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1. What is the advantage of including the interviewer and questions in the interview?
2. How do you "prep" your interview subject and why is that important?
3. What is involved in setting the stage for the interview?
4. What is the best microphone to use for an interview? Why?
5. What is the director's responsibility during the interview? What is the reporter's responsibility?
1. If you don't include the interviewer and the question they asked the answer that the interviewee gives won't make much sense and they won't have to include the question in their answer. And giving shots of the interviewer provide instant cutaways that is easier for the editor to deal with during post-production.
ReplyDelete2. It's very important that the subject is prepared for an interview. You need to make sure that the questions are ready and you know what style to film in.Or how the interviewee is going to answer the questions given. Also, have your questions in a specific order. Have warm-up questions for the beginning, harder more thought out questions for the middle, and funny, less serious questions for the end. And also make sure that the interviewee is comfortable and ready for the interview so that they are able to given fuller responses to the questions, rather than quick, nervous responses for if they were nervous or had stage fright. And also remind them to look at the interviewer, not the camera.
3. Find a place with no interruption, that is a safe environment for your filming equipment. Use a place with a good, pleasing background. Make sure the camera is set up right, with good angles looking at the subject and the interviewer. Make sure you have a good lighting set-up. And make sure you have a good mic.
4. The preferred, most ideal mic for an interview would have to be a clip-on mic. A boom mic or stick mic would also work very well. However, you want to avoid using the mic that is built into your camera because it may not pick up sound as well as a boom mic or clip-on.
5. The director's job is to watch for angle changes, making sure that if the interview is longer than a few minutes, that you have multiple camera angles for variety and making sure that the video is more interesting to watch if you use different angles and close-ups. And if you're not showing shots of the interviewer, make sure that you have good cutaways. The reporter's job is to ask the right questions. Make sure they're detailed and open-ended and if you ask one question about a subject, make sure you ask some follow-up questions that relate to the same subject to keep a topic going. And don't forget to look interesting and encouraging to make sure the subject knows that you're interested so you'll get the best answers possible.
1. The apparently free-flowing responses seem more natural than a quiz session. Shots of the interviewer provide instant, no-brainer cutaways for the editor in post production. Since it's possible to re-shoot the interviewer's questions later, they can be revised to sync more closely with whatever the subject has already said.
ReplyDelete2. Share the questions with them, rehearse with them, give them advice like look at the interviewer, and most importantly, explain how you will use editing to make every mistake disappear, remind your subjects that your job is to make them look good and they'll be proud of themselves when they see the result..
3. Considering the needs of the environment, the camera, the lights and the microphone.
Considering if you have enough room, if the backdrop looks nice and if the lighting is good.
4. A wireless clip-on microphone, because it's the closest to the subjects you can get without being noticed and gets the least amount of extraneous noise.
5. The director responsibility is to watch for angle changes. If the interview lasts more than a couple of minutes, you'll need multiple setups for variety. And if you use the subject-only style, they're an absolute must for cutaways. The reporter's responsibility is to have the right questions.
1. What is the advantage of including the interviewer and questions in the interview?
ReplyDeleteThe advantage to including both is that the audience hears each question so the subject doesn't have to build it into the reply. Also makes editing easier.
2. How do you "prep" your interview subject and why is that important?
To prep the subject, it would be good to share the questions you’ll be asking so they are prepared to share a logical answer. Start by sharing the questions, so they know what to expect. Rehearse, rehearse, and rehearse. Tell the subject to look at the interviewer and not the camera. Also remind the interviewee that the footage will be edited.
3. What is involved in setting the stage for the interview?
In choosing a place to shoot the interview, a person needs to consider the environments the shooting will take place in, the camera, the lights and the microphone. You have to find a place free of interruptions. That means not loud, comfortable surrounding and an appropriate backdrop. Place yourself at a position where you are 10-15 degrees to one side.
4. What is the best microphone to use for an interview? Why?
To mike the subject, go with what you got. A wireless clip-on mike is ideal is probably the best but a hard-wired version is good and a shotgun mike on a fish pole boom works just as well too.
5. What is the director's responsibility during the interview? What is the reporter's responsibility?
The director is responsible for every single thing that will have to be cut and then cover the edit with an angle change. The reporter is responsible for asking open-ended questions. Follow-up questions are always good too. Always look interested and encouraging.
1. The subject hears each question so the subject doesn't have to build it into a reply.
ReplyDelete2. When you first set up an interview the first thing is style? Like what kind of interview do you want? A classic interview and occasionally visible? And this is important so your views will like your interview.
3. The "needs" you must have for the setup because you cant do an interview without a camera nor a microphone.
4. Wireless microphone because you cant really see it during the interview. and that good so the viewers wont see it.
5.The directors responsibility is to much sure the camera is fitted tot he interview like all the right angles so they can see them good and make sure the viewers can hear the interview clearly. The reports job is to make sure that he/or she goes over everything and makes sure they ask everything.
1.It helps relax the the person who is being interviewed and the interviewer gets to see the person before they get hired and gets to see their responses.
ReplyDelete2.with the throwaway question that will calm down the subject and get them relaxed
3.Picking the best place for the interview with little noise and a simple background.
4. The wireless clip on because no cords and it is small.
5.The director is responsible for watching the angles and the reporter has to ask the questions.