Video: Interview Project Blog

     For our third project, we had to interview a person in our class about a certain hobby they had. Then we had to go and capture b-roll of that certain hobby. For this certain project, my partner was Nicole Day and her hobby was dance.

     Unlike the last project, writing the 21 questions was a little bit easier because we had a little bit more of an idea on what to write since we had experience from our last project. One of the difficult parts about this project was the interview. It was difficult because, this time, unlike the last project the shot had to be framed correctly. It had to be a tight medium shot with the person on the rule of thirds line and having them looking in the blank space. The other difficult thing about this project was getting the b-roll. It was hard because you didn't want it to look staged but it was also hard getting the b-roll while it was actually happening. For my b-roll i missed Spanish class one day and went to one of Nicole's dance practices. I personally feel like getting b-roll live makes a video much better than staging b-roll. Once we got all the b-roll and the interview, we wrote voice overs. Similar to the last project, they were difficult because its hard to find a way of transitioning to what the interviewee is going to say without actually giving up what they are going to say. After that it was the easy parts. Editing wasn't to hard, but i think my L&J edits could have been better.

     During this project, I learned how to frame an interview properly, and that is important because in almost every project, there will be an interview from a person about that topic. Another thing I improved on was the sound quality with the mics. And the final thing I learned how to do was to get b-roll from a live event without getting in the way.

     For my next project i think i will continue to work on framing my interviews better and to get more of a variety of shots when I'm out getting b-roll.

     Finally i think this project was good at learning how to do J&L edits and framing an interview correctly!