week 9

This week we tried to shoot an interview. The main point was to see the necessary distance between the talkers, and also the distance between the talkers and a camera, so that the sound is relevant.

We separated into groops of 2-3. And i was with Oksana. (as usual)) We went to another empty class room in IBS, and began shooting. First, we settled upon shooting Oksana and me sitting right by the camera and interviewing.
Important thing we learnt was to ask open questions, such as Tell me about your future plans, or What were your thoughts when you did this and this, etc. The open questions work more for giving a direction to go for the interviewee, while answering the question he can start from one point and end with absolutely another one, discussing very interesting and personal views on smth.

Well, while interviewing Oksana we didn't go too deep into these questions, but we tried though. And it worked well, i think.

The second shot was about us sitting on a table right by each other, keeping the necessary distance (so that we both fit into the frame), talking to each other and the camera as well. )) We also tried to move our hands in space we had between us, so that it doesn't disturb the other person. And this also worked quite well.

And so the lessons we got from this day were:
-how to set right the camera, taking into consideration the quality of the sound, and at the same time keeping both the interviewer and the interviewee within the frame;
-what kind of questions the interviewer should ask;
-which way to look while answering a question for better look and sound;
-how we should use our hands in the interview,
etc.