The only difference with shooting HD that relates to an interviewee is in the additional detail the camera records and the general assumption that the image willl be watched on a bigger TV set.

Although a good cameraman director will not do as many big closeups the additional detail of the subject is still evident when compared to standard definition.

If the interviewee is being shot in their home they should be aware that background books and pictures may be visible in enough detail to make out a title or identify a person.

In respect to the interviewee themselves one must be careful not to get them too worried about the HD camera!

Having said that I did HD interviews with a good budget recently, we had a recce, makeup artist and lots of time to light.

In two days we did two locations and two interviews and still worked overtime. Fussing about every detail.

If you really want to create an interview that is classy then I am beginning to think that a makeup artist with hair dressing skills is important!

Out of control hair is a big issue and something that will always be identified on a small monitor, but should be seen by the cameraman. I mean a single strand of hair!

Hair growing out of ears is especially a problem. But what do you do? Trim it? Go wider?

Crew need to be diligent to catch hair issues as they arise.

Makeup should be muted and foundation should be very carefully applied so as not to show its texture or best left to makeup artist. No glossy lipstick if they are meant to be natural. Over all their should be less makeup than SD.

Freshly laundered or dry cleaned clothes is a big help. Fine detail in clothing is not quite as much a problem on HD as SD, but very fine detail is a problem on HD, it is hard to define what is fine and what is very fine of course as it is dependant on shot size.

Avoid dark velvet blacks and very white lumenescent white and colours but charcoal and normal dull whites are ok as long as they are not worn by subjects with skin colour of opposite tones to clothes.

We have yet to define how "earthy" a real person can appear on HD so have reverted to preparing the subject to look natural by eliminating "distractions".

Not so sure about the integrity of this for documentry work!