or not
Test Shoot
We undertook a test shoot where we interviewed one person, in our group we chose to shoot both the interviewer and the interviewee. We used a clip mic for both for the sound and shot both characters from different angles. Below are some pictures of the shoot and the different shots we used to film both an interviewer and an interviewee -
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