I treated my Individual Interview as more of an experiment than an assessment. This is because I opted to control the camera handheld rather than with a tripod. I decided this for two reasons; one, because I have little to no experience/skill operating a camera this way and two, because most of the content I naturally gravitate towards today is filmed handheld.

At first, I had a lot of problems. The camera (probably) weighs more than me, I wasn’t comfortable with my choice of functions and had to constantly change them, and I had to improvise quite a lot. But as the filming went on, I became more adept.

The content itself isn’t particularly interesting. I knew that it wasn’t of primary importance, so I asked my friend to (try) and replicate a rant he previously performed to me about his ex-girlfriend, her family, and how they relate to the Seven Deadly Sins. It couldn’t be recreated as we quickly learned it was an in-the-moment type rant. A lot of the footage is of him complaining about how difficult the interview is, so I thought I’d edit that into the final cut because it’s more honest and less contrived. I decided to film him close-up, and use the shadow of his hat over his eyes to create a mood.

The result as a whole was a pleasant surprise, as in the past I couldn’t really predict during the filming stage if the product would come out how I expected. I feel the focus was pretty good for a majority of the interview, the only thing I wasn’t *that* happy with was the exposure. It was okay, but there were some moments where the subject and background were over-exposed.