Preliminary- Interview prep

Interview Prep

>Work in groups, your task is to conduct an interview about the subject of mobile phones.
>Cutaway shots will be used throughout the interview which will break it up.
>This will be edited in when we have finished filming the interview.

Title: My Mobile & Me.
Mise en scene: option 1- Picture of iphone as the background when the interviewee is answering questions.















Music bed: Call on me - Eric Prydz

Questions for the interview:
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 have had.
4. Tell me about your current mobile phone.
5. Why did you choose this phone?
6. Tell me about the ringtone you have on your phone and why you chose it.
7. What do you use your mobile phone for?
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 oyou 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

>Every documentary has a Author, Producer, Directir, Screenwriter, Editor, Designer.

>When an interview takes place, the interviewee's eyeline is always in the middle, however they do not look directly at the camera. This shows that the interviwee is looking at the interviewer and not directly at the camera.

>Also when an interview takes place, if the interviewer is placed on the right, the interviewee will be placed on the left, and vice versa.

>They are filmed either in medium shot, medium close up or close up angles.

>The positioning of the interviewee is important, and also has to be as close to the camera as possible.

>The questions that are asked by the interviewer are edited out when watching the documentary.

>The mise en scene that is used such as the boards behind the interviee's, provides more information about occupation and the environment.

>If there is a light source coming from behind the interviewee, they choose to block this out so that the light source is always coming from the front.

>Cut away shots are used, whilst the interviewee is still talking and is showing maybe a part of the film, this breaks up the interview to avoid jump cuts.

>Cut away shots are either:
*Archive Material
*Suggested by something said in the interview and therefore filmed after the interview
*Aspects of the interviewee are filmed with another camera, such as extreme close up of eyes, mouth hands and used as cutaways

>Graphics are also used to anchor who the person on screen is and their relevance to the topic of the documentary.


To get this information, we looked at documentary extracts in class, these were:
>In The Teeth Of Jaws- Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Zj8R0kumw
>The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3D On Ice- Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orLGl7c5oHc