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This online session is aimed at documentary film makers who want to get the very best out of their interviewees. It’s led by Nick O’Dwyer, described by the Mail on Sunday as “one of the best documentary makers and interviewers in Britain.”
Nick O’Dwyer has worked as a documentary director and exec for 25 years, making some of the most memorable and controversial films of that period. In that time, he’s worked for all the main documentary strands on all the main channels. For the past 16 years, he has been executive producer for Landmark Films www.landmarkfilms.com
The morning will be split into 3 x 1hr sessions to ensure plenty of opportunity for Q&A and breaks in between
The course will major on the people stuff - how to behave with your contributors so they feel safe to truly express themselves and how to ask questions so that your interviews become highlights of your films. Areas covered will include:
setting up an interview shoot without terrifying your subject
how to create trust with your interviewee
understanding your contributor so you can judge what will work best for them
how to ask questions to prompt revealing answers
how to ask questions so your editor will love you
the importance and influence of sound
your responsibility to your contributor – at the time and afterwards
how to ask the bleedin’ obvious without being rude
why do people talk in front of camera anyway – often about the most intimate or alarming of subjects