Week 5 Lecture(Reading)

Shooting interviews is very funny as it will record everything and by utilizing different angels and using more cameras to shoot cameras in cameras, which would create a deeper layer of shots. People reflect differently under the camera and they are also influenced by the surrounding elements.

It would be perfect if the interviewer would know how to ask questions and deliver the sense to the interviewees in the right way. Interviews could ask the interviewees some questions which would make their audiences expecting to see. What is more, it is critical for the interviewers to decide how to make each interviewee fits to the central idea of the film. The technique is about leading and to lead the interviewers to the point that the interviewers want to reach. Try some specific questions or questions with strong leading functions, and maybe they will work.

In each story, there is an antagonist and a major conflict. Digging deep into the story and to find out the specialty of them and then focus on the right part is the way to make a good film. The interviewers’ job is to dig deeper and explore more. It is all about finding more examples and stories that are related to the assumed topic and that are attractive enough to draw audiences.

Interviews should be determined to guard the conversation to be the topic and aspect that they want. Interrupting or redirecting the conversation can help lowering anxiety of the interviewees, and it is very important to ease the nerve of them in order to have a better film. The interviewer is the key factor in the whole interviewing process because from organizing the interview structure to leading to the result, the interviewer needs to be sure to have a precise plan in mind.

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