Evaluation

After uploading our documentary to YouTube we watched it and discussed the good and bad points of it as a group.

Good

Creative cutaways

Good music with minimal words and a good build up at the end

Bad

The framing of the interview is not right as the focus is of the computer in the middle of the screen and not the interviewee. Also their is too much head space and the camera is too far right meaning that some of the interviewee is cut out of frame

The interviewee does not look at the interviewer

Some answers are to brief and you can’t understand them without the questions

Editing

To start editing we imported the footage into Adobe Premiere Pro we then edited all of the questions out of the interview by using the razor tool as this was typical based on the codes and conventions. We then edited our cutaways and added them into the appropriate places. We added the cutaways in-between answers to avoid jump cuts and to illustrate the answers. After we had finished our video we picked a song as a backing track and also added a title screen and then uploaded to YouTube.

Here are some screenshots that show this

Here is our finished documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCOdMZa8PE

Filming

For the mise-en-scene of the interview we decided to use computers into the background as it is technology related and it shows how phones have now evolved and just how much they can do. We filmed the documentary in mid-shot and made sure that the interviewees eyes were a third down both based on the codes and conventions we had established. For the cutaways 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. We then edited the footage.

Here are the shots of the storyboard