Shooting My First Video Interview
The Mistakes I Made
Written on the 3rd of December, 2022
My friend, Falah AlHajraf, called me one day and asked if I could shoot an interview for him. The interview was to be displayed at a conference. I explained to him that this was the first time I had done this, and I did not own audio equipment, so it will not be up to the standard. He agreed and insisted that I shoot him.
I invited him to my home, set the location, and began shooting. I hadn't shot an interview before, so it was good practice. I noticed several mistakes afterward.
I wasn't using audio equipment and depended on the camera microphone. The camera microphone was so far away from my friend that it picked up his voice and the ambience around him, which resulted in his voice being quiet. When I tried raising his voice, it also increased the ambience. Using an external microphone would have solved the problem. I learned that you could get away with a bad video, but you can never get away with bad audio.
The second mistake was that the subject was close to the background giving an unflattering shadow on the background that is distracting. I should have moved my subject away from the background to solve the issue.
For improvements, I would have gotten multiple angles of the subject to create interesting transitions between the shots.
The Gear I Used
