Interview Technique

With an interview looming tomorrow i thought i would write a little something about it, so I've read up on some interview techniques. Some of these techniques include making sure that the contributor is comfortable and at ease, this way they are more likely to relax and give good answers, its also a good tip to ask them if they could try and include the question within the answer as in the edit you may not have the question included so would sound rather odd. Its important to actively listen so that if they give a good answer you can ask them followup questions so that you can get a lot of information on it. It's also a good idea to make sure you don't fidget or play with paper when interviewing and also make sure the interviewee doesn't do this, so sitting the interviewee on a still chair and taking away things they can play with is important. Also if you ask questions at the start of the interview it is more likely that the interviewee will be slightly nervous or not warmed up so ask a few simpler questions at the start then when they get talking ask the more in depth questions, also if they don't answer a question how you would like you can ask the question again at the end, but remember to tell not to say "as i said before" because it is likely you wont include the previous answer in the edit. When interviewing on camera its a good idea to place the person asking the questions right next to the camera so they are looking towards the camera. I intend to use these techniques in my interview tomorrow so hopefully i wont forget them!!!!!!!!!

Researching

Researching is very difficult but very important if you are to make a successful package, its not only important to have the correct facts and figures but also important to find out whether contributors are correct for the piece the locations you will use will be safe and whether you can film in certain areas. All this needs to be done before you start any filming otherwise it will only cause troubles in the long run. Ive found the researching in our documentary interesting, i originally thought that it would be hard to contact contributors but discovered it to be alot easier than i anticipate, before starting our documentary i was unaware of the amount of research that had to be done, so this has stood me in good stead for future projects so i am able to research and organise my self properly!!!!

Video Quality

On the video I added just below i had to lower the quality so that blogger would allow it on, so i have now uploaded a different video onto youtube keeping its original quality, but had to embed the video instead of an upload. Hope you enjoy it!!!!

Live Video Recording of the clash's whats my name

Heres a video me and a few mates made, we set up a live set using a mixer recording straight into the computer, we didnt have the best equipment available but improvised on what we did have which was a few jack mics and a couple of xlr's, i set it up so that the sound was picked up through the mixer but the images were picked up by the built in isight camera, i would like to try this again with a decent camera and a few more mics so that we can mic up the drum kit properly. anyway all good practice!

Photos in FCP Pro

Above is a short video i made to music in which ive imported some photos i have taken and a music track and edited together. I have used movrement in some of the photos to keep it abit more interesting. Its only a practice attempt to get used to some of the techniques that are available on FCP pro so that i am able to use them with future projects.

FCP Practice

Above is a video i made using FCP, during a lecture we were given 3 hours to make an edit to music, we had a choice of music and clips from a variety of films, during this time i struggled to grasp FCP so i decided to come home and make a new edit for practice so i dowloaded a few trailers and added a music track of my own, and pratcied some editing to music, I decided to make a sky movies type of advert but due to a lack of clips it makes this video weaker but all in all i feel its better than the one i did during lecture plus you can only get better through practice!!!!!!

Proposals and Pitches

Very important in the broadcast industry, if your are to get a programme commissioned these will need to be good, its important to grab there attention in the opening paragraph of a pitch and the explain the details later, otherwise it will be put down and forgotten about even if you have a great idea, same goes for the pitch as well, grab there attention early on then go into more detail later on, you need to make sure you have done enough research too so that you are able to back your ideas up so that your idea can be fully explained and justified for it to be commissioned and funded. If you have the facts and figures to hand its a good to way to show you know what you are doing, you need to be confident and enthusiastic about your proposal and take this enthusiasm into the pitch as well, you have to remember that this is your idea and if you're not enthusiastic about it the people reading the proposal or attending the pitch wont be either!!!!