Preliminary Evaluation

After producing our documentary 'Its good to talk', we had people watch our documentary and see what they thought was the strong points and the weak points of the documentary. Whatever criticism that was given we will used to make our real documentary professional and appealing to the audience as possible.

Its good to talk

This is our documentary for our preliminary task on 'Its good to Talk'. The topic of the documentary is mobile phones and we have tried to show that throughout the documentary.

''Its Good to Talk'' Inital plan

This is a plan forour 'Its Good To Talk' documentary, we have had to plan everything from the mise-en-scene to cut aways..
To make the mise-en-scene relevant to mobile phones, we will produce a prop; board images of mobile phones. These images will be placed at the back of interviewees when we are filming. We will do this as the audience will not be distracted and will remain focused on the topic of mobile phones are the images will keep reinforcing it. 

As mobile phones are very popular with the younger generations, we plan to interview a lot of young people aged 16-20. In the interview we plan to ask questions relevant to the topic of mobile phones such as:

When did you get your first mobile phone?

What do you use your phone for?

Could you go a day without your phone?

We plan to ask 10 questions to each interviewee and then we plan to edit the questions out and put each interviewees answers to each question after one another.

In between interviews and at the beginning of our documentary, we plan to have footage of people using mobile phones, this uses contemporary footage of the modern day and also archive footage of when mobile phones were first invented- this will show how mobile phones have escalated in society. This footage will be used as our cutaways.

We also have chosen the track 'Telephone' by Lady GaGa and Beyonce. We have chosen this song as it relates back to the theme of our documentary as the lyrics is referring to a mobile phone with constant texts and calls. 

Preliminary Task

Our task is too product a short documentary on mobile phones. We will do this by conducting interviews which then we will edited into a short film so that only the answers are used- the audience will not hear any of the questions being asked. We will have to create a title for our short film and also lay a music bed under the edited interview.

codes and conventions of interviews

For this I had to go an research the codes and conventions for an interview in a documentary. These are the basic codes and conventions I found. They include things such as the rule of Thirds and also the positioning and mise-en-scene of the interviews

codes and conventions of a documentary

I had to research through the internet and by looking at other documentaries to find the codes and conventions of a documentary. I will aim to follow these codes and conventions in the construction of my documentary to make my media product look as professional as a real media product

Documentary 5- The Mekong river with sue perkins

Documentary 4- Supersize me

For this I watched the documentary 'Super Size Me' and analysed key areas such as camera work, sound etc.

Documentary 2- Terror at the Mall

Documentary 3- Life in Solitary

This is the third documentary that i looked at. I had to look at the different graphics and camera angles etc.

Documentary 1- I married the Waiter

For this documentary I had to watch the full documentary then make notes on Graphics, the type of documentary, themes, camerawork etc. I had to look at 5 documentaries in total and analyse all 5 and see what features they have the same and how they were different.