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Thanks Bill,
Your comments make good sense to me. I think I knew from the
beginning that I would need to find a camera operator, but have been
resisting it. Now I'm going to put out an APB for an operator
The interviews are going to be fairly improvised anyway, so I'll
definitely need to be fully present with the process. Having a camera
operator should give me more interesting and less static shots as
well.
Love
Crow
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> Crow,
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>Personally, I consider on-camera interviewing one of the most difficult of
>skills to master. Actualy, I guess if all you aspire to achieve is to read
>a question and have someone spout a lukewarm response, it's fine. But
>that's not really "interviewing." Real interiewing is a much subtler art.
>You need to be totally engaged in the moment. You need to watch your
>subject's responses. If they're nerveous, calm them. If they're evasive,
>build trust, and if they're motor-mouths - find a way to move them toward
>short, simple answers that you can actually USE.
>
>Most of the great interview responses I've gotten came because I followed
>up on some little thing that came up during the interview.
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>If your brain is checking framing, worrying about the white balance, or
>thinking that maybe you should stand up and zoom in a little since your
>subject is getting passionate about the subject and you'd like to push in
>to give the audience a chance to see more of the emotion on his/her face,
>you're NOT listening.
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>So my suggestion would be that while YES, it can be done. It's NOT the
>path to great results. Not unless you're working with subjects that are
>used to being interviewed and can deliver canned content on cue.
>
>Plus, and this is the big one - If you're not concentrating on the
>INTERVIEW skills part of the equasion, how are you going to learn to be a
>BETTER interviewer?
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>What you're suggesting is that it's OK to split your attention between two
>difficult tasks, because you're willing to settle for mediocre results on
>BOTH.
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>Doesn't sound to me like a very good way to develop your skills.
>
>My 2 cents anyway...
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>If you aspire to be a realy good interviewer - start studing and
>practicing INTERVIEWING.
>If you want to be a camera operator - start studing and practicing THAT.
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>Hope that helps.