CCR part 1

For my first CCR, I decided to go with an interview format. My sister was the perfect candidate for this, since she is visiting from college right now and not only has a lot of free time, but loves being in front of the camera and "acting". I needed someone who was not afraid or embarrassed to act like a host or an interviewer, so this worked out perfectly. 

I started by using my dining room table to set up what I thought was closest to an interview set.

Inspiration:

The first thing I noticed is that in a lot of interviews, both people seem to have some sort of drink or matching cups. I decided it would make mine more realistic if I added this to my set. They also have minimal decoration, and everything is kept neat and close together. The tables are matching, and there is a table in between them. Here was my final set:

I have two matching mugs on each side, and a simple centerpiece. I decided to add the camera because the interview is related to film, so I thought it would be a nice touch.

The hard part of this interview was coming up with my script to answer the questions. I did not want to rant for too long, because that would make the interview boring, and I wanted to not only answer them creatively, but I had my sister switch up the wording to make it less stagnant but still fully answer the question. Here was my final script:

I didn't memorize it word for word, which you will see in the final project since I switch some things up, but it was a general outline of what I wanted to say and it helped me out. My sister also did me a favor and got me a little microphone off of amazon that plugs into phones, which made the audio quality of the CCR amazing. We each had it clipped to our shirts throughout the interview, which I also think added to the realness of it. 

For the framing of the shots, I put my sister in the right third of the camera, and she put me in the left third. This made it obvious that we are having a face to face conversation.

Throughout the video, I used VN, the same editing website I used for my film opening, to include light background music, as well as clips from my original project to add context. I did not add many other images, since this is an interview style video rather than just me talking to the camera. However, when I was talking about different inspirations, I added small images of the movies and genres I was talking about during the question. Filming this was a really fun experience, and not only helped me to reflect on my overall project but taught me about filming interviews and informing an audience about your overall process in a creative way.