Cutting techniques for interview with no other clips?

[jonas18z]

Anyone have tips for cutting techniques of a interview with one person and no other clips for cover every cuts.

How do you do in this situations?

 

[sonofaresiii]

One of the rare situations crossing the line can be effective, partly because there's no chance of confusion.

 

[eiker_ir]

if there was no other camera at all to cut to and depending of the final output i may crop the image into a tighter shot to simulate a second camera.

I usually only do this if the final output will be in SD and i'm working with 1080p/1080i video since there's no quality loss. I do it on full HD projects only as a last measure and by cropping less so the quality jump is not too noticeable, but i usually try to avoid this option.

 

[Pickthorne]

I sometimes use a quick 10 frame dip to white transition between thoughts, answers, sections etc. Rarely does the whole interview appear in it's entirety; there is always room to tighten up. You're doing the interviewed a favour. A lower 3rd with the question asked for the first moments of the answer is also nice.

 

[robmneilson]

Cross the line and throw in a tight profile CU. Worked for me all the time when I was squeezed into a corner shooting interviews for a music website.

 

[clang]

Can you cut away to brief shots of something that illustrates what the interview's about? That will also help avoid 'boring talking head' syndrome