How to Get Great Interviews for Documentaries and Reality TV Shows
Get great interviews? Many of you have asked — now we deliver! Here it is – your checklist for how to get great interviews for documentary series, reality TV, and doc specials.
Get Great Interviews that are Money!
Did we say money? As in the monetary unit of several former Spanish colonies? Why, yes we did.
Today you’ll learn tips and tricks that will improve your interview skills beyond those shown by many people already working in unscripted film and TV professionally, and pointers to ensure you get great interviews:
* The Acronym PESO and why Joke came up with it to get great interviews.
* The proper way to plan for your interviews.
* The interview responses that make all the difference — and HOW YOU can, and must, get them.
* The delicate balance between conversations and sound bites.
* How to avoid making your characters sound like robots and get great interviews instead.
* When it’s okay to break the connection with your subject.
* Keeping your subject in the zone.
Hit the giant PLAY button above and start to get great interviews today!
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Ready to create, pitch, and sell documentary series, unscripted TV shows or reality series and specials? From creating pitch tapes to meeting with TV networks, developing your ideas to discovering reality TV stars, this podcast features tips on working in unscripted film and television that you won't find anywhere else. Get top-industry secrets and even pitch your shows to Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers and Unscripted Television Producers Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina.
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