We chose to interview 2 experts.

The first, Malik Mahmood, manager of Phone

Club in Solihull town centre, and the other Halyna Wheatley who is an
academic coach at Solihull Sixth form college.
We thought it would be a great idea to interview Malik and were really glad when he
agreed to do a short interview for us. We were pleased because the mise en scene and
location of his mobile phone shop meant that it was a busy period for walkers-by and the
whole shop was filled with mobile phone accessories this became our backdrop for the
interview with Malik, which looked great. This further represented that he knows a lot
about phones and can cater for a variety of phones. Interviewing Malik gave us
confidence for our documentary because it means we have someone that the target
audience will be able to trust and know his point of view is an important one for our topic
of mobile phone obsession.
We also enjoyed interviewing with Halyna, this gave us a more rounded view f the effect
specifically on individuals, family time and education. This was great because it was what
we planned to talk about and the fact she talked about this from her own perspective
gave us more confidence in that our documentary could turn out really good, now that
we have these two experts on film. The fact that these two experts age range was 37-50
will be good for the target audience of our documentary because it should create
meaning and the younger generation to look up to and trust these experts meaning that
they might be represented in a way that could change the audiences view point.
We made sure that the camera on the tripod was at eye level to both experts and also
aimed to put them in the right hand side of the camera shot. This is a typical code and
convention we are trying to remember when it comes to filming. We did this with Halyna
by using an over-the-shoulder shot, where I (Gina) was interviewing and listening to her
responses. With Malik, we just centred the camera more left so that he was right centred
and the mobile phone accessories were his backdrop. We aimed to make sure that the
mobile phones were fitted in the camera focus correctly so that it would create a certain
meaning for the audience to understand immediately, before the occupation of Malik is
introduced on screen, that he is an expert in the mobile phone industry.
We interviewed a number of SSFC students, as well as parents/family
members/general public in Solihull Town centre. We chose to stay in one location
for the different days to film Voxpops which prevented any members of our target
audience from getting confused and prevented making an unclear message to them. This
is also a typical code and convention used in documentaries which is why we kept the
camera in one location at a time.
At the start of the filming for our documentary we were aiming to make sure we were
gatekeeping and keeping both points of view alive. However, part-way through filming we
realised that the end result we would like is for the audience to believe they could be
addicted to their phones, or believe it is possible. Therefore we began to mediate our
filming so that most opinions expressed much more towards yes mobile phones are
obsessive. However, we chose not to mediate all filming, for example one of the
students we have interviewed for our Voxpops explained that he doesnt think he is
obsessed at all. This has given us a chance to show to our target audience that we are
not trying to make the documentary biased, but we are trying to create an overall
conclusive decision.