-What Didn’t Work Well

– The lack of shot changes, there were where a rather unconventional shot was used for a significant portion of time. I think around the 4 minute mark, the camera really looks up at my face, on maybe a 65 degree angle, though this is a good shot to use quickly and sparsely to have a whole conversation with that one shot doesn’t really work. Its type of shot that (for an interview) gives me too much of an on screen presence.

– We needed too shoot more of Mitch as the interview. When he asked me a question and I answered, I was the only on screen. If I had my time over I would have shot Mitch asking the questions and then move the camera to focus on me my answers. I would have also gotten shots of Mitch nodding or looking interested too intercut with the footage of me answering the questions.

– The framing for the shot of Mitch interviewing Ali should have been a bit tighter-it was nicely symmetrical but just that little bit too loose, the microphone also wandered into shot.

– The transition from my interview too Ali’s, I didn’t fade the colour grading of Ali’s shot so it kind of looks like the frame just gets a whole bit of blue randomly dumped on it.

 

What Did Work Well

– I think the framing of Myself and Mitch at the beginning of the interview, and the tighter shot of me at ‘1 minute 50 sec’ looked quite good, almost as if I was on Today Tonight.

– My transition fade, from the shot at 0:14-0:16 worked well. I also added a bit of blue to Mitch’s opening, which created some nice contrast between the opening and the interview.

– The drums in the background I think had nice levels, they weren’t too loud but they were loud enough.

– I thought the acting/interview was quite good, well delivered, decent content.