codes and conventions of an interview

1. CODES AND
CONVENTIONS OF AN
INTERVIEW

2. • Framed to the left or right of centre.
• Interviewee is on a stationary chair.
• Camera is on a mount of tripod.
• The rule of thirds is used – eye line is 1/3 of the way down the screen.
• Medium close up is the most common shot.
• Close up, big close up and medium long shot are sometimes used.
• Interviewees do not look at the camera.
• Narrow depth of field

3. • Names and relevance to the topic appears on screen.
• Graphics appear on the bottom left or right of the sceen.
•Title font is carefully chosen.
• Questions are edited out.
• Cutaways used to break up interviews.

4. • Achieve material is used. Examples of this are personal photos, clips from films,
screenplays and books.
• Mise - en -sen in interviews meant that the objects in the back relate to the topic.
• Non diegetic sound is sometimes used.