The document outlines conventions for filming interviews, including using medium shots and close-ups of the interviewee, cutting away to illustrate points and avoid jump cuts, and editing out questions. Interviews should be framed to the right or left, with the interviewee's eye line a third of the way down and looking at the interviewer rather than camera, and avoiding having a light source behind the interviewee.

1. The codes and
conventions of filming
and editing interviews

2. • Mise en scene re en forces the content of the
interview
• Filmed in medium shot/ medium close up
• Cut aways to break up interviews and
illustrate what they’re talking about and to
avoid jump cuts

3. • Archive material
• Questions are edited
out of the interview
• graphics saying who
is being interviewed
• They are framed to
the right or the left
of the screen

4. • Eye line is 1/3 of
the way down the
screen when
being interviewed
• Interviewee looks
at the interviewer
not at the camera
• Don’t ever film
the interviewee
when they have a
light source
behind them.