Practice interview

In the third week of the course, in groups we were told to do a practice interview in a documentary style about a students first day at Sussex. Using the interview techniques that we had been taught in previous weeks, my group and I went to my flat and interviewed my flatmate of his first day. I sat next to the camera opposite him and asked the questions to make it seem like he was looking into the camera even though he was making eye contact. We also used shot cutaway shots in a documentary style so that it wasn't just a constant interview. Also, before going straight into the questions that we were going to use as part of the interview, we asked general questions such as 'what did you have for breakfast' etc.so that it seemed more like a normal conversation than an interview. This helped a lot as when we started he was very aware of the camera but after a while seemed to forget about it. I feel like the shots taken were quite successful in terms of being documentary style as well as getting some good answers. We will be editing it together in next weeks class.