From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Audio
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Interview techniques
Rich Harrington: What's going to be important is eye line, and you really need to have a conversation between everyone involved. I've positioned my camera to get the best shot of Jason. Now what becomes really important is where the interviewer's going to sit. So if Rob sits too far to one direction, Jason's eye line's going to be off and we're just going to get hard profile or he's looking down. Or looking up and we're seeing nose hair, which is usually not good for an interview shot. So it becomes important that they're actually sitting with good eye-line. So Rob's going to sit really close to the camera, so that Jason here can be looking towards the camera. But not staring into the camera. And it looks awkward. And Rob's going to be at about the same height as Jason, so they're on similar stools, with good eye line. And when we do this, we're going to end up with what looks like a natural conversation. Rob's going to be serving the position of being the interviewer, or the…
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