Codes and Conventions of Filiming and editing interviews

In class we compared two interviews "in the teeth of Jaws" part 1 and "Down Town Abey" we did this  to establish the codes and conventions of filiming and editing interviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zj8R0kumw

Codes and conventions

• Framing- When filming the interview the interviewee must be left or right of the frame this is called conventional framing. They interviewee can change from left or right of the screen they do this so it break up the interview or reinforces the persons opposition.

· If the interviewee is sitting on the on the left hand side then the interviewer will sit on the right hand side. So that the interviewee is looking at the interviewer and doesn’t look down the camera lens.

· Eye line follows the rules of thirds. The interviewee's eyes will always be in the top frame.

 

· Camera is stuck steady when questions are being asked. Adjust framing- sizes of shot doesnt have to stay the same throughout the interview.

· Mise en scene reinforces what the interview is about for example when interviewing the cast of Jaws they put up pictures of sharks behind them reinforcing what the interview is about.

 

· Sit the interviewer next to a window never place an interviewee in front of a window as it causes shadows.

· You never here the interviewee ask the questions they are edited out so they only here the interviewer answer the questions. They add clips ( cutaways) to keep the audience interested breaking up the interview. They will add the clips ether whilst the interviewer is still talking so its like a voice over to the clip or when they will stop talking and it will cut to the clip.

· Archive Material is a convention of interviews. Archive material is the use of existing footage that they never used. Or when suggested by the interviewee they go out and shoot some additional footage.

· Cutaways are used to break up an interview making it more interesting. They also avoid jump cuts when doing the interview

· They always use graphics for example when the interviewee starts speaking the will out up a little box with information about them for example there name.