Our workshop this week mostly centred around planning for our upcoming video and how to best capture an authentic and engaging interview on camera. As we know, the editing process is highly critical to cultivating an interesting and differentiated point of view. We can layer multiple materials together and use a diversity of techniques and content to create a textured representation of our chosen individual.
Before the editing process can commence, however, we need to clearly define a ‘good talent’ that can deliver on camera, is credible and has something worthwhile and significant to say. This probes further questions, such as who is the audience and how will the subject provide something of substance for them to listen to?
I have already collected my interview content and am excited to pull it apart and construct my representation in Premier. My interview subject is a friend names Kris, a very eccentric and gregarious individual who, similarly to myself, had moved from Brisbane a few months ago. I knew that Kris has the personality to deliver in front of a camera and that that he has an inviting energy about him that an audience is likely to respond well to. Additionally to this, however, I felt as though basing a discussion off of why he moved to Melbourne (and why the city underpins values particularly valuable to him) would deliver would deliver relatable content that a lot of young people would be able to relate to.
The questions start quite general and centre around the theme of moving to Melbourne and reasons for doing so. What is is about Melbourne that is so different about elsewhere in the country and what can the city offer to newcomers that other cities can’t? Why does Melbourne celebrate diversity and individualism so much more than other cities? As we progress through the interview, the questions and answers become far more specific and start to discuss Kris’ wanting to emancipate himself from the conservative and rigid constraints that Brisbane, despite having developed so much in the last few years, does impose. Going into more detail, we briefly delve into his sexual orientation (as he does identify as being gay) as being the basis of him wanting to move here, as Melbourne is such an open-minded and accepting place.
I’m highly confident that the footage – including video – collected during the interview phase compliments the subject matter at hand and the audio that I have recorded as well. My intention is to tie these two elements in together (being video and audio footage) and layer the former atop of the latter. Moving onwards into the next phase of production there are also windows of opportunity that I can see within the footage to weave in music clips, to further enhance the overall ‘atmosphere’ of the piece. This will also help to shed greater light on Kris’ personality and produce an all-round, balanced albeit entertaining representation of who is he, what he values and how he has found his place within Melbourne’s multifaceted and open-minded culture.
