Interviewmania!, Chris Hennessy (1997, Custom Video Connection, 2059 Camden Avenue, Ste. 261, San Jose, CA 95124, 98-min. video with 26-pp. handbook, $50)
Personal interviews can add a special touch to a wedding video, but conducting effective interviews is a skill that most videographers have not developed. That’s why wedding videographer Chris Hennessy has published this combination videotape and handbook. Interviewmania! is loaded with sample interviews and tips to help you ask the right questions in the right manner, to help your videos stand out from the rest. The Interviewing for Impact handbook includes questions to ask the bride and groom, the wedding party, parents, grandparents, even celebrities who may be in attendance. Hennessy shares more than 150 tips and questions he has learned and refined in his years as a producer. This is not a tape on how to shoot wedding videos; this is a guide for conducting interviews. Don’t buy this tape to learn camera techniques; there aren’t any. But if you’d like to learn the skills you’ll need to be a better interviewer, Interviewmania! can help.
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