Practise task

Task:

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

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

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 editing interview.

with a temporary title of Connecting people however this could be changed

Three mise-en-scenes have been planned
A technicians room, a road side and the school area.

Cut aways will be used of pictures of various mobile phones
Non digetic music will be used of old ring tones and music.
Voice overs

Questions:

1. Tell me what life was like before you had the mobile phone.
2. When did you get your first mobile phone and why did you get it?
3. Tell me about all the mobile phones you've had.
4. Tell me about your current mobile phone.
5. Why did you choose this phones?
6. Tell me about the ring tone you have on our phone and why you chose it?
7. What do you use your mobile phone?
8. How much does your mobile phone cost you each month?
9. How often do you send text messages?
10. What text 'language' do you use and how did you learn it?
11. What's the best thing about having a mobile phone?
12. What's 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 Filming and editing interviews

We wathed two extracts of documentries and establised the codes and conventions that make these documenties secuessful. We watched a five minute section of a Jaws documentry and a Simpsons documentry. Bellow are the following videos:

Jaws

Simpsons


Codes and Conventions of Filming and editing interviews:

Rule of Thirds: The screen is often split into three sections, it can vary from horrizontally to virtically, it is most often split into left, right, and centre.

Mise-en-scene: relevent to the topic which they are talking about.

Questions are often edited out.

Do not see interviewer.

Interviewee is normally sitting down and to the side of the screen so viewers can still see the mise-en-scene.

There is no light source behind them.

Graphics on screen to anchor person on screen.

Interviwee is the opposite side to the camera for example is the interview is to the right, the camera is to the left.

No direct mode of address, the eye contact it to the interviewer; not the camera.

The eyeline is upper half of screen.

cut aways are used most often they are:
archive suggested by somethin said in the interview
some are filmed with a different camera- for different shots.