Evaluation

After uploading our documentary to YouTube we watched it and discussed the good and bad points of it as a group. We came up with a wide variety of downsides and upsides but for our documentary we thought about these as our good points and bad points:


Good

We used creative cutaways that anchored the answer that was given by our interviewee.

We used Good music which was more music than vocals so that mean the singing would not be drowning out the talking of our interviewee. It also had a good crescendo at the end of the documentary to ensure the audience that it was about to finish.


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 but instead looks around the room at the ceiling and sometimes looks into the camera aswell.

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

Overall we will be able to look back at our documentary and make sure that we do not make the same mistakes again and improve on our work so that it will be better in the future.

Editing

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

This is our finished documentary that was uploaded to youtube

Filming

For our Mise-en-Scene we used a computer which is technology related and represents how phones can be evolved to act just like a computer can. We also made sure there was no light coming from behind the interviewee so we had a natural light source coming from behind the camera so the interviewee could be seen. Their was no movements behind the interviewee which would mean that thw viewer would not get distracted from the show and look at what was goping on in the background more than the interviewee.
We filmed the documentary in mid-shot and made sure that the interviewees eyes were a third of the way down which are 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 so that it met the codes and conventions.

Here are the screenshots of our production in adobe premier pro:

Here is the story board we have used to create our documentary