Codes and Conventions of Filming and Editing Interviews

• Questions never shown - edited out
• Mid shot of interviewees
• Posters of film in background - mise-en-scene - relevant to topic
• cuts to archive footage and photographs
• Interviews sat one side of the screen - postitioning. However if there's more than one interview it altnerates
• Cuts between different interviewees talking about same subject
• Presenter - Direct address
• Interview people in the street
• Interviewees filmed in medium shot, medium close up or close up
• Name and occupation for each interviewees - graphics
• Positioning of the interviewer is therefore important. If the interviewee is on the right of the frame then the interviewer is on the left of the camera and sat as close to the camera as possible
• Framing follws rules of thirds - eyeline of interviewee roughly a third of the way down the screen
• Interviews are never filmed with a light source behind interviewee
• Cutaways - illustrate what they're talking about - for example: archive
• Interviewees all sat down