Using relevant audience feedback, I am now able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of my interview. To ensure our interview was produced to the best of our abilities, we first had to plan as a group. This included planning; who we would interview, how we could split the work load fairly, what cutaways we would film and a range of camera angles we would try and cover.
We came together as a group and drew out what we thought would be suitable cutaways and what questions we would ask. This gave our group the opportunity to bond and bounce ideas off each other.
The filming process took one lesson. We hired a camera, and together took turns using props to firstly record our interview, and then record our cutaways. We agreed that Chloe would ask the questions for the interview, whilst Natasha used the camera to record myself being interviewed. The filming process was successful for the three of us because we were prepared due to planning what we would film and were we would film it the previous lesson.
Once we had recorded our interviews and cutaways we returned to class to start the editing process. We had planned to split our time equally so we each estimated we would spend around a lesson each in charge of using Adobe Premiere Pro so we could all become familiar with the software. At first we struggled coming to terms with how to use Premiere Pro as it had been years since we last used it, and we had never experienced editing this high tech before. However after some media technician assistance, we started to make good progress and were able to finish our interview for the deadline.
Whilst there was strengths to our interview, there was also some weaknesses, and therefore when everyone had finished their interviews we regrouped as a class and received audience feedback to highlight our success's and see how we could overcome our struggles. We found that the Mise en scene for our interview was good, but could be improved, as the interviewee was positioned infront of a door, so by passers we visable making it look a little unprofessional. A pro that was raised in our audience feedback was that our music bed was relevent in terms of linking to mobile phones as the song we used was Beyonce- Video Phone. Another strength raised of our interview that was raised was the fact that the interviewee looked at the interviewer throughout the interview and answered the questions correctly by using part of the question as their answer.
Although our cutaways appeared to be good ideas, they were some times too short for the audience who hadn't seen the interview before to understand, for example the cutaway were I was filmed unwrapping a birthday present which was a mobile phone. Therefore in future myself and my fellow group members now know to make them longer to ensure our interview is entertaining and easy to understand. Finally in terms of cutaways, there were no "jumps" in the interview as we successfully placed cutaways over the end and the beginning of two different questions to create a smooth running video.
All in all the interview worked well and was successfully framed, however the sound quality was not brilliant, so in future I now know I need to use a microphone to record the interview in order for it to be successful.
To conclude, I am proud of our first efforts of recording and editing an interview, considering we had never done something similar before. I took negative feedback fairly and will use it in future to ensure my work is completed to the best of my ability.
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