Comm Lead Program - Fall 2014 - COM 583

Lighting, Interviewing

Week Four

Advanced Multimedia Storytelling:

People And Story

NATURAL LIGHT

★No equipment required

★Don’t need a power source

★It’s naturally diffuse

★It feels “normal”

★It changes over time

★There might not be enough

indoors

★It’s not there at night

★You can control the level or temp.

Pros:

Cons:

NATURAL LIGHT SAMPLESOne Shot Two Shot

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT

★Complete control of level, temperature

★You can create a style

★When done right, it looks amazing

★Set up time

★Lots of equipment to buy/haul

★Distracting for subjects

★Difficult to execute

Pros:

Cons:

LIGHTING SETUP

LIGHTING

★Keep it Steady

★Light from the side

★Subject looks across

★Get good sound!

★Watch what’s

behind

★Background Depth

SETTING UP VIDEO

INTERVIEWS

RULE OF THIRDS

WHITE BALANCE

COLOR CORRECTION

★It ain’t magic

THE SINGLE SOFT BOX

SOLUTION

TWO CAMERA INTERVIEWOne Shot Two Shot

Intimacy

Emotion

Up-Close

Body Language

Surroudings

Wider

ADDITIONAL MEDIA

★Family Pictures

★Other Photos from Creative Commons

★Contextual News Reports

★Historical/Archived Material

★Documents

★Animation/Art

SOURCES FOR

ADDITIONAL MEDIA★Archive.org

★Creative Commons

★Youtube (w/License)

★Getty and other stock footage

companies

★Federal Government

★Fair Use

INTERVIEWING 101

INTERVIEW REVIEW

CUTTING DOWN CLIPSSo what we’re looking for is vehicles lingering in areas

commonly used by smugglers or drug dealers. We’re looking

for aberrant behavior, people looking over their shoulders,

that look lost. Commonly when people come across they’re

wondering am I in the US yet? Looking around. People

wearing a jacket in the middle of summertime. People

walking around with luggage or bags. And walking along the

side of the road in Canada. These are some of the things we

notice that would qualify as suspicious behavior and that

would require us to take a look at once they’re in the united

states

AUDIO EDITING EXAMPLE

BERMUDEZ: We’re looking for vehicles lingering in, in areas

that are commonly used by, by smugglers of humans, drugs,

other contraband. We’re looking for aberrant behavior,

people wearing you know a jacket in the middle of

summertime. People, people walking around with, with

luggage.

IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWING

CASE STUDY

ASSIGNMENTS

Monday, Oct 27th

• Kalow Chapter 3:

Finding the Story

• Watch Charlene Strong

on The Moth

• Watch Dock Ellis and

the LSD No-No

• Capture a scene of

someone doing

something, including

multiple shots, and cut

it together with audio of

an interview or music.

(peer review)

• Project Update #1

• Come prepared to tell a

short story about

yourself out loud to your

classmates

FEEDBACK CARDS

• What have been your favorite/least favorite

aspects of class meetings so far?

• How are you feeling about your project? Which

aspect are you most nervous about? Which

aspect are you most confident about?