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The overall feedback we got was that they liked the fact we got in touch with the right kind of people "seek ed medical advice from a credited NHS nurse" "manager of a coffee shop". The documentary was "quite easy to watch" because of the narrative structure and the voice over "sounded like he was excited about talking about coffee" and that he also sounded like he himself had drank plenty of coffee!. From our audience feedback it was obvious that the overall sound quality wasn't too good and that this area could have been improved. I was fed back that when using the blue screen the tape had a blip so to watch it was a bit distracting to concentrate on the content. The title montage of the girl making a cup of coffee, this footage appears to be a bit shaky and made the whole sequence low in quality, this could have been overcome by making sure the tripod was fully secure before starting to film. Some of the constructive criticism was that in the nurse's interview and the coffee worker the framing wasn't the best it could have been and the mis en scene wasn't entirely relevant.
I further posted my documentary on facebook to gain some more feedback. Below is a picture of the comments I received.
The majority of people said that it looked very professional. A few people said we actually taught and informed them of something they did not know before, which is a role that documentaries should fulfill. The feedback included the fact that the sound was too quite, again this is something that we could improve and make better. One of the people commented on the use of voice over script and said that he asked a rhetorical question which he was actually wondering at the time. On a whole I have learnt that we should have sorted out the sound quality and quality of blue screen footage.
Here are a few graphs conducted from the rating questions and what I learnt from these;
We then proceeded to film an interview about mobile phones for a documentary.
Planning
First we had to figure out the general aim of the interview. Which we decided on how teenagers rely heavily on their mobile phones. We planned out 10 questions for the interview and where it would take place. We did not plan where to do the cutaways as it is hard to make the cutaways relevant before if you film them before the actual interview.
Filming
We were issued with the equipment we needed and then went to film the interview outside. We decided to change the initial location to inside in front of the blue screen due to the weather conditions. We had to make sure that when the interviewee was answering the questions that he answered in full sentences so when the questions are edited out the answer still makes sense. We then filmed a few relevant cutaways of people texting, playing games and generally using their phones.
Editing
When editing we dealt with the questions by editing them out and leaving the answers using simple cuts. We used fades on the audio to avoid jumps and used a few cutaways over some of the jumps. We hadn't filmed enough cutaways so in the end we used some still images from the Internet.
Evaluation
If we were to do this task again we would have to think more carefully about the appropriate location of filming and filmed more relevant cutaways. We could use a background which contains mis en scene related to mobile phones instead of leaving the blue screen in.