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My name is Owen Roth, and in this clip, I'll be talking about how to plan for a video interview.
Planning is key, just like any other thing, whether it's a video, or any other project
you're working on. You want to plan it. And when doing an interview that can mean a lot
of things. That can mean how many cameras there are going to be, what locations you're
going to use. How the interviews are going to be implemented in the video you're making,
whether it's just an interview. You're just making a video that's is an interview and
only that, or whether you're making a documentary that interviews are going to be put in with
B roll footage, and other footage. So you want to know why you're interviewing, how
it's going to be implemented. Is there going to be music to go along with it, titles, graphics,
all those things. Because all of those things are going to affect how you're going to create
the video, and how it's going to interact and edit with those other aspects. And also
you want to know what questions you're going to ask, obviously. But what responses you
expect, and the tone of the interview, who you're interviewing. How you expect them to
react, their energy level and everything, because that can dictate how you light them,
how you choose your background, your location, and all of that. So planning is key. And I
know there's a lot of things so the best is to keep your options open and not lock yourself
down to something. Pick a location where you can change the background fairly easily. Bring
multiple options for recording audio in case one doesn't work. And, preferably multiple
cameras and all of that, so you want to have a basic idea, and you want to leave your options
open. So when a problem does arise, you can work around it.