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CONVENTIONS OF FILMING AND EDITING INTERVIEWS
In Documentaries there a remany ccodes and coventions that makes a documentary suite the theme of the subject of the Documentary as well as looking professional. There are two documentary videos below with conventions that I have seen in the videos that to me makes it look like a documentary.
In The Teeth of Jaws
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Firts of all i noticed the setting of the interviews, they had mise en scene that related to the movie Jaws. They used:
. Ocean background
. Cut out of a shark as a background
. Posters of the movie Jaws in background
The documentary didnt have any random people talking about Jaws, they had the people who were involved in making the film. E.g. Director, Producer, Author, Actors, Screenwriters etc.
Graphics also used with the theme of Jaws, attacking the screen, plus used as the pop up of the interviewee's name and Job Occupation.
Throughout the documentary there will be cutaways to either the sea, scripts and scenes from the movie to emphasize and give more meaning to what is being said by the interviewee.
Cutaways of actual footage of using the electrical shark to show more depth of what the problems they had to overcome while making the movie.
Cutaways of them making the movie to show what it was like on the set of the movie
Music of Jaws is in the atmosphere that the interviewees explain about Jaws, so the theme tune of Jaws will be playing, then when its calm there will be calm sounds.
The Simpsons 20th anniversary in 3D on Ice
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First of all The Simpsons documentary started with its theme tune, however to make it look more like a documetary they have cuts of the theme song being played by other people with all types of instruments, so cutting to the theme scene to people playing the song with different instruments. Added with people making some comments on The Simpsons. The mise en scene of the interveiwing setting is again in tune with the documentary of The Simpsons. Thats because you can see Simpson cutouts behind the interviewee's or you will see them in offices but they will be realted to the Simpsons in some way. Example 'Kent Brockman' in Simpsons used in an interview comparing him to news reporter. The interviewee is in NBC studios answering the questions.We have the interviews were interviewees are saying how The Simpsons changed the way animated cartoons are today and how it has impacted the global audience. E.g. Seth McFlarrenInterviews with the creator himself Matt Groening to ask what he makes of the Simpsons.Then we have interviews with the Actors with their character cutouts behind them to emphasize who they play in the Simpsons, so it makes itself clear to the audience who they are.E.g. Marge Simpson played by Julie Kavner (cutout of Marge Simpson behind Julie in interview)A narrator who is explaining what is going on throughout the documentaryAlso there are cutaways to actual Simpson episodes to give more meaning to whats been said with some humerous reasons as well to add more entertainment to the documentarty, which also helps make more sense of what the narrator is explaining so the viewers can understand whats going on.Showing footage of the global success of The Simpsons, The presenter going around to different countries to talk how the Simpsons has impact their country. Sometimes in a good way or in a bad way. So if the presenter went around to different countries to make this documentary, it would have taken months to complete the documentary.Raw footage of simpson merchandise to show success with still pictures that have the narrator explaining about them.Since there is a presenter talking and looking at the camera makes it more like a documentary because it looks like he is talking to us the viewers.Vox Pops of general public saying who is their favorite character and why they like Simpsons, they are quick scenes that quickly move on.Sound of the Simpsons Documentary stays with the modd that is set, music that is happy etc.Clever cuts graphics to open next scenes e.g. Marges hair going past the screen or a donut rolling past the screen.Funny Simpsons scenes to highlight the funny parts of the documentary.
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MOBILE DOCUMENTARY AND EVALUATION
Planning and Research
Well we quickly made a mide map of what we were gonna need in the documentary, so we knew that we needed cutaways of phones and people using them. Plus we had to get someone to interview. Plus we decided to interview our interviewee in front of a blue screen so we caould put mobile pictures as the background for the interviews. We didn't do much research because we had a really limited time in doing the quick documentary so we just had to get everything we needed and start the filming process.
Filming Process
So the first thing we film was the interview, once we got that out of the way we could get all our cutaways done. In the interview filimbg all we did was have the interviewee look past the camera answering question about mobiles that we were giving her. Once the interview was done we started getting tracking shots of phones in close up shots. Recorded people on the phones sat on fields and students using their phones so that we could give meaning to what our interviewee was saying. Once that was all done we went to the edit suite to start uploading our recordings and starting editing them together.
Editing
When we started to edit our documetary togther we had to first we had to use the razor tool on adobe premiere to cut up the interview so that we could split the questions up and separate them so that we could add cutaways between them and to make the documnetary longer as well. With the editing we had to was add the photos of the mobiles for the blue screen. and then we had to find some music and add it to the documentary to help set the atmosphere.
Evaluation
As a first documentary i would say it was a successful first documentary because it has the interview that anwsers questions about mobile phones. It has mise en scene that is in the same theme of the documentary and the music is alright of keeping a chill and relaxed atmosphere. The cutaways are fairly decent and I think they doo help with giving more meaning to what is being said, but sometimes I don't think I got decent cutaways that were more relevant to what was being said. The graphics - Blue Screen, the only problem was that the background has overlapped the recording so now the interviewee looks like she is floating, next time I would have checked the settings and fixed that problem. So in conclusion I think the for a first documentary that was done for a short period of time that it was fairly a success.
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