Media prelim evaluation

In our documentary entitled The generation of communication we covered the topic of

the current day generations relationship with their mobile phones and how theyve become
reliant on them. Our group interviewed students inside the college asking them multiple
questions about their mobile phones. These questions ranged from simple questions such as
Tell me about your current mobile phone to personal questions such as How many text
messages you send a day we received mostly relevant and appropriate answers from the
students we interviewed. For the final documentary I think the group should carefully pick a
more diverse group for questioning to get a range of different and appropriate responses as
some responses we got were inappropriate and could not use for the final cut.
The mise-en-scene we used throughout the documentary included both mobile phones and
other items and places commonly associated with mobile phones. The use of a range of
mobile phones were essential as we could represent that different types of people have
different mobile phones, sometimes Iphones were too common and outnumber other
phones on the documentary so if I was to film again I would film a wider variety. We filmed
interviewees in front of a container representing the urban environment in which we were
filming so the audience gets the idea of the demographic we were filming. If filming again
we would film in a range of environments which werent urban therefore get a wider ranger
of opinions and answers. When filming we used high key lighting (due to being outside) and
the camera holding was shaky which made some of the interviews look over-saturated and
aesthetically unpleasing. Given the chance to film again I would keep the camera steadily on
the tripod and film in an indoor location to prevent the saturation and make the picture
quality significantly better.
When editing the interviews we used straight cuts for every cut representing pace and
speed in the development and changing of technology and mobile phones in particular, next
time in the full finished documentary I will want to use more types of cut to show a range of
different editing techniques in which suit the genre of documentary. The graphics in which
we used for both the title and graphics of interviewees names was a silver font with silver
being a colour being associated with technology. The font was generic and used for both the
title and names and next time I would use two different fonts and use fonts which are genre
appropriate and stand out catching the audiences attention.
The cutaways we used included students using their mobile phones whilst sat down
socialising with peers, students walking around conversing on their mobile phones and sat
texting their friends. The cutaways were relevant but sometimes looked unprofessional as
students laughed whilst being filmed and looked at the camera. Next time i would get better
quality cutaways and more of them as when editing we realised we lacked enough cutaways
for the amounts of interviews we held.