Session7: Field Production: Lighting, Audio, Composition

Schedule

Please let me know your tentative schedule. I will plan to be available in the market throughout the day. You will be able to call me at: 425-417-3024
            You may want to plan a short meeting at the beginning of the day to review your pre-production notebook, plan your day and practice with your equipment.

Interviews

Each member of your group should try to find someone at the market that you can ask a series of open ended questions. You can conduct four different interviews with the same person on different aspects of a topic.
Try starting your questions with:

• Can you explain….
• Describe …..
• How do you feel about….

Make sure to get a model release from this person.

Broll

Of course we have some photographs from our first trip to the Market but we will now want to get additional footage that will help us tell our story. Look for interesting angles, slow pans of products, signs, and people doing their jobs. You should also think about the noises that make up the market and record some of the audio that can help to tell your story.
*Read “Video Editing : Plan A: B-roll” Videomaker Magazine for more ideas. Well worth the subscription price.

Tips

• Use your tripod
• Try to find a good location for the interview
  • Quiet
  • Good lighting
  • Interesting background
  • Room for your crew, tripod and the interviewee
• Have the interviewee look at the interviewer not the camera
• Ask the interviewee to restate the questions in their answer
• Listen to the response and ask directing questions
• Pay attention to the audio (show them how to hold the microphone or hold it for them – 4-6 inches from their mouth, slightly lower)
• Try to establish a pause before they answer the question and then before you ask your next question. It will make it easier to edit. (head & tail)