codes and Conventions of Filming and editing interviews

We wathed two extracts of documentries and establised the codes and conventions that make these documenties secuessful. We watched a five minute section of a Jaws documentry and a Simpsons documentry. Bellow are the following videos:

Jaws

Simpsons


Codes and Conventions of Filming and editing interviews:

Rule of Thirds: The screen is often split into three sections, it can vary from horrizontally to virtically, it is most often split into left, right, and centre.

Mise-en-scene: relevent to the topic which they are talking about.

Questions are often edited out.

Do not see interviewer.

Interviewee is normally sitting down and to the side of the screen so viewers can still see the mise-en-scene.

There is no light source behind them.

Graphics on screen to anchor person on screen.

Interviwee is the opposite side to the camera for example is the interview is to the right, the camera is to the left.

No direct mode of address, the eye contact it to the interviewer; not the camera.

The eyeline is upper half of screen.

cut aways are used most often they are:
archive suggested by somethin said in the interview
some are filmed with a different camera- for different shots.