CONDUCTING THE INTERVIEW

Help and Assistance:

Mark Pollak (www.clifton-media.co.uk) has made available an extremely useful page on how to set up the camera and how to improve lighting and sound at this address.

http://www.clifton-media.co.uk/homefront/examples/examples.asp

Procedures to follow:

All interviewers must take with them the following forms:

1. Interview Summary Sheet

2. Copyright Assignment & Consent Form

3. Interview Proforma

4. Video Camera Check List

5. Conducting the interview guide

Forms 1, 2 & 3 should be signed and returned along with the interview recording to Christine Thornhill, Project Manager at the Heritage Centre.

RECORDING EQUIPMENT

All the recording equipment is available from the Adult Education Centre - Anthony Gell School,  Wirksworth.

Please contact Eileen Kirk on 01629 824158 to book equipment and arrange collection.

N.B.  All equipment must be returned for the Wednesday Video Training Class.

EXPERIENCES FROM INTERVIEWERS (for help and discussion)

John Windsor reports "First, I forgot to take drop-in shots of hands, etc. If the interviews are used I think I shall have to go back and get some.  Although the subjects sensed that a connected narrative was called for, the best material from both of them is in two or three different sections, prompted by my requests for clarification.  As a print journalist, I'm impressed by the difficulty in getting short, uninterrupted takes that tell the whole story.  Since the interviewees stay in the same position the whole time I think this might make editing difficult without drop-in shots.  I've seen edited TV interviews where the shot angle stays virtually the same and different bits are spliced together with fades, but it looks a bit unnatural.  Worth discussing, perhaps".

CONTACT

If anyone is ready to make an interview please contact Chrissy as soon as possible on 01629 825225 or  07968091277

email  homefront@wirksworth.net

East Midlands Oral History Archive

www.le.ac.uk/emoha