From the course: The Art of Video Interviews

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Couples

Couples

Female 1: When you interview a couple together, it can be a real challenge. And I'm not just talking about married couples. I'm talking about two people who work together all the time, or a mother and a son, or a father and a daughter, whatever combination. Of people who are familiar with one another. I usually find that there are two styles in this situation. There's the interrupter and the takeover. The interrupter means that there's somebody in that couple who tends to interrupt the other person and start cutting them off. And they sometimes will interrupt one another. And that can be great and kind of fun on camera, but it can also be really challenging. So you want to be sure to prepare your audio person, to be sure they understand there's going to be overlap. And you also want to be sure to prepare the camera person, that they may have to capture shots in a couple of different ways during a master wide shot. And then going back and actually re-asking some questions to get…

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