Analysis of 6 documentaries.

Below are 6 documentary's that have been analysis:

Documentary- The devil made me do it - Marilyn Manson

Type of documentary:

• Exposity
• Interactive
• Observational
• Reconstructive
• Voice of god Anchors
• Voice over

Themes

• Religion – Satan
• Murder?
• Binary opposition – culture
• Devil
• Everyone in the world has a role to play
• Brain washing of rock
• Media (power)
• Violence
• Influence - youth
• Teenagers
• Music
• Vulnerability of teenagers
• Establishment vs. alternative culture
• Information age
• Kids and parents (communication)

Narrative structure

• Puppet master
• Reconstructions
• Non-linear
• When following Marilyn Manson – Linear (Following time in order)
• Follows Propp’s character theory – Hero – Villain
• Follows Levi Straus theory (Binary oppositions)
• Also follows Toderov’s theory – Equilibrium, disequilibrium etc
• Parallelism – asking audience – Girls and Marilyn

Camerawork

• Establishing Point of view shot of mountains
• Close up of brother to the woman who got murdered
• Over shoulder shot of man driving
• Tracking shot of people walking up the stairs
• Close up of coffin
• Three shot of people carrying coffin
• Talking heads
• Birds eye view of towns
• Hand held camera work
• Tilt frames
• Close up’s of graffiti
• Tracking shot of the police
• Shots of fans
• Tracking shot of Marilyn
• Shots of people swearing
• Close ups of peoples faces
• Long shot of men talking
• Long shot of doors in the dark
• Lots of night shots
• Tracking following brother
• Low angle of man looking at grave
• Close up of newspaper
• Shots of teenagers (groups) smoking and drinking
• Close up of hands clasped
• Following interviewer
• Low angle shot of Marilyn (power)
• Hand held tracking/ blurry to make it look real
• Long takes – direct address (follows various subjects

Mise-en-scene

• Religious stuff – Cross, Flowers, Grave stone
• People in suits
• Office background
• A church
• Religious iconology
• Teenagers smoking
• Darkness
• Rain
• Framing of concerts
• Grave yard
• Juxtaposition of fans
• Empty court
• Light at the end of the tunnel
• Binary opposition of Marilyn and interviewer

Sound

• Music
• Non-Diegetic
• Drum beats
• Whispering in the background
• Heart beat – non-Diegetic
• Non- Diegetic of woman’s confessions
• Thudding
• Stabbing
• Voice of god
• Violin solo
• Choir music in background
• Song at the end

Editing

• Non- Diegetic of voice over
• Italian with English overlay
• Cuts
• Reconstruction
• Cut to houses were girls live
• Red lighting
• Fades
• Cut away shots to establish location
• Cut from concert to streets

Archive material

• Footage of music video’s
• Interview with Marilyn
• Press conference

Graphics

• Title –opening dark to show evil and a cross in the devil
• Picture of person
• Names and texts on screens
• Newspaper articles
• Lyrics to the song (Reinforce what he was singing)
• Subtitles
• Dresses like the pope

Documentary- Marketing Movies

Type of documentary:

• Factual
• Educational

Themes

• Cinema
• Merchandise
• Advertising
• Films

Narrative structure

Camerawork

• Talking head, during interviews (Close up)
• Pan showing merchandise
• Fade to cinema
• Zoom to poster
• Long shot of audience
• Fast cutting (merchandise)
• Cut aways
• People on red carpet/ interviews
• Pan down on a poster
• Pans of poster
• Zoom out from poster
• Close up of stars – Jonathon Ross (Archive)
• Dissolves used e.g. poster to next picture

Mise-en-scene

• Merchandise
• Posters
• Talking heads- see who’s talking (authentistic)
• Camera crew
• Tie ins with merchandise etc
• Puppets
• Books/ before films etc

Sound

• Non- Diegetic of interview voicing over shots
• Voice over’s
• Sound track – engaging
• Voice of god

Editing

• Animated cut
• Cuts from interview to merchandise / posters
• Actual footage from films
• Trailers
• Teaser trailers

Archive material

• Zoom out of exhibit
• Stars e.g. Jonathon Ross
• Lee Evans
• Promoting merchandise
• Award ceremonies

Graphics

• Dates and money signs
• Three strands
• BB2 written at the top
• Animated cuts
• Copy/ Slow zoom of article
• Text under new interview and their role

Documentary- Meatloaf – The Music Biz

Type of documentary

• Exposity
• Interactive
• Informative
• Compulation

Themes

• Brit awards
• Meatloaf as specific example
• Music industry
• Products are created
• Branding of Meatloaf (Rebranded)
• Manipulation of audience
• Marketing industry

Narrative structure

• Brit awards (setting scene)
• Moves on case study of Meatloaf
• Smaller study of YMCA (the village people) – Nutshell
• Parallel narrative running – 2 strand narrative
• Linear – direct address
• Narrative in the narrative
• “Meat staggers obediently” (message behind the movie)
• Talent/ Product – Meatloaf
• Metaphors – Staggers obediently.

Camerawork

• Talking heads
• Low angle shot of radio city
• Camera then pans down
• Establishing shot of place
• Establishing shot of award ceremony
• Point of view shot – hand held shot to show behind the scenes
• Hand held to make audience feel as if they were there – press pass
• Interview
• Mid shots of interviewee
• Talking heads don’t look directly at the camera
• Establishing shot of virgin headquarters (show location)
• From mid shot to big close up (to make them connect)
• Hand held a lot in the meetings etc
• Set shot – interviews
• Insight on how Meatloaf really feels
• Hand held all over the place
• Close up of betting screen
• Few two shots
• Close up of NME magazine
• Zoom of radio city
• Juxtaposition Meat and managers walking
• Slow motion tracking of fans

Mise-en-scene

• Crowds of people
• Camera crew
• Magazine
• Celebrities
• Old phone
• Police man
• Head phones
• Everyone smartly dressed
• Steady cam’s
• Close camera work/ very busy
• Loads of people
• Background- interviewee in music studio with desk behind him (song writer)
• Sunglasses /rock and roll
• Direct interview
• Album covers in the background
• People dressed up (Santa)
• Studio background – anchor
• Betting office (screen of best)
• Moving image in backgrounds

Sound

• Voice of god narrator (male) non-Diegetic
• Audience screaming in joy “woo”
• Radio
• Diegetic bus from the crowds
• Background music
• Meatloaf’s songs
• Beating heart
• Voice over’s
• Peoples interviews
• Songs Diegetic
• YMCA- actual tracks
• Diegetic sound of camera clicking
• Talking about production of interviews

Editing

• Magazines talking etc
• Match on action
• Fading of interviewee (super imposed)
• Cut away shots to illustrate what they’re talking about
• Background of interviews
• Contrinuety editing
• Fades
• Talking heads
• Compiling techniques
• Juxtaposition of image of texts etc
• Background music

Archive material

• Celebrity
• Interview with stars
• Brit awards 1994- clips/ Grammys
• TV programme
• Meatloaf videos
• Footage of making the video (documentary)
• Footage from other programmes that Meatloaf has appeared in
• Music videos
• Posters
• Footage from things
• Trailers
• Top of the pops
• Stills
• Newspaper clips

Graphics

• Magazine collage with moving images
• Title – The Music Biz
• Titles of people
• Marketing research
• Filmed sheets of graphics
• Photographs- panned across e.g. Meatloaf
• Logo

Documentary- That Thing – Lara Croft

Type of documentary

Themes

• Lara Croft
• Technology

Narrative structure

• Introducing Lara Croft
• The film
• Comments from the creator of Lara Croft

Camerawork

• Talking heads done in close up
• Close ups sort of make it exciting/ dramatic
• Extreme close ups of Toby man
• Fast paced – speeded up- internet café
• Hand held camera

Mise-en-scene

• Background
• Film and computer

Sound

• Gun shooting
• Voice of god (code and convention)
• Video game music
• Music
• Voice over
• Diegetic and non-Diegetic
• Layers of sound – music in the background

Editing

• Interviewee put into computer screen
• Speeded up – fish eye lens to make it fast pace
• Short interviews
• cuts

Archive material

• using footage of video game and film
• Barbie adverts
• websites

Graphics

• Lara Croft – Graphics
• Name of screen – codes and conventions
• Texts – websites
• Pictures
• Computer screen around mans face

Documentary- Wild Welsh Zoo

Type of documentary

• Expository
• Reality TV
• Observational

Themes

• Business
• Animals
• Money
• Weather
• Zoo’s
• Animals injuries
• Vets
• Business trip
• relaxation

Narrative structure

• A woman with a dream to work with animals
• Brought a zoo
• Trying to get people to visit
• Linear narrative

Camerawork

• Establishing shot of Wales –Denby
• Two shot of woman and husband high fiving each other
• Fades
• Mid shot of family by car advertising zoo
• Tracking shots
• Three shot of woman with fans
• Low angle shot while woman’s driving
• Pan from bottom of fence overlooking farm
• High angle shot over looking animals
• Close up of animals
• People talking to camera
• Close up of animals and babies (Leema’s)
• Pan of café in zoo
• Close up of food being cut up – while woman talking
• Tracking shot of dog chasing kid
• Close up of kid putting bucket on woman’s head
• Extreme close up of kids face right in camera
• Establishing shot of zoo
• Close up of interviewee
• Close up of Leema’s injury
• High angle shot of kids playing in zoo
• Extreme close up’s of zebras
• Zoom out from herd of animals – fish eye lens used

Mise-en-scene

• Vet with dart gun
• Animals
• Animal food
• Wearing overalls (thick coats)
• Umbrellas (because of rain)
• Café – chairs etc
• Natural background
• vets

Sound

• Voice of god
• Animal noises
• Shot of the gun
• Phone call
• Rain
• Non-Diegetic music
• Oinking of the pigs

Editing

· Fade to white

· Cuts

· Elliptical editing

· Contrinuety editing

· Cut aways to animals and location

Archive material

• Animals playing round

Graphics

• Title swinging down onto the screen

Documentary- Don’t tell the bride

Type of documentary

• Reality TV
• Exposity

Themes

• Love
• Time
• Relationship
• Trust
• Wedding
• Control
• money

Narrative structure

• Man has to plan a wedding without the bride knowing
• The bride worried that he would make the wrong choices
• At the wedding the bride realises it doesn’t have to be a big wedding to make her happy.

Camerawork

• Mid shot of the couple being interviewed
• Pan of house
• Two shot of couple cuddling and saying good bye to one another
• Close up of best man knocking on the door
• Three shot of men talking in the pub
• Shot reverse shot of them talking to each other
• Close up of bar
• Over shoulder shot of mother and daughter walking into church
• Close up of grooms face shocked at church
• Establishing shot of run down church
• Establishing shot of town
• Pan showing inside of building
• Mid shot of interviewee
• Close ups of wedding shop
• Long shot of man in wedding dress

Mise-en-scene

• Signing a form
• Wedding dress
• Suitcase
• Casual dressed
• Sunglasses on head
• Groom with pen behind ear connoting business
• Church’s
• Laptop
• Football stadium
• Tudor castle
• Contempary buildings (modern)
• Old fashioned building – knights in shining armour

Sound

• Voice of god – narrator
• Non-Diegetic music
• Opera non-Diegetic music

Editing

• Contrinuety editing
• Elliptical editing

Archive material

Graphics

• Bride and groom come out of cake