Evaluation

To help us film and edit our own documentary interview we had an understanding of the codes and conventions that featured in existing products. With this understanding we then tried to apply the conventions to our own interviews.
The strengths of our interview are mainly within the cutaways that we used to break up the interview. These cutaways were all relevant to the topic of the interview as they all featured mobile phones and how they are used. Also the soundtrack that we used for the interview was a good choice as it was an instrumental track so there was no lyrics to distract the viewers attention.
There were many weaknesses in our interview. Firstly the framing of the interview was not correct. The interviewee was positioned to the right of the screen but was also looking to the right. This means that the interviewer was standing on the wrong side of the camera and should be standing on the right of the camera. Also the rule of thirds was not followed correctly and resulted in too much space above the interviewees head. Another weakness is in the cutaways. A few of the cutaways we filmed had jump cuts in them meaning that we had made a mistake in the editing of the film.
Overall we made a lot of mistakes in the filming and editing of our interview. We were also unsuccessful in applying many of the conventions in our own interview. However we will be able to look back and evaluate the improvement from this interview to our final documentary.