The document provides filming guidelines for interviews, recommending filming subjects in medium close-ups, using cutaways to illustrate points and avoid jump cuts, and displaying graphics identifying interviewees. Proper mise-en-scene and framing techniques are also outlined, such as keeping the subject's eye lined at 1/3rd down the screen and ensuring they look at the interviewer rather than the camera.

2. Mise-en-scene reinforces the content
of the interview or is relevant to the
interviewee.
Filmed in medium close up’s.
Cutaways to break up the interviews
and illustrate what they’re talking
about and to avoid jump cuts where
questions are asked.

3. Archive material.
Questions asked are edited out.
Graphics saying who is being interviewed.
Framed either to the left or the right of
the screen.

4. Eye lined roughly 1/3rd down the screen.
Interviewee always looks at the interviewer
NOT the camera.
Never film an interview with a light source
behind them.