Quick Tips for Video - Shooting the 2 Person Interview With One Camera
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2012
- This video demonstrates how to shoot a two person interview with one camera so that the final result will look like it was shot with three cameras simultaneously.
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From experience I've noticed that broadcastey terms like "Action" and "Cut" only make interviewees nervous by constantly reminding them that they *are* being filmed. Such terms are necessary with big casts, multiple actors, props, lighting, stage hands etc. But with nice intimate interviews such as this one, most of the time the interviewees are ordinary people, experts only on their own subject, and will not be at all used to being filmed.
I found we had much better results of keeping them comfortable and their flow natural by adopting a much less-formal 'relationship' with them. Simply using the word "Okay..." or "Okay, and..." (gesture subtly with index finger) reduced their anxiety considerably and they always quickly realise that you mean for them to stop or to begin "action"!
Saying things like "moving camera" is totally unnecessary in such an intimate context, and again only draws their attention to them being filmed.
Other times for particularly nervous individuals, we would prep our interviewer to just begin a conversation, and with simple eye contact and discrete facial gestures, our interviewer would simply flow into the topic and specific questions without the interviewee noticing that they were in fact, being recorded at that time. After a while they would completely forget, they become far more natural, more vibrant and passionate in their answers, the rapport between interview and guest came to life, and it made for FAR MORE compelling viewing complete with all the specific info. we needed answering; simply because the person being interviewed had become truly relaxed.
Hope this is of help to anyone.
This is the most helpful RUclips video I have seen in a long time. This is exactly the kind of interviews I have been shooting for work and we have always wanted to add extra cameras, but can not afford it. This will help us out a lot!
Thanks for the comment. Hope you use this technique for your single camera interviews. The camera is a Canon XH-A1. Cheers!
That is so easy, but how many people would have thought how to do that??? Thanks very much for posting!!
Excellent job at demonstrating this very useful technique - thanks!
This is the best trick/tip I've seen on video production yet. thanks for sharing
Thank you for the tip. Can be really helpful when using one camera.
Just bought your book on my Kindel and it looks like it is exactly what I need. Thanks!
Great technique. Thanks for sharing! 😀
This video is very helpful! Thanks!
That was great. Just learned a good trick. Thanks
Really helpful information here...thank you for posting.
Awesome tutorial. Thank you!
Thanks for the video. Keep them coming :)
Excellent information. I got an A on my interview project thanks to you!
Glad it helped. It really is a good formula for that type of interview. Congrats on your A.
That was so frickin' awesome. Thanks for this. I was wondering if this was possible. ^_^
This video helped me,Thanks
wow this is a great idea!
I appreciate this video thanks
Thank you Mike...
amazing , thank you
Thank you so much - For my school Project i want to do the same interview like yours - thank you so much for this detailed statement
Outstanding
So great tips!! I really like it
Glad you like it. Hope it's of use.
I have multiple cameras but this helps. thanks.
There are a number of small, battery operated mixers out there you could buy. Mine is an ARTcessories Pro Mix. You could plug two or three microphones into the mixer and the mixer's single output goes to the camera's mic. in.
Very helpful, thanks
Glad you like it. Hope it works for you. It's worked many times for me.
Great demonstration! I've done similar things myself, and of course this trick is quite common during the making TV programmes. For example, when someone is talking in a car and then the outside shot as the car zooms by. Finally, is that a Canon XF100 on the video?
Glad you find my video useful. In the fall I hope to post more. Thanks for commenting.
When we see the interviewer while the interviewee is talking it usually comes from the "re-ask" reel. This video shows the interviewer asking each question (the interviewee may be long gone by then) and then several sconds of nodding, smiling or just looking in the direction of where he interviewee was.
So, when you cut to the interviewer during the interview it's using he re-ask reel.
Yep. :)
Great! Hope you enjoy the book, get some good information from it . . . and get filming!
Thankyou bro. Thank god.
Great. I hope you get a lot of use out of this technique.
This is good for a quiet indoor set but how can you do this outdoors where there is ambient noise in the background? Do you have to use the three camera setup then? Do you cover this in your training DVD?
This quite helped me for a school thingy :p
If there is a lot of noise outside you might have a problem with a truck sound in the two shot and no truck sound in the close-up. You just have to choose your location where it won't be as much of a problem sound-wise, record a lot of background sound after the interview is finished to help in editing - or shoot it indoors. It's not a perfect technique for outdoors.
Good stuff. I have a question regarding the audio set up. I saw two receivers on the camera. How are you recording that audio? I am trying to figure out a way to do that but I am struggling on the solution.
The 2 receivers were for each of the two wireless mics. One in Channel 1 and one into channel 2 of the two inputs into the camera. If your camera has only one input you must use a mixer to mix them both into one signal.
What is a good software to use for editing videos?
The interview itself is not important. This is meant only to demonstrate how to stage an interview to appear to have been shot with three cameras.
As to the camera angle on the camera operator . . . what framing would you suggest. Remember - he's bending over, so shooting from higher up will only feature the top of his head. That's why my camera on him is a low-angle.
Nice work! It occurs that the re-ask and reactions could be shot while interviewer is listening to the recently recorded audio from the interviewee-acting and response might feel more natural? All in all, I'm renting camera 2 for important dates.
If you have 2 cameras it's much easier, but many interviews use this 1 camera shooting. 2 cameras are not only more expensive you'll also need to hire an extra operator (unless a locked-off camera works for you). Playing back an audio channel would be done from the guest camera I assume. But we usually have the questions written down ahead of the interview so the host can just re-ask from a script. An off-camera production assistant could take notes of changes and ad-lib questions for the re-ask shoot. Easier than having extra audio getting int he way of your re-ask shoot. If you can afford two cameras then certainly go for it. It makes the shoot much quicker - especially for the editor.
This is a neat little trick specially if your interview and most important interviewee has patience to stop . I have to film Kamaliya from meet the russians in 2 weeks such a high profile celebrity i dont think she will have teh patience to be stopping and for me to move tripods set up shot again and restart. Goin to run a central camera, a 2nd camer on the left side copped in to the celebs face for when she replies to questions. and the just for generic shots i will to extra shots on the cmaera phone from far using a steady cam holder just to break down the views. Gona be tough but if you have multiple camera men its easier. The techiniue used in this video is great and goes to show hollywood movies and true cinemaography is not really what you see. tricks to make things look different
I have one camera, how do I get two wireless mics on one camera? I only have one port for one mic. How do I record the sound of both people for an interview using one camera?
I am planning on conducting an interview. The location will be in the interviewee's office. Would it look unprofessional to only have 2 shots (the 2-person view and the interviewee view)? I do not want to inconvenience the interviewee with a shot of me doing the 're-ask.' Is it just a matter of preference?
You could put your second camera slightly 3/4 behind the person you're interviewing so you can see part of his/her face with the interviewer mostly toward the camera. That way you can have a two shot when the frame is wide and a closeup when zoomed into the interviewer.
Between Two Fellows
What's the best audio set up for a two person interview?
Probably to put a wireless lapel mic. on each. Or, you could use a shotgun on a mic. stand - right down the middle from about 5 feet away - low enough to be out of the camera's wide shot. Unless, of course the interviewer waves a hand mic. back and forth. I prefer the lapel mics option.
+Russ Tanner I have 3 ZOOM H1 and 3 lap mic, so I connect on each guess one lav-mic with a ZOOM H1...Then I load and fix everything in post, that way you wont worry about losing signal
I have a question! what do you call that technique when the interviewee are talking but the video shows the interviewer instead? thank you in advance.
It's a cut-in. A cut-in is a cut to another person or object that's in the same location. A cut-away (another type of shot) is when we go to a shot from another location that relates to what the interviewee is talking about.
+Mike Hughes That really useful info. Put in a simple way. Thank you. ^_^
Do you mean that the sound is not working - or that the lip sync is off. I just played it through and found the sound to be fine. Maybe a slow computer or internet link is causing a lag in the sound for you(???). Do my other videos play properly for you?
If ya got 2 cameras - use 'em. It'll sure save time. This technique is for people who don't have 2 cameras to use. You could still shoot the 2 shots separately.
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the sound is off
Obviously this technique is used when a second (or even third) camera is not in the budget. Remember each camera will need an operator and will need to be rented or purchased. That could be even more money. If you have multiple cameras and operators then by all means shoot multi-cam.
I hope you get a lot from the book. If you have any questions go to my web site at mikesdvp and use the contact field on the last page.
This was 10 years ago!? Jesus. I honestly thought it was a parody. If I delivered anything like this I'd never work again.
If anyone is looking at for advice now, please ignore it. Look at the background, the lighting, the edit, the plant, the insanely cold camera operator etc.
hahaha... the audio at the end.
😂 wtf
ummm. yea. what about when there is more than one questions. uuuuuuuh
Ah you mean like a follow-up question. Hmm... Then this technique would be difficult to employ. Will require acting frm both the interviewee and interviewer, at least.
I believe we had more than one question in the example given. The only "acting" is on the interviewer's re-asks. He pretends to look at the interviewee (who might have left by then) and re-askes the same questions. Watch it again.
Well - aren't you the media mogul! I suppose that you have unlimited funds for renting or purchasing cameras but many productions are done on a lower budget that will only allow the use of one camera. It is for these people that I've created this instruction.
You (and your insulting language and brain-dead attitude) aren't welcome here.
This concept sucks because you have to keep stopping.
I used this technique dozens of times when I worked in television and hundreds of times since. How else would you shoot an interview and have the finished project look like it was shot with multiple cameras? If you have a more efficient way of doing it please be helpful and share it.
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It's not really that much stopping, according to me, given ure using 1 cam. Quite efficient in that you do the intro n extro in 1 shot. Then u do all the interviewee responses and then the interviewer asking and nooding. So total of 3 shots. If u were shooting like a film or smin, this wud be nothing in comparison, I think.
If you can afford 2 of the same quality though, then that is more efficient obviously. This is intended for those with limitations in that regard. :)