Codes and Conventions of Filming and Editing Interviews.

• In interviews we have seen usually a medium shot, medium close-up, close ups of the interviewees for example in Jaws when the producer is being interviewed there is a medium shot showing his shoulders and above.

• Interviews of the interviewee are framed towards either the left or the right and use a variety of both left and right throughout the interview this also allows the viewer to watch the interviewee and the mise-en-scene behind them e.g Matt Groening is sitting towards the left with characters from the Simpsons on the right behind him.

• The framing follows the rule of thirds eyeline and it is roughly a third of the way down.

• The mise-en-scene in the interview must be relevant to what the interview is about or it would not make sense e.g Jaws interview show pictures of the sea and sharks and in the simpsons interview there are pictures of the simpsons.

• In order for it to be clear to see the interviewee you must never film with a light source behind the interviewee.

• Always brief your interviewee on the questions before the interview so you can not hear you asking them making the interview flow better.

• An interview must include cutaways in order to make it more interesting to watch for the viewer eg. in Jaws there are cut aways that show the sea, still of the novel and stills of footage from the film.

• There must always be graphics in an interview in order to know who the person being interviewed is, all the graphics have to be the same in font, colour and size and they also have to be the same length e.g in jaws the graphics where blue with red writing the font was the same size and they appeared for the same amount of time.