Today, I had my interview with Frank Carlyle once again and it was a success. I set his chair in front of the paintings on the wall of Liverpool and the skyline of the city so the background matched the topic of Liverpool.
I set the camera on the right side of the interviewee and I sat on the left of the camera and asked him the questions and he looked at me and not at the camera and I asked the questions but I’m not in view and my voice isn’t heard. He would put the question into the answer so the audience knew what he was talking about.
I used a mid shot right throughout the whole interview, I got my friend to sit in the chair whilst I set it up so I knew how I wanted it. I used a mid shot for the interview because this is the classic shot used in documentaries when they have interviews. This shot is good for when telling stories which is what Frank does right throughout the interview and has a lot of hand movements which I got in the shot. When I am editing, I will have to crop the right side of the shot a little bit more because there is too much room behind him that got into the shot but it couldn’t be helped because of the space and where the lighting was in the room, this will also help the shot because it will look like has more looking room. I will also have to crop his head room as there was too much so the shot will look more like a mid shot.
The window was right in front of the interviewee and we opened the blinds up so that the room was lit up and the interviewee could be seen clearly on camera. Another reason why I filmed in front of the camera was so it looked more natural rather than being in a dark part of the room with he light on.
The audio in the interview is clear and isn’t muffled at all. The background is really quiet and there were no other sounds, I used a clip on microphone and. he clipped it towards the top of his shirt near his mouth so he can be heard loud and clear.
I used all the techniques I used in my Filming interviews with one camera research which is everything I have written above, I knew to use these techniques as well from the research I did on Idea Development – Interview research and the interviews I analysed in Interview analysis – The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann and Interview analysis – Leaving Neverland.
I asked him different things like name the most iconic places in Liverpool, information on the docks and how they effected the city and the different projects in the city and how they have affected the city.
Everything he spoke about including the history and the modern city, I will use my own shots and I will also use some archive of the docks in the early 1800s to now and the same with Anfield, Liverpool One and everywhere else he mentions in the interview when he names some of the most iconic attractions in the city.
I will use what he said at the end of the interview about it being one of the most amazing cities in the world because of its success and the things it has achieved with some of the most iconic places in the world. I will use this at the end to sum up the city and the documentary and use it sort of as the conclusion.
I had Frank sign a contributor release form and a location release form for when I filmed him the interview the first time, I didn’t get him to sign another one for the second time I interviewed him. A contributor release form is just to show that the contributor has given permission to be in the production and the location form is for the location being used, we filmed in his house so he has given me permission to film there by signing it.
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