Conducting an interview is generally a really nerve-racking and scary experience. You have got a large responsibility to conduct a professional interview and to make sure you receive the best response, for example, asking appropriate questions. Interviewing can be quite challenging to get right, specially if you have a subject quite reluctant to open up. Without some professionalism, a bit of engagement along with the ability to set your subject at ease, then your interview may not go as well as predicted. In this blog, I have summarized some tips that I recently found in a how to conduct an interview video blog, which was created by a video production company.
To begin the interview a simple question or general conversation often helps the subject to relax and ease into the interview. It does not matter whether they get the question right, in this case you can all have a bit of a laugh and joke about it, again easing the whole experience. This does not have to be used in the final edit. Not only this, it is quite important to let the subject go through there stuff two or three times, so they are able to warm up. Also it is important that the interview is shot more that once so that there is more than enough footage when it comes to the editing, the worst thing is not having enough material.
Secondly, it is a good idea to keep answers short and in context, this benefits the editing stage because it allows greater flexibility and ease in putting all of the footage together, this is even more important when there is more than one camera rolling. Also, by in context, I mean getting the subject to use company names instead of 'we' and perhaps even getting the subject to repeat the question when beginning the answer. This is only if you do not want the your voice, or the interviewers voice to be in the video.
By keeping answers short and in context, this enables a lot more flexibility and ease in putting it all together in regards 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 instead of '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.
To begin the interview a simple question or general conversation often helps the subject to relax and ease into the interview. It does not matter whether they get the question right, in this case you can all have a bit of a laugh and joke about it, again easing the whole experience. This does not have to be used in the final edit. Not only this, it is quite important to let the subject go through there stuff two or three times, so they are able to warm up. Also it is important that the interview is shot more that once so that there is more than enough footage when it comes to the editing, the worst thing is not having enough material.
Secondly, it is a good idea to keep answers short and in context, this benefits the editing stage because it allows greater flexibility and ease in putting all of the footage together, this is even more important when there is more than one camera rolling. Also, by in context, I mean getting the subject to use company names instead of 'we' and perhaps even getting the subject to repeat the question when beginning the answer. This is only if you do not want the your voice, or the interviewers voice to be in the video.
By keeping answers short and in context, this enables a lot more flexibility and ease in putting it all together in regards 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 instead of '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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