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Conducting the interview: Working through challenges
From the course: Learning Documentary Video: 2 Production
Conducting the interview: Working through challenges
- We've already talked about some techniques to form a strong sense of trust and comfort and then move through the interview in a successful manner. Sometimes, however, you may need to go beyond the basics and switch things up in order to elicit better interviews. That's what I want to talk about here. I first want to talk about some alternative ways to get an interview subject comfortable. As we mentioned before, it's essential for the director to create an environment that encourages natural delivery from the interview subjects. Certainly some subjects are naturally natural on camera, others aren't, and some just can't get there very easily in a formal sit-down scenario. One possible way to coax more natural delivery from inexperienced interviewees is to talk to them while they do something they love. Just mike them up and let them talk as they perform a task. This not only has the potential to relax the subject and get them talking, but it can also sometimes result in some intimate…
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Effective directing6m 28s
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Setting up the interview: Location6m 5s
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Setting up the interview: Aesthetic6m 15s
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Conducting the interview: Getting great responses8m 23s
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Conducting the interview: Working through challenges5m 53s
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Shooting effective b-roll8m 44s
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Shooting engaging observational scenes7m 16s
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