Prelim Evaluation

What we did

We were put into small groups and were briefed on what we had to do. We were to film a documentary to do with mobile phones, it was to be around 2 minutes. We then had a sheet of questions in which we used to ask our interviewees. After filming our interviews and our cutaways we were told to edit our film on Adobe Premier and add a soundtrack and eventually come up with a final completed documentary.

Consider how we did it

We used our standard camera which we were issued and used a tripod to keep it steady. We used it to film our interviews and enforced the rule of thrids to make the documentary very professional. We then filmed our cutaways in which we could use to breeak up our interviews. We then picked our soundtrack and downloaded it on the the computer and put it alongside out completed filmed documentary.

What went well and what didnt?

Our filming went very well, we managed to make it professional and employed the rules in which we had to use in order to achieve this. We managed to film a couple of cutaways which i feel went well, they were easy to merge into our questions so that it seemed as the filmed flowed. Aswell as this i think that the people we interviewed were of a mixed age which showed a different view on mobile phones. I feel that alothough these went well I think that we could of filmed more cutaways but we had little time to do so. I think we could of used a few different questions in order to make the documentary different and more sophisticated.

What would we do differently?

I think this time we would make a plan based around what cut aways we would us and how many. I think on our prelim, we didnt have enough cut aways. We could of used more to break up the questions a bit more professionally. A plan would also of helped us out with out questions, we could bit a bit more time into that area.