Filming Day Planning

Planning for Interviews

Prior to planning for the filming day, I learnt about how to conduct an interview and some dos and don'ts.

Good Interview:
- Listen to the person you are interviewing
- Ask follow-up questions so that you can explore interesting topics
- Ask open-ended questions
- Ask relevant questions, research about the area beforehand
- Make the person comfortable
- Have warm and welcoming body language
- Take notes, with a notebook

Bad Interview:
- Ask close-ended questions
- Follow a laundry list of questions
- Not listen to your interviewee
- Speak really quickly
- Ask tough or intrusive questions
- Mispronounce the person’s name

Then we put these newly learnt skills into use by role-playing an interview.
I pretended to be a manager of a cafe and was interviewed about how we donate our leftover food to Feeding Hong Kong

Filming Day Planning Document

Time	Interviewee and Location	Useful B-Roll Shots to be taken	Questions to be asked of interviewee	Technical Issues and Actions to take
11 am	Paul Melsom Classroom or 1st Floor Balcony	Plants in the first floor balcony People eating food during lunch Chartwells Bokashi bins at the back of the school	Can you briefly describe your work and your role in Island School? How serious do you think the problem of food waste is? What would you suggest others to do in order to decrease food waste at home and at school? How can schools in Hong Kong develop their waste collection systems?	Issue: A lot of background noise Action: Record with a microphone or record audio separately Issue: Shaky camera Action: Use a tripod Issue: Interviewee having trouble looking at the camera Action: Have an interviewer in the shot too so the interviewee can look at the interviewer, so that it will be more natural
Afterschool (Monday)	Community members Hong Kong- Festival Walk Three adults	The scenery around Hong Kong Action shots of people at the park	Introduce ourselves: we are a group from Island School researching about food waste in HK, are you willing to be filmed? How much do you know about food waste in Hong Kong? What do you do to reduce the food waste you produce?	Issue: Background noise Action: Record with a microphone or record audio separately Issue: Shaky camera Action: Use a tripod Issue: Interviewee having trouble answering in detail to our questions Action: Prompt them