From the course: The Art of Video Interviews
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Getting lower thirds in the field
From the course: The Art of Video Interviews
Getting lower thirds in the field
Female 1: Lower thirds is something your editor is going to struggle with if you don't help them out by getting them in the field. It's really important at the top of every interview to get the person's full name, and make sure you find out if there are any nick names they want to be. So they want to be Robert Bob Smith, or do they just want to be Bob Smith, or they never want to be Bob Smith, and they only want to be Robert Smith. Find out if there're any special precursors before the title, or after it. Are they PhD, MD. Some people have a lot of letters after their name that they need. So try to get that clarified. Get it in your digital file, so when you're editor's bringing up your footage, bingo, they've got all the information. Right there. The other thing that you might want to do is have the person spell all that information. I know some names seem really obvious but, pretty much the one that you forget to get spelled is the one that gets misspelled on the screen. So, help…
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