eHomemakers: Internship Guide: Filming

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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Conducting a Video Interview

Written by Tan Ai Jin and Lee Rui Ci

In your internship, you may be tasked to conduct interviews on people. The videos to be made can be about their profile, their lives, something they do or about their opinion on issues. It is extremely important for you to have some basic knowledge on how to film a good quality interview as the video will be uploaded online and will bear the eHomemakers brand. Here is a really useful tutorial on conducting and filming an interview.

Storyboarding

The first step is to make sure you are very clear and focus about the aim of the video. What is it about? Who will be talking? How is their language fluency? What they may be telling you? What they may not be telling you but the information is important for the video?

Write down some key points and key questions for the interviews. Use these as guidelines. Develop new and related questions as you listen to the interviews.

Filming

When filming an interview, follow the Rule of Thirds. You can also include variations to the angle position. Always use a tripod stand to avoid shaky videos. If you have to use a hand-held camera, position yourself correctly with a suitable posture and remember to lock your wrists.

Source: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/news/teaching-video-filming-tips

Voiceovers

You can record good voiceovers with your head in a box or covered under a blanket to block the background noise. This is a cheap yet good alternative if you do not have a good microphone.

Interviewing Techniques

- Here are a few pointers to take note:

- Always ask your interviewee to look at you instead of the camera.

- It is best to conduct the interview seated.

- Ask the interviewee to answer your questions in full for easier editing. Eg, ‘I am so hungry I can eat every thing on my plate’, not “I eat every thing ( to make the information more complete so that the interviewee does not answer your question with part of the answer, therefore making the sentence uttered very disjointed.)”

- Do not interject your interviewee.

- Make your subject feel comfortable as it is in this condition that a message can be conveyed honestly. Watch these video for more detailed explanations:

How to Interview Someone on Camera

Shooting an Interview

Here are some videos of excellent quality produced by eHomemakers interns that you can follow if not outperform. J

Pong’s Mom’s 2^nd Death Anniversary

Jenny Pong – Friendship Comes First

Jenny Pong – Her Eldest Brother

Monday, August 4, 2014

Conducting An Interview

Written by Tan Ai Jin and Lee Rui Ci

In your internship, you may be tasked to conduct interviews. It is extremely important for you to have some basic knowledge on how to film an interview of good quality as the video will be uploaded online and will bear the eHomemakers brand. Here is a really useful tutorial on conducting and filming an interview.

Filming

Source: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/news/teaching-video-filming-tips

Voiceovers

You can record good voiceovers with your head in a box or covered under a blanket to block the background noise. This is a cheap yet good alternative if you do not have a good microphone.

Interviewing Techniques

Here are a few pointers to take note:

Always ask your interviewee to look at you instead of the camera.
It is best to conduct the interview seated.
Ask the interviewee to answer your questions in full for easier editing.
Do not interject your interviewee.
Make your subject feel comfortable as it is in this condition that a message can be conveyed honestly.

Watch these video for more detailed explanations:

How to Interview Someone on Camera

Shooting an Interview

Here are some videos of excellent quality produced by eHomemakers interns that you can follow if not outperform. J

Pong’s Mom’s 2^nd Death Anniversary

Jenny Pong – Friendship Comes First

Jenny Pong – Her Eldest Brother

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Writing Subtitles

Subtitles play an extremely important role in helping to convey the message of a video to viewers especially when the language spoken in the video is incomprehensive to the viewer. Writing subtitles not only requires good listening comprehension but you can also pick up skills such as storyboard conceptualization and summarization. These are the important points to keep in mind when writing subtitles:

Make sure the first letter is capital and the sentence ends with a full stop (or ? /!).

Always be meticulous about grammar and punctuation.

Avoid lengthy sentences in a frame that stretches across the screen or takes up two lines.

Break a sentence into frames if it is too long.

You can break a sentence in one frame into two and connect the sentences with “... ...”.

Use a simple and clean font and a clearly visible font colour.

Delete unnecessary words. Subtitles should be concise without deviating from the actual meaning.

Do not translate utterings that do not contribute to the the meaning of the sentence like ‘lah’, “umm”, “I see” etc. Make the translation concise.

In this interview, Jenny Pong spoke in Cantonese. She said, “Saying sorry isn’t that difficult”. In fact, ‘not that difficult’ can be shortened to ‘quite easy’.

Condense proverbs or sayings of other languages to just their meaning. The other alternative is to translate the proverb/saying concisely and explain its meaning within brackets.

Allow longer subtitles to remain on the screen longer to allow more time for reading.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Video Editing Guide

Simple Video Editing

Writing Subtitles

Free Music for Videos

Free Music For Videos

1. Find free music for videos: http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos

2. Go to one of the recommended sites. Pick a suitable song.

3. Add it into video.

4. Credit the composer and source at end of film.