About the course
Interviewing subjects can be a daunting task and technique and style changes from film to film. Understanding your subject, style and intention is key to how you approach an interview.
This course can also be taken as part of the Documentary Filmmaking Foundation Certificate.
Who should take this course?
This course is for anyone interested in making documentary style films. Whether you are a complete novice who is interested in getting started or whether you are an experienced videographer who wants to take the next step.
What you’ll learn
In this class we will look at:
- Research and interview preparation
- Earning your interviewee’s trust
- Representation of interviewees
- Open and closed questions
- Asking difficult questions
- The Sucker Punch
- Communicating with your crew in difficult situations
- Soundbites and how to get them
About Tom Webb
Tom Webb has been a professional filmmaker for the last 20 years, working in the entertainment and corporate sectors as well as making his own passion projects. Tom has a holistic approach to understanding the whole production process which he puts to use working for clients and making short and feature length documentaries. His feature length documentary The Easy Bit can be found on YouTube.
Tom’s Social Media:
Personal Twitter: @TomWebbFilms | Personal Instagram: @TomWebbFilms
The Easy Bit Twitter: @theeasybitdoc | Instagram: @theeasybit | Facebook: facebook.com/theeasybit
Did you know?
- Raindance members save 20% on How Filmmakers Make Creative Criticism Work
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- We don’t teach ‘filmmaking’ at Raindance. At Raindance we make filmmakers.
charlotte Sullivan –
Excellent highly recommend
Siobhan Bauer (verified owner) –
An absolute must if you plan on interviewing a subject for your film!
Symon Lord –
This session gave me a very useful overview of all the nuts and bolts of conducting interviews for documentary.. I am going to watch the recording to take detailed notes on the parts which are of particular relevance for me… I would highly recommend this online session….
Dorian Munro –
Incredibly useful session about interview techniques, learned a great deal about how to approach sensitive subjects as well as gained useful insights on how to correctly film and work with people.