Task One

1. Documentary Interview
Technique
Skills Workshop

2. Interviews
Interviews are integral to a documentary, most of
you will be conducting some sort of interview
within your piece.
If you are not using interviews the skills you will
learn here (framing, pacing etc..) will still help
you with your films

3. Handout
14 tips for interviews!
Read them through, know them. You will need to
consider all of these things before you shoot your
scene.

4. Task for Today
Next Thursday I will be your interview subject to
practice on.
You can interview me on a topic of your choosing, I
have know the topic first. You do not have to tell me
the questions.
You have 5 minutes to interview me, not including 5
minutes of shot set up time. We will then watch the
footage back as a class and critique the results.
You should start to come up with a topic and a list of
questions today. Tomorrow we will look at framing
and using the equipment we have.