Task Two

Interview Prep
Task

- Working in groups, your task is to conduct an interview about the subject of mobile phones.

- Your interview will then be edited into a short film so that only the answers are used, the audience will not hear any of the questions being used.

- In order to avoid jump cuts you will therefore need to film cutaway shots which can be used in the editing process.

- You will need to think of a title for your short film.

- You will also lay a music bed under the edited interview.

Title: My mobile and me.

Mise- en- scene option 1: A picture of the iphone wallpaper backgroud, on a projector with somebody sitting infront of it.














Music Bed: Telephone- Lady GAGA + Beyonce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQOmZ3UhEXc.

Questions for the interview.

1. Tell me what life was like before you had the mobile phone?

2. When did you get yoiur first mobile phone?

3. Tell me about all the mobile phones you have had.

4. Tell me about your current mobile phone.

5. Why did you choose this mobile phone?

6. Tell me about the ringtone you have on your phone and why you
chose it.

7. What do you use your mobile for?

8. How much does your mobile cost a month?

9. How often do you send text messages?

10. What text 'language' do you use and how did you learn it?

11. What is the best thing about having a mobile phone?

12. What is the worst thing about having a mobile phone?

13. How important is your mobile phone to you?

14. How would you cope without your mobile phone?

Codes and conventions of a documentory

Codes and Conventions.
In class we viewed two clips from documentories and they were, The simpsons and Jaws. The links from these are:
The simpsons: The simpsons 20th aniversary special in 3d on ice part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orLGl7c5oHc
Jaws: In the teeth of Jaws- Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Zj8R0kumw

From this we found some codes and conventions. They are:

- The interviewee must always be filmed in a medium shot, medium close up or a close up.

- The eyeline is roughly a third of the way down from the framing. This is known as following the thirds.

- The interviewee must be framed to the left or the right of the screen. If on a occasion that there is more than one interview than the positioning of the person will change to create variety.

- The positioning of the interviwer is important as it determins where the interviewee is positioned. If the interviewer is positioned on the left than the interviewee is positioned on the right, and if the interviewer is postitioned of the right then the interviewee is postitioned on the left.

- There must never be light behind where the interviewee as the sun could create blindness to the camera and therefore you would not be able to see the interveiw properly.

- The mise- en- scene is important as it would rienforce what the person is speaking about therefore, if you forgot or got confussed than you would always know what was being spoken about.

- The questions that the interviewer is asking are edited out of the clips.

- Cutaways are edited into the interview to go onto the documentory for various reasons.
- they would break up interviews and illustrate what the talking may be about.
- It would avoid jump cuts when the questions would be edited out.

- cutaways are archive material becuase.
- Suggested by something, said in the interview and therefore filmed after the interview.
- Sometimes aspects of the interviewee are filmed with another camera, these could be used for cutaways and many differant shot types.

- Graphics are used to anchor/ connotate who the person on the screen is and there relevance to what the topic is in relation to the documentory being filmed.