Interviewing

INTERVIEWING:
• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview?
(Clocks Tick Tock Making Heads Pound Loudly)
Camera
Tapes
Tripod
Microphone (to be heard and not seen) (hangloose)
Headphones
Power Source
Light Source

• Shooting into a light source = SILHOUETTE

Button to adjust =Flash - backlight


• Where do you want your light source?
behind the camera

• On what object should you focus the camera?
Thier nose

• No tripod=


• Date and Time=permenantly recorded on your tape, NEVER


• SP/EP Standard play on tape/Extended play
always be in sp

• Camera shoots in ________________.

• Pre-Roll-2-3 seconds before you start your interview
begin recording so we can edit without cutting off words


• Post-Roll-same but after interview


CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND: Dynamic = has some depth not plain, 6-8 feet away from wall

• 1 Shot=Middle of chest to above the head

• 1 Shot with graphic=Middle of chest, above the head and pan to left or right

• 2 Shot=only with more than one anchor

• CU-close up

• MS-medium shot, little wider

• LS-Long shot, sets the scene

• ECU-extreme close up

• Rule of thirds-Imaginary lines are drawn dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically.  You place improtant elements of your composition where these lines intersect.
Eyes on the thirds.

CAMERA MOVEMENTS:
• Tilt-moving the camera up and down, space shuttle


• Pan-moving left and right


• Zoom-changing the focal length


• Dolly-somethin Larson sleeps with at night, and physically moving camera on wheels

LIGHTS
• Key-most important, brightest light


• Fill-fill in shadows, caused by the fill light


• Back-opposite of key light, provides depth
Three point lighting

MICROPHONES:
• Unidirectional-takes sound in 1 direction

• Omnidirectional- get from all directions

• Cardiod- Heart shape, picks up in one direction, and around the speaker

• Lav/Lapel Microphone-Clip on, little microphone

• Boom Microphone-on a pole, unidirectional