-When somebody talks, the following person usually expands on what the previous person said, or atleast says something related.
-Always have the interviewee on one side of the camera, abiding to the rules of thirds.
-The speaker looks at the interviewer, not the camera.
-The interviewees usually have different backgrounds behind them.
-Mise en Scene. The background must be relevant to the subject.
-The interviewer is rarely seen or heard.
-Usually only one interviewee on the screen at one time.
-The first time a person speaks, their name comes up at the bottom.
-Cutaway images illustrate the spoken points such as the image of the shark in 'Jaws' (below)
Cutaway Shots
After being given our brief and planning what kind of impression we wanted to give the audience, based on mobile phones. We decided to convey the typical documentary conventions, by adding cutaway shots relevant to the topic being dicussed.
We came up with the ideas of:
-Someone talking on the phone
-Someone playing with the applications on the iPhone
-A pile of phones, old and new
-A crab shot of various phones lined up next to eachother
-Many other still shots that we thought would work
Documentary
For our documentary we interviewed matthew stringer and asked him alot of varied questions. We used the blue screen, so had to ensure that Matthew was not wearing blue, otherwise when we came to put a different background on instead of the blue screen, matthew's body would still be visable and if he did wear blue, the colour chrome key would have got rid of all the blue in his body, therefore it would not have look realistic and half of his body would have been missing.
The postioning of the lights had to be very precise also. This was to ensure that his face was illuminated and his expressions could be seen, but also we didn't want to cast any shadows on the blue screen behind him because it would have caused preoblems when we came to changing the background. we positioned the lights on T-bars on either side of the screen like so;
We then took the Cutaway Shots, we had previously planned.
When it came to editing, we had a lot of footage that had to be cut down to around two minutes. Using 'Adobe Premiere Pro' we managed to do this, although it took alot of time and effort.
Firstly we did all the capturing. We needed to decide which bits of the interview were essential to include. What questions we thought were important and what answers we thought were detailed but not too complicated for the audience to understand.
Once we had our mini clips/shots we began to place them in order on the 'video 1' line. We thought as long as we have our shots in the order we wish, the cutaways can work around them.
We then began to decide what cutaways we thought added something to the documentary and the ones that didn't were not used. We had to also think of the positioning of the cutaways and whether it was relevant to the question being answered by the interviewer before it.
We then went on to change the blue background. We achieved this by using colour chroming:
We would select the chroma key option, then we would use the eye dropper icon
and picked select the blue background. then we took it all away by using raising the similarity of the colours as so;
Once we had done that to every clip i inserted my chosen background into the 'video 2' line.
The background we chose was;
Once all the video line's were made up, the end result looked like this;
Once everything one the video line was sorted, we went on to do the audio.
The ambient diegetic sound of the room where we had used the blue screen could not be taken out or lowered because then matthew's voice would have had to be lowered also, thuis would have made it hard to hear him.
The sound track we used fitted well with the whole mobile idea because it was kind of techno, which fitted with the whole idea of technology. At the end of the documentary we had it fade out.
we started inserting titles. This was used to not only give the audience information but we thought the ones at the beginning would draw the audience in and make them concentrate on what was happening.
Overall i thought that the documentary was very personal to Matthew and gave his history of mobile phones, i think however it could have been more informative, so the audience could acknowledge the pros and cons of mobile phones, rather than what one person likes or doesn't. However, for an interview, it worked well.
Stills of Filming
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