Evaluation of the Preliminary task 

The first point we received during evaluation of our

documentary was that we needed to improve the quality

of our pictures as they were blurry and people said they

could not see the images. It is important that we have clear

images as if we don’t then the audience/viewers will not be able to clearly see what the

image is about or what we are trying to communicate through

these pictures.

Improvements

The second piece of advice we received was that the area where we held the interviews needed to be

altered so that it was more related to the topic of phones. To do this we

could include props and multiple examples of

mobile phones so that it is ensured that the audience

knows what the documentary is about.

Improvements

The third piece of criticism gained from the evaluation of our documentary was

that people said that the interview audio is very quiet and was hard to hear the

interviewee throughout the documentary. it is crucial that we change

this as if the viewers can't hear our interviewees then there is no point

having them in the documentary as no one can understand what they are saying.

The interviewees have one of the most important jobs in the documentary as

they provide opinions and facts. People also said the environment where the interviews were carried out was also

noisy and this is one of the reasons why the interviewees couldn’t be heard

therefore in order to correct this we need to find an environment where it is certain

that there will be no noise or interruptions throughout the interviews.

Improvements

The final piece of criticism we received was that the

editing and cuts in the interview were a bit too

jumpy meaning the documentary would cut

from shot to shot too quickly making the

documentary look badly edited and sometimes

resulting in the interviewee being cut off.

Improvements

When it came to the positive feedback about

our documentary the first thing mentioned was that

we had a good range/multiple interviews and this is a crucial part of

making a successful documentary as having a wide range of interviews

means a variety of different people are interviewed

gaining different opinions and beliefs from each

person and this is important as it ensures the

documentary doesn’t become biased or focused

on one side/opinion.

What we did well

The second complement from the evaluation was

that people agreed that the music we chose to put in

the documentary was good as it related to the topic of

the documentary whilst making it more upbeat and

exciting keeping the audience/viewers

interested and this is essential. We also had

music playing very quietly in the background of the interviews again to keep the documentary upbeat

and interesting.

What we did well