Prelim

I began making a prelim which was a documentary focusing on mobile phones. The aim of this prelim was to give us something to base our improvements from for the development process of my main documentary. This is particularly helpful for the editing process in future so we can improve upon where we went wrong last time. I was very happy with how the opening credits of my prelim were edited, in particular how it was in tune to this relevent piece of music:



I wanted the audience to associate our chosen theme tune with mobile phones from the introduction. The non-diagetic music becomes toned down in during the interview but does play throughout. Our film slightly rearranges the order of the song in the opening credits. For example, we cut the first four seconds of the music and pasted it to when the 'LOL' slowly appeared on screen; diagonally letter by letter. This sequence also included a panned close up of a phone lying on a table. The types of lighting on this shot blended in well with each other. There was natural lighting shining through the windows in the back and man-made lighting coming from the roof. We made sure of this by including several close up shots of people using their mobile phones for various purposes, such as Facebook, texting and making calls.

We found someone to interview for this documentary opening. She was a member of our teenage target audience who is an avid phone user called dccbbcgdxccgbcgbfcr; Tessy Adeybi. We were given a set of interview questions to ask her. We filmed the full interview in front of a blue screen. This was so an image relevent to the exposition could be edited behind her. Unfortunately, due to lack of time available to edit, we were unable to finish editing our prelim. We were still, however able to learn from our mistakes from last time.