The document discusses several conventions used in documentary interviews, including positioning interviewees off-center following the rule of thirds, using graphics to identify interviewees, capturing subjects in midshot and closeup camera shots, choosing visually interesting backgrounds related to the interview subject matter, and employing cutaways and b-roll footage to help edit the interviews.

1. INTERVIEW CODES AND
CONVENTIONS

2. RULE OF
THIRDS
In the documentary for the interview
setup it uses the rule of thirds. This
means that the interviewee is always
looking off camera and is not directly
talking into the camera. They are
positioned on either more to the right
or more to the left hand side of the
camera and not central

3. GRAPHICS
In the documentary graphics
are used throughout during
the interviews this is to show
the interviewees name and
their relevance to the
programme e.g. david
brown, producer.

4. CAMERA
SHOTS
The shots that have been
used during interview
setups in this
documentary is midshots
and closeups.

5. BACKGROUNDS
The backgrounds that have
been used in this
documentary are always
related to the subject and
are always visually
interesting e.g. the sea,
posters, sharks mouth.

6. OTHER CODES AND
CONVENTIONS
Some other codes and conventions that have
been used in this documentary is that the
interview is a’roll and there is cutaways which is
b’roll, also other relevant footage is used to
cutaway from the interviews to help with the
editing process.