The document evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of a mobile phone interview for a TV documentary. Strengths included properly framing the interview subject and using relevant cutaway footage. Weaknesses were that the background setting did not match the topic, lighting and props were lacking, cutaways were repetitive, some shots were shaky, music was too loud drowning out speech, and an obvious jump cut was left in.

1. Evaluation of my mobile
phone interview.

2. Strength's
 The framing of the interview that we did followed the codes and
conventions of what a TV documentary should have. This
included having the interviewee just of centre and by using
the rule of thirds.
 Another strength was that the interview content was all relevant
to the cutaways that were used in the footage.
 The font that was used in title sequence was relevant and looked
good and had a relevant title to the actual content

3. Weaknesses
 The mise-en-scene of the interview could be better because it
could have been more relevant to what the topic of the
interview was about rather than just plain white.
 We could have had better lighting and more props within the
interview to make it more realistic. We should have not let the
interviewee have a phone in her hands because she kept
looking down in the interview at her hands which meant that she
kept getting distracted
 We could have used more of a variety of cutaways rather than just
using ones that overlap and could have made them better by
cutting any bits of them out that didn’t need to be there.
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4. Weaknesses cont…
 Some of the shots were slightly wobbly because we used hand held
camera work which was bad because it meant that it didn’t look bad
and meant that the shot was steady.
 The music was rather loud which meant that it counter acted what was
being said by the interviewee and had words in it which meant that
there was a contest to be heard between the two people.
 There was also a jump cut left in the shot which meant that it looks bad and
just goes straight to the next question which makes it obvious to the
audience that we have edited the questions were edited out
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