Evaluation For Preliminary Task

My evaluation for my Preliminary task

For my preliminary task Hannah Melissa and i had to make a video documentary about how people use their mobiles phones and information about them. For starters we got our cameras set up and then planned what we was going to film and what cut aways we needed to give more variety to the documentary. Once we had produced our documentary as a group we presented it to the class and got positive feedback and things to improve for the real task.  The class said that our choice of music was good and relevant as our song was called “banana phone”. I was happy with this because as a group we had took a long time on picking the music and im glad that we got it correct and intrigued the class. The class also said that we had good use of cutaways and they were interesting to watch. The last positive thing that the class said about our video was that our interviewee was looking away from the camera just like it says to do in the codes and conventions of documentaries.

Then the class gave us some feedback on some things that we could improve for our real documentary, one of them was to make sure that the background noise isn’t as loud as it was, because ours was too loud to the point where you couldn’t hear our interviewee. This means that next time we are going to have to plan the interview much more carefully and intensely. They also said that we need better mise en scene and a better variety of camera angles, i think that this is fair of them to say because we just kept the camera in the same position throughout the whole interview. Looking back at our documentary now i can see that there are a lot of changes and improvements to makes as we move onto the real documentary.