When you are ready to shoot your video, follow these simple steps.
When you are ready to shoot your video, follow these simple steps.
Capture on video, as succinctly as possible, answers to the following 15 questions.
Click here to download a WORD DOC or PDF of these questions.
Questions to ask your Subject:
1. “Please introduce yourself”
- First name (no last names necessary)
- Job and or specialty
- Years employed at job
- State and/or city where you work
2. “In terms that I [or anyone] can understand can you tell me what YOU actually do?”
3. “So, what is a typical day really like for you?”
From morning to end of day what activities and percent of time does the person spend on them. This can be boring so please try to spice it up with “little known facts” or “revealing” insights?
4. “What are the coolest most interesting things you do?”
In other words, what do you love about your job?
5. “What are the dullest and least appealing things you do during your job?”
6. “So why did you become a YOUR JOB?”
7. “What’s been the most unexpected part of the job?”
8. “What kind of personality makes the best YOUR JOB and why?”
9. “What has been the most rewarding thing you have done in this job?”
10. “What has been the most difficult or disappointing experience in your job?”
11. “What have you learned about yourself and others through this job?”
12. “What compromises and tradeoffs have you made to be successful?”
13. “If you knew then what you know now what would you do differently starting out?”
14. “What insider information could you offer someone interested in breaking into your field?”
15. One minute overview. “Can you please summarize everything we talked into one minute?”
Reminders: Simple steps for better and more useful videos.
- Zoom into your interview subject so their mid-chest is at the bottom of frame and the top of their head just below the top of the frame.
- Adequately light the subject (not back or side-lit).
- Use a microphone that does not pick up extraneous sounds (traffic, coworkers’ voices, air-conditioners, machinery, etc.). The built in camera mike is usually only good with no other sounds around.
- Keep only the subject’s answers - Do not include in the interviewer’s questions
- Prompt the interview subject with further comments or questions during an interview (i.e. “How so?”, “What do mean by that?”, “Can you give me an example?”) . Do not record the interviewer asking for additional information.
- Position the camera just to the left or right of the interviewer at eye level.
Ask the subject to look at the interviewer not the camera.
Video Requirements:
- View the sample video clip provided to the right.
- Videos MUST be uploaded in a compressed .MOV format (Cinepak or other compression codec is fine to reduce file size).
- Each answer MUST be its OWN CLIP. (Do not answer two or more questions in a single video clip.)
- Each clip can be no longer than 3 minutes. Stay on point.
- Each clip can be no more than 60MB in file size (700kbps bit rate).
- Each clip should be set to play at 30 frames per second (fps)
- Do not include opening or closing credits, logos, watermarks, or graphics of any kind. See example to the right.
- If you choose to use music, use only royalty free music or music of your own creation. Any video submitted using copyrighted music will be disqualified. We recommend using music only in the intro few second or down low so it does not compete with the interview subject.
Here are a few site where you can get or buy (cheap) royalty free music:
http://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ (Free)
http://www.stockmusic.net (nominal charge)
http://www.neosounds.com/ (nominal charge)
http://www.shockwave-sound.com/index.html (nominal charge)
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