Mobile Phone Interview - Evaluation

I believe that on a whole, our documentary about mobile phones went reasonably well. We were able to frame the shot of the interviewee as it should have been - with the interviewee to one side of the screen in a medium close up, and never making eye contact with the camera. Moreover, our interviewee, Joe, was positioned so that his eye line was one third of the way down the screen. Also, Joe used a clear voice and by using an instrumental piece of music the audience do not get confused when Joe is speaking although in parts of our documentary, the music was a bit too loud so the audience had difficulty hearing, however this could be adjusted in editing.

We should have thought more carefully about our mise-en-scene as it was irrelevant and had nothing to do with the interview or any of the answers. Although there were some problems with the timing and relevance of the cut-aways, most were filmed well and were mainly relevant to the answers of the interview.

Some of the answers to the question were brief, this problem could be over come in the future by promoting the interviewee to give more details. What's more, on occasion the audience may be confused as to what the interviewee is saying as the questions were edited out. This means that the answers should incorporate the questions and even repeat them in the answers.

Finally, I believe that as a whole our group worked well to produce a documentary on mobile phones and as a first attempt it turned out well.

Mobile Phone Interview - Editing

Editing

After we finished filming all of the material for our documentary we uploaded the footage onto a computer and, using the software Adobe premium pro 1.5, we began editing the footage. We began by editing out the questions asked by the interviewer. Doing this meant that the questions had to be asked in such a way that the answers would let the audience know what the questions where. Next we, inserted the cut-aways and unlinked the audio. The cut-aways slightly overlap the the footage of the interview so that the documentary flows more smoothly. As a group we decided on the instrumental 'I'm yours' by Jason Mraz. We lowered the sound so that it could be background music to the documentary. Finally, after creating a youtube account, we uploaded our video and inserted the embedded code into our blogs:

Finished Production:

Tools used:

• Video Camera & tripod
  
• Computer
• lead
• Adobe premium pro 1.5:
• Youtube

Screen Grabs:

Mobile Phone Interview - Construction and filming

Mobile Phone Interview

As a group of three we were assigned the task of planning, filming and editing our own documentaries about mobile phones.

We were given certain questions which had to be asked during the interview which we used to plan what cut-away's we were going to use. We then made a story board that documented what each cut-away would contain and how long each clip was going to last.

We chose to film our interview in the ice radio recording studio as the mise-en-scene of technology linked to the topic of the documentary. Moreover, the ice radio recording studio did not contain any large window's meaning that filming with a back light would not be a problem.

All of the cut-aways were filmed around school in places such as the common room and break out areas.