Short Film: School

We we're asked to produce a 1 minute film based on the subject of school.
Here's the final product.

Evaluation

Our groups documentary had both positive and negative results, when discussed with the class. The best things about it overall would have had to have been the cutaway, as i feel they anchored the questions well. Although i feel they could have been much more creative in respect to to context. Although these was a jump cut after the first answer given, it was because we simply didn't have another cut away to put in, so had to compromise. So i will make sure when I do my next documentary, that they will be much more creative.

Moreover, I think that the answers should have been much more detailed and longer, but this can be resolved next time by telling the interviewee to give us more detail or explain a point they're making. Also some of the questions didn't make much sense since the questions where cut out, so that was a main problem.

Many more problems rose with the filming, the main one being filming the mise-en-scene in front of a window, which caused the interviewee to be silhouetted. But with doing the mistake now, it means that We will definitely not make the mistake again. Aside these issues, the framing of the the interview was correct and the eye level was a 3rd of the way down. Although the camera should have been moved slightly at an angle so that the interviewee's eye contact was directed at the interviewer and not the person filming.

Overall I think that most of it went badly, although there's some good point like the cut-aways, and the questions we're good, but just lacked some detail. I will know now in the future what I need to do and what not to do when it comes to filming and editing.

Mobile Phone Interview: Editing

When all the filming was done, we imported all of our material for our documentary into the software Adobe Premium Pro 1.5, as well as the cutaways which then were added separately in between each question. Firstly, though, the questions had to be edited out and unlink the audio form the video.
The cut-aways slightly overlap the the footage of the interview so that the documentary flows more smoothly and so the audio stayed in sync to the video..
A music track was then inserted over the entire documentary,  as a backing track, but also so the interviewer could be heard.
The music being: Voodoo Child- Rogue Trader

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Mobile Phone Interview: Construction and filming

In a group of three we were asked to produce our own documentaries about mobile phones with planning, filming and editing.
The background the group used_______
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 took simple video recordings based on both our story board and the answers given in
The interview so that they could also anchor the meaning for the documentary and in relation to the topic of mobiles.