Music Interview Research

Due to the unavailability of most of the members of ACM Gospel Choir we have had to push back our filming by one week. Though this in one respect is a pain, I feel it has given us more time to prepare for the interview with the Music Director Mark de Lisser, as it is the main spine of our documentary I am quite happy that we have been given more time to prepare for it.
We have the interview question pretty much sorted but it is the style of filming the interview that I feel needs more thought. For this I have been looking into existing examples of music based interviews.




The key thing I take from this interview with Paramore is that it looks like there is no one there asking the questions, it is the answers given by the band that form a the narrative of the feature.I like the camera style used on 4music, part of Channel 4 in particular their use of close up camera shots as it makes them seem more personal. I feel this is something we should aim to recreate in our filming. The intercutting of the interview with performance footage also reinforces the message that it is all about the music.



This second interview with Placebo (starting at 3.50) takes the one on one format but also has some interesting shots it is worth taking note of. The one thing I feel about this interview that would be hard to carry out ourselves but would be impressive if done properly is the fact that the camera is always moving, giving us constantly different angles of the interviewer and interviewee. This interview differs from the first also in that there is no background music so there is less distraction from Brian Molko's answers.



This third interview with Kings of Leon from the BBC at Glastonbury Festival has a more basic set up and is not set in studio has a more amateur look, only using one camera is still very personal in the way that the footage looks like something any one of us could film yet it is people we potentially idolise being filmed. The basic nature of the shot types and framing is something we can take note from when following choir members around and capturing impromptu footage.