Evaluation

When we were first asked to the task I was quite hesitant at the idea at first because I thought it was going to be really difficult but then once it had been explained what we had to do I became quite intrigued as it would be a good task. Once we had been put into our groups we planned out what we were going to and what our interview was going to be like, we had a sheet of questions given to us and from that we planned our cutaways for example we planned we would have people using there phones and planned we would film a line of different films, we also decided what the mise-en-scene behind our interviewer would be like so we came up with ideas of pictures behind them of mobile phones, posters or a computer screen with a background of a mobile phone and we went with the screen of a collage of pictures. Our planning was effective.

Filming the cut aways went well because we were focused on what we had to do, because a lot of people own mobile phones it was easy to get hold of people who would allow us to use there mobile and even themselves in the interview e.g one of our cut aways is of a girl texting. Although some of the problems where that the light wasn't good to do the shot or people would be walking past as you may see in one of our cutaways in which someone is texting. We came up with many cutaways but did not need to use all of them, for example we made one in which a phone had been broken apart and someone was upset about it.

Filming the interview was quite difficult in order to get the right light, the right mise-en-scene, the camera in the right position and the interviewee to be looking in the right way. We used a projection screen with a PowerPoint in the background showing a collage of different images of mobile phones, the only problem with this was that it made the interview a bit darker, when we first started the interviewee was looking the wrong way so luckily we sorted this out and it became easier, we made sure the interviewee knew what the questions were and that she said the question in her answer for example; Do you use text language? and she replied 'I don't really use text language...' allowing the viewer to understand what questions just been asked.

The editing for me was also a very enjoyable part of the task as it allowed us as a group to learn and make decisions. Nicole got to grasp with the editing software the quickest and as I was absent from the first lesson she told me how to use the software. I especially liked cutting things out of the interview and seeing the interview come together as one, making sure we chose the precise part in which the interviewee had answered the questions best, then thinking of the specific places for the cutaways, we also added effects to fade it at the end.

To conclude, The audience feedback proved to be very useful in order for me to realise what i should do when doing the real task. We got told our interview had very good mise-en-scene, and the music was slightly relevant to the interview because it was happy. The audience feedback also told us that it was very smooth editing and the quality of the interview was good but we did also need to work on were we put our cutaways, because some of them where not relevant to the question that had been asked. The audience also said that some of the cutaways were not framed well so I will work on this for my real production, when editing and putting a music bed over the interview we thought it was the right sound level but when it was played for the audience it was louder than we had thought.

Overall I think the task went well and has made me more confident towards the main task.

The mobile Phone interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-k8bTAGnQ8

Editing skills used and developed and screengrabs

In the Editing process I used skills that I have already used from my previous years doing media in school in order to help me although as I have not used the software for many years I needed some extra help from the others in my group. I used my old skills like importing and exporting filmed footage and also laying music onto the interview.

In the editing process I have learnt how to cut and shrink parts of the footage to make the interview run smoothly for example cutting just the answers form the interviewee out and also cutting the main parts of cutaways, also making sure I can effectively place the parts of footage in the correct places. I can also make sure any unwanted footage is in the interview carefully watching a selecting specific parts. I was also able to separate the audio from filmed footage for example when the cutaways are added we need there to be no sound in order for the audience to hear the interviewee, therefore getting rid of the audio. some of the new skills I learnt where the set in and set out point tool allowing me to select a specific area of film.

Plan of cutaways and mise-en-scene

We came up with many idea's for our cutaways .

1. Laying different phones out straight on a table and moving the camera over them.
2. Borrow different phones and put them all together in a pile and zoom in towards them.
3. Film people who are already on the phones e.g texting.
4. Film someones phone ringing.
5. film someone answering a phone with a cord e.g an office phone.
6. To show different types of text language film someone texting normally and then someone texting in text language.
7. Film two people laughing whilst they are on there phone.

Mise-en-scene

for our mise-en-scene we will put different pictures of mobile phones on a slide from powerpoint and put it on the projector which will show up on the board and then our interviwee will sit infront of it.

Codes and Conventions of Filming and Editing Interviews.

• In interviews we have seen usually a medium shot, medium close-up, close ups of the interviewees for example in Jaws when the producer is being interviewed there is a medium shot showing his shoulders and above.

• Interviews of the interviewee are framed towards either the left or the right and use a variety of both left and right throughout the interview this also allows the viewer to watch the interviewee and the mise-en-scene behind them e.g Matt Groening is sitting towards the left with characters from the Simpsons on the right behind him.

• The framing follows the rule of thirds eyeline and it is roughly a third of the way down.

• The mise-en-scene in the interview must be relevant to what the interview is about or it would not make sense e.g Jaws interview show pictures of the sea and sharks and in the simpsons interview there are pictures of the simpsons.

• In order for it to be clear to see the interviewee you must never film with a light source behind the interviewee.

• Always brief your interviewee on the questions before the interview so you can not hear you asking them making the interview flow better.

• An interview must include cutaways in order to make it more interesting to watch for the viewer eg. in Jaws there are cut aways that show the sea, still of the novel and stills of footage from the film.

• There must always be graphics in an interview in order to know who the person being interviewed is, all the graphics have to be the same in font, colour and size and they also have to be the same length e.g in jaws the graphics where blue with red writing the font was the same size and they appeared for the same amount of time.