Question 1 of A2 Evaluation
- 2. INTERVIEWS Here is a an screenshot of an interview we did where we used the typical codes and conventions of an interview having the interviewee looking across the camera to the person asking the questions where the questions person is on the same level as the interviewee her eyes are two thirds of the way up and one third across. The interviewee was being questioned about hair as she was a hairdresser that is why we thought about the mise en scene carefully and decided that having hair products that are used would be a good set up. We also added graphics of a name strip with a photograph of a hair brush which then said the name and occupation of the interviewee which is positioned at the bottom of the screen. The atmospheric noises of the hair salon can also be heard in the background noise because the salon was in work mode, this challenged forms and conventions of a documentary because normally in an interview you can not hear can anything around other than the interviewee talking. Here the interviewer's face is lit up from the front not the back this supports forms and conventions. We got the interviewees to answer the questions back to us so that we could use the forms and conventions of this, we thought it gave the documentary more flow.
- 3. VOX POPS One of our vox pops we filmed Here is a shot of a vox pop we did with a person in public, we stopped people and asked them questions on film. We wanted to ask members of the public so we could different types of people such as backgrounds, gender, age ect. This helped us a lot because we knew what sorts of things people liked. We shot the vox pops outside the “Tony & Guy” salon because of the related questions we were asking them about hair. The equipment we decided to use was a Sony HXR MC2000E video camera which we then used a tripod to support. We used the tripod so it was easier to adjust height according to the person we was interviewing. We used a clip mic that was clipped on the person so that we were able to hear them clearly and so we wouldn't hear anything loud in the background that could distract the audience watching. The questions were asked by someone but then we got the people to answer the questions back to us, we did this because we wanted to use the forms and conventions of this because we think doing this created more flow to the vox pops than if the audience heard us asking the interviewee the question.
- 4. SOUND In our documentary we used the song “Five colours in her hair” By Mcfly. We did this because it relates to the documentary and it is an upbeat song so it creates an upbeat atmosphere. We went with the conventions of a voice over that would narrate the documentary so that the audience watching would listen to the narrator because of his authoritative tone. Having voiceover guides the audience to what we are trying to show them. We used a male voiceover we think its more soothing for the audience. Through out creating the documentary we used clip mics that were clipped onto our interviewee, we also tried to use the boom on the camera but the sound quality wasn't very good and it was difficult to hear what the people were saying so we are happy with the fact we used the clip mic for the rest of the interviews and vox pops. For the footage we used the boom for was had to be changed using the audio effects, using sound balance we was able to turn up the volume so that it was louder and the audience would be able to hear clearer.
- 5. GRAPHICS We added graphics onto the interviews that we made ourselves, we created the name strip on Adobe Photoshop. As well as creating the strip we added a photograph of a hair brush which is related to the documentary topic. The name strip and interviewee’s name rolls onto the screen when the interview first starts and then after 4-5 second of it being on the screen it rolls back off. Leaving the graphics on the screen to that amount of time lets the audience get the chance to read it but not enough for it to annoy them. We chose the colour pink as the colours scheme for the graphics because we think that even though hair reaches out to a lot of people it is still a feminine feature and the pink would reach out to female viewers. Here is a interview strip
- 6. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE We used archive footage to create a montage, we used celebrity haircuts that may influence a lot of people or have and we used a voiceover of part of the montage to introduce it to the audience. It helps explain what our documentary is about, some of the haircuts shown could be classed a an “Celebrity shocking haircut” or a “Hair disaster” this relates to not only our documentary title but the subject too. The montage also backs up certain parts of the documentary when we asked some interviewees questions like “What do you think is the most popular haircut at the moment?” and “Have you ever had a haircut influenced by a celebrity?”. Doing this challenges the forms and conventions of a normal documentary because it is not normally seen in a documentary that often. As part of the montage we have a voiceover introducting a video clip which then takes over the documentary by playing and showing this video for a few seconds this is to back up what the narrator is saying. The video is "Just dance" by Lady Gaga, this celebrity is used because a lot of her hair cuts and styles have influenced a lot of peoples hairstyles around the world.