Documentary As Task

We watched two documentaries "Teeth of jaws" and "The Simpson's 20th anniversary...on ice". From watching these documentaries I learnt some of the main codes and conventions.

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.