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DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING - THE BASIC RULES OF INTERVIEWING PEOPLE

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Overview

DOCUMENTARY FILM INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES

Have you ever wondered how documentary filmmakers manage to get their subjects to open up their personal lives on camera? There is nothing more absorbing than seeing people talk about their deepest felt passions and convictions.

There is a great degree of skill and dedication involved on the part of the interviewer in getting interviewees to comfortably talk with a camera facing them and recording everything they say.

In this course you will learn some of the techniques you can use to unlock your interviewee and give you, the filmmaker, those gems that will allow you to develop a strong documentary narrative.

Syllabus

  • Interviewing Skills For Factual Filmmaking - Introduction
  • Lesson 1 - Interviewing - Getting Under The Masks
  • Lesson 2 - Interviewing - Three Types Of People
  • Lesson 3 - Interviewing - Finding The Real Person of Interviewing - Building Your Cocoon
  • Lesson 4 - Interviewing - Four Key Aspects
  • Lesson 5 - Interviewing - Some More Skills

Taught by

Hein Ungerer

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