5 Tips for Awesome Interviews

1. Plan for your Interview:

When you start the process of making a story a main focus of having a successful story that is completed on time,  is to plan and prepare. Plan: plan Who your going to interview and how many your going to do, plan where you are going to set up the interview and plan for it to fit the situation of your story. Plan your questions when interviewing. You don't want to go to an interview and take up their time and your own just thinking of questions to ask.

2. Prepare for your interview: 

When you are going to start your interview you don't want to be unprepared an have no equipment or anything set up. Make sure you are prepared to have your camera, SD card, battery, tripod, lights, sound...etc.

3. Have Good Lighting:
When starting your interview you want to have good lighting. When starting your interview make sure you pick a place that has good lighting. To make sure your lighting is the best use natural light. Look through the eye piece to look for true color.  Also make sure to white balance your camera.

4. Remember the Rule of Thirds:

When setting up the interview you want you make the shot is not perfectly centered. The Rule of thirds means the plane is cut up into thirds horizontally and vertically. When deciding where to the place the subject use the imaginary lines to your advantage. This will add depth to your shot and not make it so boring to watch.


5. Keep Quiet and away from Distractions: 
In the process of shooting your video keep away from a noisy or distracting place. You need to have good sound bytes in order to have that don't pick a loud place to interview. A noisy place may also distract your subject.

Prop Box Reflection:

The Scope of the project was to inform the Olathe Northwest Student Body of the October Prop Box nominees and winners and How they got to be nominated because of there acts of kindness around the school.

The Start of the production was getting a sheet of paper with a list of names of who was the October nominees and winners. Next we researched video styles to make are video like. So my partner and I decided to go up to the winners rooms and set up an interview date. Next we shot all the interviews and edited the video to be up on ONW Now.

I learned there are different ways you can edit your video story. The way we did it was we had 3 stories and we started of telling the beginning of each 3 stories then started to tell the middle of each the 3 stories and finally tell the ending of each 3 stories. I learned that you don't always have to stick to the book format you can get creative and do it a different way.

What I would do different next time would be get more sound bytes from the interviews. some didn't have good quotes or much to say so I would create more questions that articulate a longer better sounding answer. I would also set up the interview spot in a more interesting place.

What I would do same would be to do the same style. I liked the way we created a different type of video that was different in format I liked the way the video was made and how it was unique. It helped make a not so interested story, interesting to watch.

This will help me next time to make lots of questions so that you can have many answers to choose from because some may not be good. So next interview I will be prepared for that. Next interview will include a different interesting background which will enhance the story even more.