Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Codes and Conventions of an Interview
- Mise-en-Scene
- Background signifies the genre
- Reinforces the content of the interview
- The background of this
school documentary is
lockers, which is used as the
audience would associate
this with school.
- The interviewer needs to sit or stand as
close to the camera as possible, so the
interviewee looks at possible, so the
interviewee looks at the interviewer,
not the camera.
- interviews are never
filmed with a light source
behind them, for example,
a window.
- Positioning of the body is within eye
line to the interviewer.
- Positioning of the interviewer is
important, if the interviewee is
on the right side of the frame, the
interviewer should be on the left.
- Cutaways can be used,
edited in for two reasons
- Break up the interview,
hear the voice of
interviewee on top,
illustrates what is being
said.
- Avoid jump cuts
when questions are
being asked.
- Interviews can be filmed with
two different cameras to
show close up's at the same
time.
- Graphics can be used to anchor who
the person is, and the relevance of
the topic.
- Answers are relevant to the narrative
structure of the documentary. Questions
from the interviewer are edited out.
- Medium close-ups of the
interview are used as it shows
emotion
- Frame can alternate if more
that one interview is carried
out. This is done to give
variety.
- Titles used to show a
persons name or how
they are relevant to
the topic.