In addition to interview footage, you will want to capture b-roll for your film.
B-roll is supplemental footage that can be intercut with interviews and narration to add action, context, imagery, and visual and auditory variety alongside the interview.
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What do you want to film? In addition to interviews, you’ll want to get establishing shots and other footage that gives the audience a sense of where different moments are taking place in a physical and emotional sense. Exteriors of places where interviews take place can make good establishing shots, for example. But also look for interesting scenes in the city, town, and/or natural world around your interviewee. When possible, film the interviewee in some of these places.
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What types of shots do you want? You’ll not only want a variety of b-roll footage, you’ll want to capture that footage using a range of shots, such as long, medium, and closeups shots, from a variety of angles.
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