When reviewing my groups interview exercise, I was honestly quite pleased with the result. The interview itself is based around a single primary angle, a secondary close up of the same angle, and two miscellaneous B-roll type shots which establishes the setting and the interviewee. The primary shot I am extremely happy with; the scene has a nicely balanced natural light and the café setting is very obvious with the display fridges clear in the background. Besides a minor issue of reflections in the steel panels, I think this shot formed a good basis for the interview. The audio quality is overall good, with only slight gaps in sound, and the editing has been done in a logical manner.

What I will say is that while I am happy with the result, the interview does very little to set itself apart from other similar videos of comparable quality. It follows a very standard question to answer structure, with a seated interviewee and a simple one on one discussion with the interviewer. While this format is surely popular for a reason, and it serves our purpose in creating a friendly discussion type scenario which clearly conveys information, it does very little to grab the viewer’s attention. From the examples shown in class, its clear that the most engaging and dynamic interviews are the ones that follow a unique structure, or find some other way to break out of the norm cast by our typical idea of an interview. With some additional planning and time I believe there is a lot of room for our exercise to become a lot more unique. One example I had was to have us follow Aria through an area with a lot of restaurants, street food stalls or produce markets, and have her sit down and try some of the food she mentions as part of the discussion. Giving the viewer a good representation of the subject matter by visually showing it on camera and filming the reactions from the interviewee would help to give some more substance to the spoken material, as well as break away from the generic interview structure.