This week I had the opportunity to help document youth unemployment for a youth centre in the western suburbs. Just a little background into this project: the documentary aims to give people perspective from the current youth on the challenges in employment sector today. Through multiple interviews we hope to send out the message to the masses to eliminate the stigma that young people today are lazy and refuse to find jobs. There was plenty to learn from this experience in regards to camera work and interviewing.
In terms of how the interview footage looked, it was framed in this similar fashion.
We followed the rules of thirds and made the background as minimalistic as possible. Overall we attempted to achieve a basic aesthetic look so that we could focus on the subject and his or her message.
In regards to the interviewing process, we had a list of default questions, but for the majority of the interviewees we did whole heap more of adaptive questions. This process required a lot of on the spot thinking and careful listening.