Evaluation

At first i was excited to be filming a small section of a documentary although i was quite worried it was going to be difficult but one we got started i was excited. we were put into out groups and planned out our interview and cutaways, we were given a sheet with the questions we had to ask our interviewee, the list of questions were also there to help us decide what cutaways we were going to use. one of out cutaways was a row of phones where we would film over them, this was also the time we spent deciding on what background we were going to use for out interview. we came up with lots of different ideas but settled on having a board of lots of different phones.

Filming the cut aways went well because we were focused. The subject we worked on was easy because a lot of people own mobile phones it was easy to get hold of people who would allow us to use there mobile and even themselves in the interview e.g one of our cut aways is of a girl texting. Although some of the problems where that the light wasn't good to do the shot or people would be walking past as you may see in one of our cutaways in which someone is texting. We came up with many cutaways but did not need to use all of them, for example we made one in which a phone had been broken apart and someone was upset about it.

Filming the interview was quite difficult because we were struggling to get the right light, the right mise-en-scene, the camera in the right position and the interviewee to be looking in the right way however once they were all sorted the rest of the filming ran smoothly. We used a PowerPoint in the background on a projection screen showing a collage of different images of mobile phones, the only problem with this was that it made the interview a bit darker because we couldn't turn on the lights, when we first started the interviewee was looking the wrong way but we sorted this out and it was much easyer, we made sure the interviewee knew what the questions were and that she said the question in her answer for example; Do you use text language? and she replied 'I don't really use text language...' allowing the viewer to understand what questions just been asked.

i didn't enjoy the editing as much as filming this is because i had never used the software before this.however it allowed us as a group to learn and make decisions. Nicole got to grasp with the editing software the quickest. I especially liked cutting things out of the interview and seeing the interview come together as one.

in conclusion, The audience feedback proved to be very useful in order for me to realise what i should do when doing the real task. We got told our interview had very good mise-en-scene, and the music was slightly relevant to the interview because it was happy. The audience feedback also told us that it was very smooth editing and the quality of the interview was good but we did also need to work on were we put our cutaways, because some of them where not relevant to the question that had been asked. The audience also said that some of the cutaways were not framed well so I will work on this for my real production, when editing and putting a music bed over the interview we thought it was the right sound level but when it was played for the audience it was louder than we had thought.

Overall I think the task went well and has allowed me to gain confidence on producing a documentary for my main task.