SOMA2412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: University Of New South Wales, Camera Angle, Camera Operator
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SOMA2412 Lecture
The Interview
Assessment One
• There is a peer review
Directed by John Ford
• Disaster interview
• Clearly doest at to e iterieed
Research
• Much of the workload
• You dot hae to ko eerythig your iterieee kos ut you should ko
enough to conduct an interview
• Ignorance= loss of credibility and the interview becomes difficult
• Knowledge of subject- issues, dates, people, history Enough so you are asking
intelligent questions
• Narration? What will that narration carry?
• Specific laws, guidelines, taboos, factors to be noted
- Eg, going into a childcare facility and asking for the names of the children is a no
go!
- You must understand the traditions and expectations of the people you are
talking to
- Issues around privacy? You need to be careful about how you go about this
• Tailor koledge to fit the speifi iro topi
• Questions that can be answered in the time frame
• Walk into the interview informed about your subject in the right amount of time
with the right amount of decency
Focus on your goals
• To convey the guests knowledge, opinions and feelings about the topic
- What is their take on the topic?
• Be focused on what you are asking
• Present the guest for examination by the audience
- Putting the person in front of the audience
- Not always about words, but sometimes about the way people flinch
• Present in their context and environment
- Interviewing the people in the right environment
- Eg, no point interviewing a baker in an office
Sho e this, Sho e ho you do this dot desrie. Sho
- Showing the story in action, with visuals
• It is not radio! Show the story in action
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- We are looking at this person (gaze, movement, clothing, place they are in)
• Sound recordings are very important and must be monitored and checked
- Make sure your audio is working
• It is easy to get distracted in recording an interview and lose data that you will need
later
• Continuity is key- a crew member should always check (checklist) that questions
asked and visual coverage (What have we shown- shooting suggestions) of factors
discussed are as planned
- Essential part of the interview process from a number of angles
- Walking out of an interview without all your data is hard to recover from, will
lose points in the assessment
• If we have these goals, then what type of questions do we have and what do we
expect from them and how are they going to relate to each thing?
- You will have a serious set of goals and will know how they flow and understand
their importance (least important question to most important)
Treatment (Methodology)
• The method by which you choose to commutate the story
- How you will approach the topic
- I hoose this ethod as eig the est ay of oerig this iforatio
(writing academically)
• Fly o the all(following the subject around, conveying their own ideas and
actions), ‘ereatio, iterie are useful odels ut ot isolated
- Not serious genres, just ways of communicating
- Each one is a good or bad way of dealing with particular topics
• Responded to the topic, audience, personalities on display
- Who are we talking to, who is this film for?
• Balance of information and interest
- How uh of this is to apture peoples attetio aout ho uh is it to
convey information?
- Truthful observance of reality however, you have to get people watching
• Formulates a best fit for the deliver-eg, YouTube, Facebook, Broadcast
- Eg, Youtube: You have aout 3 seods to apture soeoes attetio
Facebook: four seconds
- We are making something for broadcast (TV) Grab the audience within one min
• Filakig rules: people like to look at people
- The King of Kong A Fistful of Quarters
- Empathy
- Priming the audience to not only understand but to care about the subject
- What are you doing to introduce the voices, show what your film will be about?
Jeopardy
• An essential part of all film making
• Somebody has to go too far
• In narrative we talk about repeated risk
- Somebody risks something and then they win
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