Documentary AS task

Codes and conventions.
In media we watched two documentarys (shown below) to help us in looking at the codes and conventions of an interview.





simpsons 20th anniversary special 3d on ice part 1.



codes and conventions of camera angles
interviews-interveiws use a mid shot camera angle. This is because it shows outfits and gives room to show body language, movement and gestures etc. The person being interveiwed is on either the left/right hand side of the screen never directly in the middle. It is also rare that they should look directly into the camera, to look more natural they should be looking at the interviewer who is in the opposite side of the shot. The lighting is always behind the person being interviewed as the shot would be ruined infront of the person. also the lighting should be natural to balance the room they are in. The eyeline must be a third of the way down on the screen.



Camera should be mid-shot view of interviewe.

Lighting comes from infront of person being interveiwed.

capture should be taken directly to the left or right of the screen- the person being interviewed shouldn't be looking at the camera.

Eye line should be approx a third of the way down the frame.

cutaways (buffers) used to hide jumpshots.

Jumpcuts should be avoided when the questions are edited out and questions are usually edited out.

Background should always be relevent to what the interiew is about.

Graphics should alwayts be included like titles and subheadings ( names and purpose of hte interview)




To making this interview documentary .

We chose to film our interveiw on a blue screen so we could change the background in editing. We had problems with this as the shirt the interviewer wore was also blue so the chrome key didn't work how we hoped in our editing but this is something we can correct for the next time we use it.