THE VIRTUAL INTERVIEW: LEARN IT, SHOOT IT, SHARE IT!
Ages 16-29
Spring 2021, Online
In this short, concentrated clinic, student fellows will refine virtual interview skills, so essential to good storytelling and filmmaking under social distancing guidelines. Using their own home settings as sample “studios,” they’ll experiment with backgrounds, angles, lighting, and sound, developing their awareness of what makes for the most accessible, appealing image and the highest fidelity audio. They’ll then practice interviewing and directing one another, and discuss options for achieving best results. Consideration will also be given to interview practices: advance preparation, open-ended questions, and engaged listening. As they learn, they’ll select footage of their experiments and create a short, instructional video to be shared on the program website and at a public screening. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Julia Golonka is an editor and cinematographer with a degree in film from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has worked on documentaries covering a diverse range of topics, most recently Anatomy of Wings, a film twelve years in the making about an after school program that became a family.
Michelle Mokaya is a Johns Hopkins University undergraduate in the School of Engineering. Although her concentration is still undecided, she is passionate about using her degree to work on sustainable projects that could help improve the lives of those in marginalized communities.
