On Tuesday this week we viewed a few examples of of how to go about getting the best answers from your subjects whilst interviewing them. This is obviously an important part of documentary making and actually quite an acquired skill even though it may seem easy at first. I’ve still got a long way to go before I acquire this skill I think. I sometimes find interviewing quite daunting even though the spotlight isn’t on me. Im just overly wary of making my subject feel uncomfortable or overstepping boundaries etc. In saying that, we did actually discuss the ethics of interviewing our subjects as there is a line that can be crossed if you’re not careful.

In class on Thursday, we had a guest, Julio, come and give us an intensive camera-tech lesson. He taught us how to set up the camera, check the white balance, use a boom mic and adjust the aperture settings. It was extremely helpful and cool to be using a different camera to the usual DSLR.