On 29/1/10, John Coyle, discombobulated, unleashed: >Brilliant! I've been interviewed twice on local TV, and I now refuse to do >the "walk" which every interview seems mandated to include (Cotty?)
You mean a shot of the interviewee walking along? Basically needed to overlay a line of intro into the interview. An alternative is a 'two- shot' where the camera moves back and gets a hot of both interviewer and interviewee from behind the interviewer. The problem with this is that if the interviewer is not the person actually 'pulling the package together' (later editing it and voicing it) then it might be a different sex reporter. Looks better to have the same sex person voicing the item and stood in the 2-shot. I know one or two politicians who refuse to do a walking shot because they actually rarely get used - more of a safety shot than anything. But if you don't do them and they need it in editing, the cameraman will get bollocked. It is easy to do a walking shot poorly, which is why they look crap. Mine are always brilliant of course ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
