People & Story Class 4: Lighting and Interviewing
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People & Story Class 4: Lighting and Interviewing
- 1. Week Four Lighting, Interviewing Advanced Multimedia Storytelling: People And Story Comm Lead Program - Fall 2014 - COM 583
- 2. NATURAL LIGHT Pros: ★No equipment required ★Don’t need a power source ★It’s naturally diffuse ★It feels “normal” ★Cons: It changes over time ★There might not be enough indoors ★It’s not there at night ★You can control the level or temp.
- 3. NATURAL LIGHT SAMPLES One Shot Two Shot
- 4. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT Pros: ★Complete control of level, temperature ★You can create a style ★When done right, it looks amazing Cons: ★Set up time ★Lots of equipment to buy/haul ★Distracting for subjects ★Difficult to execute
- 6. LIGHTING
- 7. SETTING UP VIDEO INTERVIEWS ★Keep it Steady ★Light from the side ★Subject looks across ★Get good sound! ★Watch what’s behind ★Background Depth
- 10. COLOR CORRECTION ★It ain’t magic
- 11. THE SINGLE SOFT BOX SOLUTION
- 12. TWO CAMERA INTERVIEW One Shot Two Shot Intimacy Emotion Up-Close Body Language Surroudings Wider
- 13. ADDITIONAL MEDIA ★Family Pictures ★Other Photos from Creative Commons ★Contextual News Reports ★Historical/Archived Material ★Documents ★Animation/Art
- 14. SOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL MEDIA ★Archive.org ★Creative Commons ★Youtube (w/License) ★Getty and other stock footage companies ★Federal Government ★Fair Use
- 15. INTERVIEWING 101
- 16. INTERVIEW REVIEW
- 17. CUTTING DOWN CLIPS So what we’re looking for is vehicles lingering in areas commonly used by smugglers or drug dealers. We’re looking for aberrant behavior, people looking over their shoulders, that look lost. Commonly when people come across they’re wondering am I in the US yet? Looking around. People wearing a jacket in the middle of summertime. People walking around with luggage or bags. And walking along the side of the road in Canada. These are some of the things we notice that would qualify as suspicious behavior and that would require us to take a look at once they’re in the united states
- 18. AUDIO EDITING EXAMPLE BERMUDEZ: We’re looking for vehicles lingering in, in areas that are commonly used by, by smugglers of humans, drugs, other contraband. We’re looking for aberrant behavior, people wearing you know a jacket in the middle of summertime. People, people walking around with, with luggage.
- 19. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWING CASE STUDY
- 20. ASSIGNMENTS Monday, Oct 27th • Kalow Chapter 3: Finding the Story • Watch Charlene Strong on The Moth • Watch Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No • Capture a scene of someone doing something, including multiple shots, and cut it together with audio of an interview or music. (peer review) • Project Update #1 • Come prepared to tell a short story about yourself out loud to your classmates
- 21. FEEDBACK CARDS • What have been your favorite/least favorite aspects of class meetings so far? • How are you feeling about your project? Which aspect are you most nervous about? Which aspect are you most confident about?
Editor's Notes
- I need to send a list of students to Scott after class today, so let me know if you’re interested. Students will have access to all tutorials
- 6-630 Could see this working for your project. Best of -- My Grandma Says. So what is it: Just a song and Gifs News Report March on Washington: http://zeega.com/153873 Emphasizes how audio drives the narrative. Interactivity. Just that simple act of clicking takes the passivity out of video.
- 6:30-6:45 Sarah gives general feedback
- 6-7 How do we decide what kind of light to use? Pros and cons
- We’re not going to spend to much time on using nat light today, so let’s review: If I was going to use natural light, for instance, going to interview someone at an outdoor event, what are some tips to follow? Put them in the shade Don’t backlight, don’t overhead (light from the side) Watch your temperature What about indoors? Put them by a window, but leave the other light in the room on (or bring them closer) Don’t backlight
- This is the most basic lighting setup — but also it’s complicated.
- Let’s try it ourselves. First a little review
- As soon as we get started using artificial light, we’re going to have to start thinking about it. Elicit, what is white balance? You can normally use auto, but you might want to set it yourself.
- Color correction can solve some white balance issues after the fact. But not all of them. Barzan…
- 6-7 If we want to make things easier on ourselves, we can mix natural and artificial by using a single source of diffuse light plus other existing natural sources Set your adjustable color temp light to match the dominant source of light in the room. LED’s are naturally diffuse, but we want to add even more.
- If you can, two camera interviews give you something to cut away to. Wider 2 shot for body language, they can also roam for details Easier editing b/c you can make jump cuts with the audio Notice how both cameras are on same side in both cases. Sometimes long dist between the two, sometimes short. Even if you’re doing one cams, think about which of these you’re trying to get. Also think about the zoom on the one camera interview
- til 7 Time to start thinking about how you can get these. Cite examples of each in Barzan: Family Pics (don’t be afraid to take video/pictures of photos) Scanning is dead Archived: Iraq, Pakistan, 9/11 Sound CC Photo of sillohette guy News reports from Youtube Footage of Iran Iraq War Court documents shot through camera
- til 7 Fair use: If you’re altering it in a fundamental way (shot through TV) If you’re commenting on the original piece of media If you’re using it for a purpose other than that which it was originally intended (CBS footage at the end was borderline)
- Til 9 Sometimes hard to get--but makes editing SO MUCH EASIER> Play two cuts - Bermudez story with/without Room Tone. Start at 25 secs if running low on time.
- Til 9 Video Portrait -- like we took their snapshot, but over time. Remember seeing this in Barzan? What we really want is them thinking about what we were talking about Sometimes this just happens naturally. What’s he thinking? We already talked about how we need to get room tone, and getting people to sum up, and getting a vid portrait -- so there’s a great way to do that all at once. Show Iraq Video portrait.
- 715-745 Go over interviewing 101 as a larger group and discuss -what stood out? -what was surprising? -what do agree with/have experience with? -what is unclear/do you disagree with? Turn and talk: *share an awkward or confusing interview situation you’ve experienced. What did you learn from it? Or what questions do you still have? Share back with the larger group.
- 745-845 Critique each one for content, then composition and audio. If anyone who didn’t share wants specific feedback, email us and ask.
- til 9 You’re not just getting people to talk to you. You have to be listening for useable clips. They’re not always obvious, but w practice you’ll know them when you hear them. what you see here is the tape log - We can show some Barzan tape logs to illustrate the same things.
- til 9 OK now let’s listen to the edited version. Edited version is about 1/3 the length - but you still get all the info. Can you think of anything that was missing from the edited cut? Presumably not - and it’s the test of a good edit. Clip is cut down to 0:18 -- 1/3 of the length!
- 9-945 *What did you notice about the interviews? --interviewers voice on screen (why?) --seem like we had spent a lot of time together? How? --Did he always seem believable? *What circumstances made these interviews difficult? --what I thought when I first went to meet him (example of pre-expectations) --emotional connection with interviewee/spending lots of time together --controversial topic (addressing sensitive issues/allegations) --in Northern Iraq (call to prayer) --deciding when to ask the tough questions --personal stuff (w/ Mali and Nicole) --interviewing a kid (Arvin) *examples of building report --pictures --can tell we spent a lot of time with them given the b-roll we have *ethical complications of liking the person you’re interviewing/developing relationships *Good types of questions to ask (that stood out to you from the interviews) --take me back there/re-enactment (w/ Nicole) --give me three reasons/ideal solution (w/ Sam) --how did you feel (w/ Arvin) --it looks so bad (w/ Sam) *What general questions do you have? We’ll keep referencing our experience w/ Barzan throughout the quarter so hopefully you’ll be glad you watched it.
- 7:15-7:30 (bathroom break after til 745) Respect your sources (they are doing you a favor so respect their time and be sensitive to their needs/values but remember that they said “yes” to you b/c they want to do this. If you act too cringing and apologetic they won’t trust you). Be flexible to their schedule. Send a thank you. Be Prepared for Emotion: Often in this field you are dealing with people in emotionally intense circumstances (lost jobs, traumas revisited, vulnerability) be prepared for people to cry or get angry and allow them to. Represent yourself honestly and professionally: For this class you can say that you are working NDM but when you are freelancing or “on spec” you have to reveal that to sources (you can say “I’m freelancing but in conversations with NYTimes about placement”) Don’t take things personally: People are wary of the media/journalists, they’re also often emotional about what they’re talking about/showing you. The challenge of being a journalist is finding a balance btwn being present and authentic and remaining neutral/retaining journalistic distance.
- 9-920
- All til 9 Skip this quickly
- til 9 Look at my equipment. Quick checklist. Tripod/Monopod for stabilization Natural Lighting Shotgun straight into camera. Shotgun or built in on external recorder, in camera for backup. Shotgun for ambient and wireless lav into external recorder for talking Syncing is not that hard if you’ve got a native channel
- til 9 (last slide) Syncing is not that hard if you’ve got a native channel
- 815-900 Pair people up. Capture at least 10 full sentences Remember to listen to what they say so you know what’s good later. Take notes We have to get good audio, so go out in the hall Short character study: interview your project partner and pull out one anecdote that reveals an unexpected truth or backstory that reveals something about their character. Come back after for debrief: 9:30 Was that hard? That’s why you need a helper
- 945-950 Kalow 3 = finding your story Strong and Ellis are to get us start thinking about how we put stories together
- time valve
- Set up the camera, let the action happen in front of it
- Or if they’re your family or friends they get used to you. How does Sarah feel here?
- Kneeled Down
- Think about depth -- more than one element in the photo
- Think about framing Look at professional photos, almost always many layers and stuff cut out of the frame.
- Other secret tips
- Approach your video just like a photo the moving photograph (aka Rock shots) images where you cant tell if its a still or video -- makes you look harder. Can you see the motion Keep the camera still
- What do you notice about focus in the picture? Thats what depth of field means You can control it with the F Stop. Size of the little hole light goes through. Bigger, more light, less depth of field Don’t need to know why, just know it will make you look pro.
- Compare these two. Which has a shallower “depth of field” You can control it with the F Stop. Size of the little hole light goes through. Bigger hole, more light, less depth of field. Don’t need to know why, just know it will make you look pro.
- You can adjust f-stop on most cameras. On HV30 if you go into manual mode.
- Lower F stop number or use the flower icon. Also allows for low light shooting Again here, showing something our eyes can’t see.