Mobile Phone Documentary Evaluation

For this project, we had to create a documentary about mobile phones by interviewing different people to see what they thought about mobile phones.We had to include use of A-Roll and B-Roll and frame our interviewees in the camera to make our documentary more interesting.

Throughout the documentary, we used A-Roll as the interviews with the blue screen behind 2 out of three of them. We also used B-Roll as extra pieces of video to include when editing the video. These were videos of people using their mobiles in different ways such as talking to someone on it, texting and also using apps such as Twitter. When conducting the interviews, we placed the person to the left or the right of the camera shot like the rule of thirds while looking to the side of the camera at the interviewer which is a basic convention of interviews in documentaries. This made the overall shot look better as the person wasn't in the middle looking directly at the camera.

As we had two interviewees in front of the blue screen, when we were edting, we learnt how to add an image/video in the background of something relevent to the documentary which were different mobile phones and also the front of a mobile phone shop. Also while we were editing, we learnt how to cut different parts of the interview out to only include specific parts we wanted such as cutting out the questions and adding in text before the person speaks. I think that this made it look more professional as the sound quality wouldn't had been as good because the interviewer didn't have a microphone.

In the background of the whole documentary, we included a song relevent to the documentary which was Beyonce - Video Phone. We thought that this sounded good as the documentary was being played and also made it sound less boring as it did before we added it. The sound throughout the documentary was the answers to the questions being asked that had good quality sound and are clear for the audience to hear.

Overall, I think the way we have edited the A-Roll with the B-Roll with the sound/music brings everything together and makes it flow smoothly. I also think that this makes it more interesting.