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.