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Setting up the interview: Aesthetic

Setting up the interview: Aesthetic

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Setting up the interview: Aesthetic

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- Once you've decided where to interview the subject you'll need to make further choices about how you want the interview to look in terms of its mise-en-scene. One thing you'll need to determine is your framing. Most interviews are either medium shot or close-up, since these compositions focus on the subject with secondary attention to the background. Usually the closer the shot the more emotional impact the shot will have. So save those extreme close-ups for highly emotive moments. If it's important to capture the subject in the context of the environment then you can use a long shot or a medium long shot. And if you have the resources and crew recording an interview with multiple cameras gives you the flexibility in cutting back and forth between different sizes of shots, which makes it easier to edit the interview together without discernible jump cuts. Now one luxury of today's HD and ultra HD video capabilities is if you shoot the interview in a medium shot, for example, you can…

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