Mobile phone documentary

evaluationShaun Hughes

Strengths

• The first strength of my documentary is that it follows typical codes and conventions of a TV documentary interview. For example; the interviewee is framed to the off centre when being interviewed, this is conventional.

Strengths

• Another strength of my documentary is that it uses relevant cut aways that link to the topic of the documentary which is mobile phones. As seen here on the right, mobile phones are used in my cut aways.

Strengths

• The final strength of this documentary is that it is in focus all the way through and the camera is steady as I used a tripod. The tripod maintains the steadiness of the camera and reduces the chances of blurry shots.

Weaknesses

• The first weakness of this documentary is that the interviewee doesn’t rephrase the question in their answer. This means that sometimes the answers do not make sense as it is conventional to cut the questions out of an interview.

Weaknesses

• Another weakness is that the documentary doesn’t have a relevant song as a music bed. To be conventional, my documentary should have an instrumental from a pop song as a music bed throughout.

Weaknesses

• Another weakness is that the documentary is that it doesn’t have at title, it begins with the interviewee answering a question.

Weaknesses

• Also, we did not finish editing our documentary and so it is disjointed and can be quite confusing to watch, this is a major flaw.

Weaknesses

• A final weakness is that we did not superimpose anything at all, this is another weakness. Superimposing should be used to anchor the interviewee to the topic. The superimposing should be at the bottom right of the screen.