Shooting for the interview was quite different from our other projects we have done in class. It is a lot more difficult in my opinion, because you can’t control what the person is going to say and how they are going to say it. It’s hard to get good clean sentences, especially to open and close the interview video. However, I did enjoy asking questions and getting to hear the responses. It was hard to think of questions that would result in the most interesting information, but I found that just a few good questions allowed for the interviewee to expand on them quite a bit. I also found slight difficulty in shooting a variety of different shots of the actual hobby. Because the hobby I am interviewing about is jigsaw puzzle-building, it is mostly just sitting at a table trying to find pieces. I did my best to match what I was recording to what was said in the interview, but I feel I struggled with getting more interesting shots that didn’t look like every other one.
I think I did well with setting up the interview shots themselves, with the positioning and lighting. I tried to utilize what I had. I found an old ring light, but it was quite bright so I ended up using a dim lamp to counteract the dark shadows it casted like we learned in class.
Audio wise, I struggled the most. I don’t have a microphone, so I attempted to use a secondary phone to record the audio closer up. However, the phone I used was a bit older than mine, so the audio sounded much worse than the one that came from the one recording the video. Because of that, my audio is not as clear as I wanted it to be. Still, I did my best to utilize premiere pro’s noise reduction effects and clean it up the best I could. Next time I will definitely be testing my audio recorder before I use it.