Unit 5: Production Paperwork- Practice interviews and filming

Test Interviews with Jack, Jose and Maryam and SWOT evaluation

Evaluation

This video is made as a practice to develop our skills in editing/interview and filming techniques/sound.

I am going to evaluate this video by talking about:
- Framing
- Lighting
- Sound
- Cross Cutting
- An appropriate shot type
- Mise en scene

Strengths -       The shot type is a mid shot which is appropriate for the interview. -       The lighting is good as we can see the interviewer and interviewee but it would be better if the lighting was brighter. -       The sound is good as there is no one in the room except for the interviewer’s and interviewee’s voices are being heard.

Weaknesses -The interviewer is reading from a script which looks very informal and inappropriate as the interviewer repeatedly has got her head down and there is lack of the use of communication skills. Meaning, there is no proper eye contact to see that they are both talking to each other. - The mise en scenes appear to be very untidy with too much clutter and unprofessional behind both the interviewer and interviewee. - The cross cutting isn’t exactly properly done as it suppose to be. - It would have been good if we had a few close ups of the interviewer and the interviewee talking during the conversation that they had. - The framing isn’t really good as the shot of the interviewer seems to be in the middle rather than on the left hand side right in front of the interviewee where he is sitting right on the left side to represent the cross cutting. Also, the framing isn’t straight and on a right angle framed image.

Opportunities The mistakes gave us the opportunity to realize what we have done wrong and how we could have improved. This gave us the chance to experiment on certain techniques or our technical skills to strengthen it for the real documentary. Now we know that planning and acknowledgement is the key to a perfect interview or Vox Pops. Key elements must be thought about before pressing the record button. Perfection is required over time.

Threats The threats were that we couldn’t completely move everything from where we were sitting during the interview for the mise en scence because it was beyond our control. The lighting as well as we was sitting right above the lighting but due to the day light perhaps we appear less bright.