Evaluation

During the filming of our mobile phone interview/documentary we kept in mind the codes and conventions that featured in the existing products we had previously watched, with this knowledge, we then tried to apply the conventions to our own interview. We have a few strengths in our interview; mainly the cutaways which we used to break up the interview, the cutaways are relevant to the topic f the documentary: mobile phones. Another strength was the backing track we used as it had no lyrics to distract our audience from the main focus of our documentary; the interview.

However, our interview had several weaknesses such as; the interviewee was positioned to the right of the screen but was also looking right this means that the interviewer was on the incorrect side of the camera and should have been standing to the right of the camera. Another weakness was that our interviewee had too much space above her head which means the rule of thirds was not followed correctly, also our cutaways had a few jump cuts which means we had made a mistake in the editing process.

To conclude, we made a lot of mistakes in both our filming and editing of our interview, and many of the conventions were not followed thus making our documentary poor in comparison to existing products. However, we will be able to compare this interview to our final documentary and see a mass improvement.