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Okay, feedback -- I hope you understand that I'm not trying to cut you down, just trying to mention things that I think need your most immediate attention.
Put your camera on a tripod, and once you've set up a shot, leave it be. Frame it up to get a good almost-but-not-straight-on shot of your interviewee. Nobody cares about the interviewer. Get him out of the shot. Your interviewer is not a celebrity. Nor is he Brooke Burke.
Unless you're making "Wild On", or something to that effect, you should only be collecting straight interview footage, and lots of it.
Use sound-bites. We don't need to see 60-seconds of almost-raw footage, for each interview. We should race back-and-forth between related sound-bites, from seperate interviews, that once pieced together will form a narrative. You should be saying something.
What are you saying, with this documentary? You should always be saying something. Specific. Focus.
@ 4:10 what is a torry??(ms), based on the video, I gonna guess conservatives?? .
Real feedback?
1) Bad low light characteristics. Just shoot under optimal daytime conditions.
2) Get a guy with a boom shotgun mic.
3) Think up much better questions.
4) Edit out yourself. Less you, more of the best answers.
5) Interview 100 people to get 10 good quotes, not vice-versa.
6) Get some perspective on what's important and what isn't.
Oh and Murdock, you make me laugh 'what is a torry?' Cute