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 If interviewing a group, they may talk amongst themselves during the interview.  This can give useful footage, and more honest opinions than might be achieved from a direct question.
+More tips from a training session.  Probably one given by Anna Bucks's mum:
+*  Find a good background for interviews
+*  Good shots/pans fro narrating over, ie a GV; General View
+*  Sound bites, sum up a lot of views quickly
+*  Piece to camera at end of report to conclude
+*  'Vox Pop' = Voice of Population.  IE people in the street, no particular authority
+*  'Nat Sot' = Natural Sound.  Used for a pause to separate sections
+*  For editting, including an emotive interviewee is more interesting than bland factuals one.  Can fill in facts by narraitng etc.
+*  'Sequences', eg camera focuses on an arbitrary moving thing to caprue the setting.
+*  Talk to interviewee before interviewing, makes them comfortable, arrange what direction/course they interview takes.
+*  Make sure interviewee rephrases your question in their answer.  (IE not a answer such as 'yes', but one such as 'yes, the sky is blue')
+*  Have camera at eyelevel of interviewee
+*  If interviewer also in shot then both at same level, eg sit down
+*  Alternatively interviewer next to camera for best direction of their eyes relative to camera
+*  Short answers from interviewees are easir to edit and follow
+*  After conductinf an interview, film cutaways etc.  Shots of them in a natural pose, activity etc.
+*  Don't open with familiar, cmmon shots, start with something new and attention grabbing.
+*  Pieve to camera in the middle of a report means emotive interview could be used to end the report.
+*  "How do you feel about..." can get good emotive response, but don't include the question in the edit.