The previous research I have done on interviews has been largely chat shows where you can see the interviewer and hear the questions being asked. The format and style seems more like a friendly chat, which is far from what we are trying to do in these Access interviews. These videos are more like an informative interview where the question in contained in the words being spoken by the person that the camera is focused on and comes across as if the person is trying to tell you something.
An example of this I am going to analyse is from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, a program about the news and there is a segment which is similar to the style of what we are trying to achieve.
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21E0EwXWiAM&feature=PlayList&p=6DD223447015D017&index=17
Nick Davis on Journalism and 'The Dark Arts':
1 minute 27 seconds - Opening shot of the subject
The opening shot shows the subject of the interview on the left side of the screen looking right across the empty space. He is sitting down in a relaxed manner. The scene is darkly lit to convey a 'menacing' tone and the background is sympathetic because the dark empty hallway also looks menacing.
1 minute 29 seconds - Lower third comes in to tell us the subject's name
1 minute 32 seconds - Lower third disappears
1 minute 35 seconds - Cut to close-up of subject's head
1 minute 40 seconds - Cut back to regular shot of subject
1 minute 42 seconds - Cut to cutaway
1 minute 45 seconds - Cut to subject
1 minute 50 seconds - Cut to cutaway
1 minute 53 seconds - Cut to subject
1 minute 57 seconds - Cut to cutaway
1 minute 59 seconds - Cut to second cutaway
2 minutes 1 second - Cut to subject
2 minutes 7 seconds - Cut to cutaway
2 minutes 9 seconds - Cut to second cutaway
2 minutes 10 seconds - Cut to third cutaway
2 minutes 12 seconds - Cut to fourth cutaway
2 minutes 17 seconds - Cut to subject
2 minutes 19 seconds - Cut to cutaway
2 minutes 22 seconds - Cut to subject
2 minutes 28 seconds - Cut to cutaway
2 minutes 30 seconds - Cut to second cutaway
2 minutes 33 seconds - Cut to third cutaway
2 minutes 37 seconds - Cut to fourth cutaway
2 minutes 40 seconds - Cut to subject
In just over the first minute of this clip there are 21 cuts, mostly taking place between the subject and a cutaway. Occasionally there is 1 cutaway shot and then back to the subject but on several occasions it cuts from one cutaway to another totalling in up to 4 cutaway shots. These shots contextualise and show what he is talking about, so they are very appropriate.
