The codes and conventions of filming and editing interviews

• 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

• 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

• 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.