Week 8 epiphany
- INTERVIEW
On today’s class, we watched numbers of interviews. When people mentioned documentary, they are easily relate to the interview. However, too many normal interviews will make viewers feel boring to watch. So using different ways to do an interview seems so significant in documentary. Robin showed so many clips on class to illuminate the different style of interview. Usually, in formal interview, the interviewee is looking at the camera or looking at the interviewer who might sit beside with camera. I think this normal style will make the interview straight, powerful and serious, especially used in biography documentary. In addition, sometimes, the interviewee and interviewer may sit together in the shot, they may talked like a friend. This style seems more relaxed than the first one, it is also usually used in television program I guess. In my opinion, I am prefer other one which is more interesting, the interviewer is following with the interviewee, and ask the concrete question when the interviewee doing something. This one is help viewers directly get involved in it. Actually, in broadcast media, we have done the similar one in our television program. We did a food theme program, which introduced Middle East food. In this program, we interviewed one chef during her cooking process, according her cooking step, we asked specific questions. This interview style not only makes audience know the theme more clearly, but also avoid the boring waiting time. If I do an interview in future, I’ll still choose this one.
Then we did a class exercise to shooting an interview documentary. I am a sound recorder. In our interview, we used a different shooting style. For example, the interviewee look at the camera, and we also used the over shoulder shot from the interviewer. But in our shooting process, our group didn’t filming systematically. I think we should consider how to improve cooperation in our future group exercise.