Documenting The Doing #22: Noddy Shot

We only had a morning to complete this production from beginning to end. 3 hours to plan, film and edit this so we could have it uploaded to our Vimeo accounts by 12.30pm. I worked with my colleagues Naomi Doddridge and Sam Shaw during this. It was a challenge, but thankfully it was a simplistic production which we were only completing to understand the concept of it. This was the Noddy Shot. This shot is used during interviews to break up the camera positioning, which makes the whole interview segment more interesting to watch, rather than having the camera on the interviewee for the whole thing.

During a Noddy Shot, the sound of the interviewee will continue to overrun the shot of the interviewer nodding, to make it seem more natural and to break up the camera shots.

Left: me nodding - Right: Sam answering

We had to ask a simple question to ensure that we focused more on the camera work as this was the real reasoning behind this short production. Some projects we complete are to understand the concept of camera angles, others is editing. This was a bit of both. Only three shots were required for this whole production. I completely understood it and realised how much the Noddy Shot impacted on interviews. You don't realise it until you watch an interview, then you end up looking for it!

OUR FINAL PRODUCTION: Noddy Shot

I'm really pleased with how this production finished. To give the video more depth, length and professionalism, I added the BBC introduction to the news theme credits. I really have understood the concept of the Noddy Shot and I will bare it in mind the next time I complete interviews for different productions. 

Cheerio. :o)

- Olivia.