Conducting an interview can be a very nerve-racking and scary experience. You have a big responsibility to conduct a successful interview and to ensure that you receive the best response, for example, asking appropriate questions. Interviewing can be very difficult to get right, particularly if you have a subject quite unwilling to open up. Without some professionalism, a little engagement and the ability to set your subject at ease, then your interview might not go as well as anticipated. In this blog, I have summarised a few tips that I discovered in a how to conduct an interview video blog, which was created by a video production company.
A simple question normally aids the subject to relax. You don't need to use it in the final edit, but the most important matter to result from this, is ease throughout the interview. Even if they get the question wrong then it means that you can all have a laugh and a joke about it, generally just developing a more relaxed atmosphere so the interview can benefit as a whole. In addition to this, it is important to allow the subject go through their stuff once or twice, to allow them to warm up. Then from the point of view of the camera operator it is definitely worth capturing more than one run to ensure there is enough material to go through.
The set-up of the interview is a basic yet major matter to remember. It's recommended that you have someone sat next to the camera, either from your team or, preferably someone the subject knows, asking a few questions so that the subject isn't having to deal with the pressure of looking directly at the camera. It also means that they do not need to freak out speaking to the camera, talking to another person is much less difficult. By doing this they are able to also imagine that they are having an casual question and answer session rather than an interview, also making it easier for the subject to keep eye contact with the interviewer.
By keeping answers short and in context, this allows much more flexibility and ease in putting it all together when it comes to the final edit. In particular if you have got more than one camera rolling. When I say 'in context', I mean getting the subject to use company names rather than 'we' and perhaps even asking them to begin an answer with the question - that is if you don't want your own interviewing voice incorporated in the video - that way it is always clear what's being discussed about.
Leading an interview is not a simple task but once you get the hang of it after a couple of times it can be made really enjoyable. Personally I believe that a lot rides on the person you are interviewing and how they react and there personality.
A simple question normally aids the subject to relax. You don't need to use it in the final edit, but the most important matter to result from this, is ease throughout the interview. Even if they get the question wrong then it means that you can all have a laugh and a joke about it, generally just developing a more relaxed atmosphere so the interview can benefit as a whole. In addition to this, it is important to allow the subject go through their stuff once or twice, to allow them to warm up. Then from the point of view of the camera operator it is definitely worth capturing more than one run to ensure there is enough material to go through.
The set-up of the interview is a basic yet major matter to remember. It's recommended that you have someone sat next to the camera, either from your team or, preferably someone the subject knows, asking a few questions so that the subject isn't having to deal with the pressure of looking directly at the camera. It also means that they do not need to freak out speaking to the camera, talking to another person is much less difficult. By doing this they are able to also imagine that they are having an casual question and answer session rather than an interview, also making it easier for the subject to keep eye contact with the interviewer.
By keeping answers short and in context, this allows much more flexibility and ease in putting it all together when it comes to the final edit. In particular if you have got more than one camera rolling. When I say 'in context', I mean getting the subject to use company names rather than 'we' and perhaps even asking them to begin an answer with the question - that is if you don't want your own interviewing voice incorporated in the video - that way it is always clear what's being discussed about.
Leading an interview is not a simple task but once you get the hang of it after a couple of times it can be made really enjoyable. Personally I believe that a lot rides on the person you are interviewing and how they react and there personality.
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