Evaluation

My task was to create a documentary on mobile phones. Me and my group were given the questions and then went away to film. We filmed in a classroom and we used a camcorder to record. We also recorded a few cutaway shots. We used a camera to take some pictures for cutaway shots. I then went onto the Internet to try and find more pictures that could be used as cutaway shots. We then used photoshop? to edited the footage to put together are video documentary. We edited in transitions shots, and music that goes with the theme of this documentary. We also used effects to get the music to fade in and fade out.

During creating my documentary there was not many things that stood out to be good, however one thing that worked well was the group that we were put in. We all put in are part and were able to work well together. This made us able to answer all the questions. We also followed codes and conventions in the sense that we made sure that are interviewee did not look at the camera during the interview. We made sure that she was looking the person interviewing her. We also made sure that the lighting was good so that did not affect the shot. We made sure again that codes and conventions were followed and we made sure the lighting was in front not behind. We used a few cutaway shots, and used different kinds of cutaway shots. That was relevant to the documentary. Another way in which we followed codes and conventions was we edited the questions out.

There were many things that were not good enough for a documentary, and many things that did not follow code and conventions. Such as we did not use proper framing and did not also use mise en scene. Another code and convention that we did not follow was we stuck to the same transition throughout the whole documentary. We also did not use text to say who were interviewing.

There are many things that must be improved when creating a next documentary. Such as I must try and stick to all of the codes and conventions. The main thing that I feel must be improved is the framing as I did not stick to the rule of thirds, which I will do when next creating a documentary. Another big improvement I feel must be made is the transitions, as I stuck to the same one throughout it all, which made the documentaries look very stupid and also made it feel like you are reading a book.

Over all I feel that for my first ever attempt of creating a documentary I did not too bad. However as you can see there is many different things that I do need to pick up on to improve my next documentary. I feel that next time I will be able to full fill my full potential and create a more improved documentary and have used this experience as a learning curve.