From the course: Video Journalism: Storytelling Techniques
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From the course: Video Journalism: Storytelling Techniques
Getting great sound bites
It's best to use people to tell some or all of your story. For that to happen, you need to get good interviews, good sound bites in TV news jargon. Some interview subjects are professional sound bite providers, but most folks are not seasoned interview veterans. So in this video I give you a few tips on how to get tasty bites from regular folks. (video playing) My basic approach is to try and avoid doing an interview. I want it to be more like a conversation. I want to put people at ease. That's one reason I use the shotgun mic on the camera. It makes it easy to get quick bites without the formality of interjecting a mic between me and the interviewee. For planned interviews, I put a camcorder on the tripod and then kind of stand or sit off to one side of it, try not to look into the viewfinder all that often, and just chat with the interviewees. One other thing that made this interview go smoothly was that Will Russ leaned on the rock wall. It's just more comfortable to lean on…
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