Demonstrate your interview skills in iMovie
How to interview a subject and capture cutaways to create a slickly edited sequence
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Many news and documentary programmes contain interviews. To make a standard ‘talking head’ style interview look more interesting, you need to shoot cutaway shots. As well as adding visual variety to a programme, cutaways help illustrate what the interviewee is talking about. They can also be used to hide jump cuts where you’ve chopped out the boring bits in an interview. Thanks to the iPhone 13 Pro’s Cinematic mode, you can also pull focus from foreground to background subjects. Ultimately, you can use our techniques to interview someone and create an eye-catching sequence on social media.