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1. The Devil Made Me Do It
TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY
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This documntary wasa 'Mixewd Documenatry because it used observational footage of kids at 'Marylon Manson's' concerts. Some of them were used as evidence to support what was being said by the interviewee or the narrator which was also used in the documentary. So the voice over pushes the narrative forward and even reconstructions were used to dramatize what was being said.
THEMES
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The themes in this documentary are murder where a nun was killed which then ends up having a religious theme, and since the nun was killed by teenagers that has become a theme as well as youth rebellion. I.e. Marylon Manson fans. That then includes music and the effects of media has on the youth.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
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At the begininig of the documentary there are opening scenes to attract and interest the viewer to watch the documentary. The documentary starts off with saying that a murder took place on a 'NUN' that was unprovoked and had no motives for her to be killed. This is to leave the viewer wanting to know more and see why she was killed.
In the middle the killers were idendified as teenagers, which lead to finding out reasons and influences that lead the girls to such as violent act. One Influence that came about was Marylon Manson who is a 'SATAN WORSHIPPER' and writes and sings rock and dark songs.
By the end of the documnetray a resolution was resolved by hearing that the teenaged girls had been sentence for their crimes and final thoughts of the interviewee's and giving their different opinions on what they think caused these girls to do such a thing.
CAMERAWORK
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There are a numerous camera angles used in this documentary, such as low angle shots up at Marylon Manson while he is at his concert. This signifies that he is all powerful and has all the people in the concert under his influence. Furthermore makes him look like a 'GOD'. Plus we have High angle shots used over the town the nun was murdered in, this gives connotations that the town is vulnerable because of the act that has taken place and how everyone is in shock by it. There is also a canted angle shot that has been used in a reconstruction with the teenaged girls explaining the murder. So that signifies to the viewers the confusing and how wrong this act was because the camera isn't up porperly. Plus its like its putting you in the nun shoes with the blurry effect showing the confusion the nun would have been while she was attacked. Throughout the documentary there were lots of close ups on graffiti and inverted crosses to help give more meaning and depth to what certain interviewee's are saying.
MISE-EN-SCENE
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The 'Psychologist' was wearing red which signified that she had power because she looked clean and presented herself as very strong. Shows that she wanted to know the reasons and how Marylon Manson might influence young teenagers even without him meaning too. The setting of the interviewees you can see there are in their own enviroment, e.g. bedrooms or homes. This is relevent to the documentary because of the situation that has happened. So it gives connotaions of them feeling safe in their homes as well as protection from the dangers from the outside.
Then we had setting of marylon Mansons concerts. This setting was all dark which signified darkness and evil, and what he wears on stage has connotations of the devil and hatred of the church. Plus the clothes of what the fans are wearing which is all white painted faces with black make-up on their eyes and lips with black clothing. The black clothing again signifies darkness and the white make-up can mean death and supporting it can be signified as worshipping the devil. Furthermore since all the young people a wearing similar clothes to Marylon manson can show how he has influenced or brainwashed the kids to believe what he believes.
Plus we see two sides to Marylon Manson, the singing of him at his concerts where he is acting controversial and hating on teh Church and the part of Marylon where he is wearing none of his costumes and is visiting 'Vaticans', which leaves confusion on what he is being controversial on.
SOUND
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First of all we have church music which helps emphasize the meaning that a nun has been murdered and tells the viewer right away that this documentary is going to be about religion etc. In the reconstruction the reconstruction of the murder was more about sound rather then visuals. Like you could hear a knife sounds and other noises that went through the murder to dramatize what the nun was going through and to make the viewers feel sorrow and pity for the nun. Obviously Marylon Manson's music was used showing him at his concerts etc. The clash between his music and the churches music shows the conflict between them in the documentary.As well as showing you what might be influencing and brainwashing young people into violent beliefs. There where also natural sounds from the streets and birds to show some calm of the streets of the town, so to signify the calm after the storm. Then we have a heartbeat at the reconstruction of the murder. The heartbeat gradually going slower why the girls explain the murder which dramatizes what they did and gives a chilling feel to what they are saying.
EDITING
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There were lots of cutaways that was relevant to what was being said, this helps give more meaning to what is being said from hearing as well as visually to make more sense of the story. We also see match on actions in Marylon Mansons concerts. You can tell because the camera will cut to different cameras but will always saty looking at where the action is which in this case is Marylon Manson on stage performing his songs. there were also eyeline matches that were disoriantated at the nun murder sequence to make you feel what the nun might of been feeling when she was being killed. Also had some long takes, but they were mostly establishing shots of the town so that the viewer knows where the murder was taken place. Then we did have some fast pace editing to build tension and excitement and we also had slow pace editing which helped dramatize certain scene, i.e. the nun reconstruction.
ARCHIVE MATERIAL
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Marylon Manson music videos are Archive footage and you can watch his 'SWEET DREAMS' music video at the top of this post. This helps give more meaning to what type of music he puts out into the world and why he does it. Footage of the trial the teenaged girls had to go through which is evidence showing the viewer that the nun being murdered is in fact a true story. We have some archive footage of Marylon Mansons concerts but most of them in this documentary were observational. There is archive footage of what I presume is the NUN FUNERAL which emphasizes how upsetting this act was on the people of that town.
GRAPHICS
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There were only simple graphics used in this documentary, this is so that the graphics won't take attention away from what is being said. Plain white text used to introduce the interviewee's and theur occupation. Plus used as subtitles to the girl describing what they did to the nun. Reason for that was so the viewer can understand and to make sure they dont miss a word of what they did to show that much more on how guilty those teenaged girls are in their murderous act.
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2. Marketing Movies BBC2 Education Documentary
TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY
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This is a mixed documentary because it has archive footage of movies such as 'Mouse Hunt' as well as trailer and other films footage like 'The Little Mermaid'. It also has observational sequences of movie premieres and cameras looking at the movies stars and getting little interviews from them. Plus narration is ysed to explain what is on the screen so that the viewer can understand more in depth of what is being said.
THEMES
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The themes in this documentary are about Marketing films around the world, as well as persuation. Also about the target audience of the films and how to attract certain types of ages groups to come see the film. Plus how posters can help get a success full marketting campaign. The rest of the themes are advertising and publishing.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
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Begining of the documentary you get the question asked so that the viewer knows what the documentary is about. Then we get told how important marketting is for films and that added with beaty tune makes it look fun and interesting to watch which attracts viewers.
Middle slows down the fun ffrom the beginning to give a bit more of a serious atmosphere, which then leads to the importance of marketting and how money is sed during marketing with evidence of cutaways to give the viewers facts on what is being said. Example of cutaways is 'MouseHunt'.
Ending is about how they marketed Mousehunt and how they made the posters and trailers persuasive to the movie consumers so that they will go and watch it. They did use stuff like Publisity, which was interviews with the stars of the films and posters and trailers to tease the target audience to come and watch the film.
CAMERAWORK
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Close up in interviews with static camera used. Deep focus to see posters in the background posters which goes into shallow focus to see the intervieweee. High angles looking down on Londin to show its the filming capital of the UK. Close ups of tickets and money from people going to see films. Close ups of posters and what elements are important in a poster.
MISE-EN-SCENE
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Posters in the backgrounds of interviews are relevant to the documentary with the interviews in places that are relevant in marketing, that helps achor the meaning. Cinemas setting off premieres of film with famous faces showing upp that helps publisize films. Everything was pretty much set in London the Uk capital of filming. No American voice over narration which it should have since they are experts on film marketing.
SOUND
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First of all we have Natural sound which tell the auddience that this interview has real answers and truth. There was a music bed throughout the documentary to make the whole show seem exciting with upbeat music near begining and end. However sound was underused in this documentary.
EDITING
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At the begining of the documentary you have quick cuts to make the documentary look interesting straight away to get the viewer interested in the show. Throoughout you have cutaways from interviews and film footage etc.. that helps make the vviewer more intrigued on what the documentary about. All cutaways are relevant to what is being said so that the viewers can understand the explainations. Fade is used in the interview from a man talking to another interview which makes it look very amateur. Superimposition is used to show graphics in a scene to visualizes what is being said to make it more undetsatndable to the viewer on what is being said. Plus dissolves where also used and this is usually used to show time passing by in a interview to miss out the less important things that are being said.
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE
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Actual film Footage is being used such as 'MouseHunt' & 'The little Mermaid' etc. Also with trailers of lion king and more.This helps suport what is being said. There a actuality and observational footage of premiere nights with famous stars coming to watch the film that is soon to be released. All this used as evidence.
GRAPHICS
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The graphics were used constantly in this documentary showing the interviewees names and job occupations. Plus a little cartooon clamping a film action tool which is aimed at the target audience of the more younger generation. Used box graph graphics to show how marketing is done.
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3.The Music Biz
TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY
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This is another mixed documentary becasue its has interviews that are relevant and has narration and observational sequences with archive footage of relevance to the music biz.
THEMES
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Meatloaf the singing artist is a main theme of this documentary and how important it was at their time to get a christmas number one single. Plus as well as marketing and music in general as the main themes of this documentary.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
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Begining your given a little information about the music buisness to see if it interest the viewer as well as seeing 'Meatloafs' change of Image over the years. That added with a little conflict from little cut interviews of peoples opinions on marketting music.
The Middle you see Meatloaf explaining on how to relaunch himself to get his career back on track. Then we see more conflict about how Meatloaf went about doing that, like how he had to remorgage his houses to pay for his new single video release.
The Ending the resolution is that all the sacrifice Meatloaf made had paid off because his music video became number one for 8 weeks and even all the money problems paid off.
CAMERAWORK
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There are lots of close ups in Meatloafs interview which signifies that he is the star of the documentary and how he is more important than anyone else in the documentary. There are some close ups of some people of importance. As well there are mid shots in the interviews we can show less importance but they do have something to say in the documentary. Medium shots of celebrities accepting awards to be shown as evidence of winning music awards. Also have panning shots following people again with importance. There is also interaction with eh camrea man where he nods the camera to answer a question. Zooms used to get in close to see Meatloaf and used on Meatloaf conferences.
MISE-EN-SCENE
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Grean/blue screen was used as the backdrop in the interviews that was showing backgrounds that were relevant to the documentary. We saw the settings of Meatloafs photoshoots and music videos that shows his style of music. We can see who he characterises as when he puts on his make-up. Award cerormony settings that look extravigant to show its a special occasion where stars are winning awards. That where Meatloaf gets the press coverage as well as recieving awards. This documentary is set in the London and LA scene, so big cities.
SOUND
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We again have natural sound from the interviews and then a narrator that is guiding the viewers throughout the documentary. Since the documentary is about the music biz we hear tracks from the charts from the 1900s. We also here Meatlaofs Track and some village music used. Again with the natural sound in the press conference. Sound FX we hear is a heartbeat in the background and this is to build tension as well as emphasize how important is was at that time to get a number single.
EDITING
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Reverse and reverse cut to show maybe the conflict of who is more important between Meatloaf or the Director or can show what there relationship is like. Relevant cutaways shot of Meatloafs music videos and archive footage to enforce facts to what is being said. Fast pace editing at the begining again to make the documentary look exciting to show what the documentary is about with little snippets of interviews and cutaways. We also have a dissolve that to give a little break from the interview for a minute.
ARCHIVE MATERIAL
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Footage of Meatloafs music viideo as evidence and his concerts as well to be used and show the viewers why he is famous. We also see the Mr Blobby video which is used as evidence to show what song Meatloaf had to face against for the christmas number one. Then we have award ceremonies to see music artists winning awards for thei music. Plus we see 'TAKE THAT' music video, and also grammies footage and conferences all again used to enforce what is being said throughout the documentary.
GRAPHICS
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Simple graphic text to show names and job occupations of the interviewees. But the opoening titles of magazines showing faces of people and looks fancy graphics, which makes the documentary look fun and exciting.
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4. Lara Croft that Thing
TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY
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This documentary is another mixed docuemntary because it has archive footage of the Lara Croft game itself as well as clips from the movie that was doone. Plus had narration to explain observational sequences of for example people playing the game. Then we have the interviews from people who are in relevance to the game Lara Croft like the creatorr of the game.
THEMES
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Well the themes in this documentary is first of all games and star icons. It then has themes of feminism, sexual fantasies and girl power. Especially the effects of the media because Lara Croft became a celebrity who is fake because she is a game character.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
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The begining you got an introduction to what the Lara Croft games whre about and interviews from gamers and talking about how it started to become very poupular.
The middle of the documentary started to talk about how Lara Croft started to become a realistic character because of CGI and how some fans startd thinking she was a real person. Since Lara Croft became that popular the game is turned into a movie and we see footage of the movie and an interview from Angelina Jolie who portrayed Lara Cfroft. We also see fans sites dedicated to her as well as sexual sites dedicated to Lara Croft.
The ending we see observational footage of fans trying to mimic Lara Croft and how people had expectations for the movies.
CAMERAWORK
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So there was a static camera used in the interviews with medium shots in the interviews as well so we can see who is being interviewed. Get cutaways shot of the Tomb Raider games to enforce whats being said, as well as seeing the cutaways from the films that star Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. Plus we have over the shoulder shots of people playing Lara Croft's Tomb Raider game to be shown as evidence that the game is popular. We also have canted angle shots used as well.
MISE-EN-SCENE
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The settings of the documentary are relevant to what the subject is, so we have people playing Tomb Raider in a gaming setting, everything looks dark and the projector the gives the backdrop makes the interviewees look like they are in the gaming world. So it makes the interview and documentary look a bit more sinister since Lara Croft the game has turn into a lot more than just the game. Everything in the settings is based around gaming, so we see computers, buttons and others stations that are involved in creating a game.
SOUND
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Well we get obvious sound effects from the Tomb Raider game itself which enforces what the documentary is telling the viewers about. To make the documentary exciting we have action music playing which is diegetic because lara croft is an action character. We also hear gun shots which gives a bit of fun and danger to the documentary as well as telling the viewer on what the game is like. We also see and hear trailers from the Tomb Raider movies which is used as evidence of Lara Croft risen popularity.
EDITING
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They have a numerous amount of cutaways of the game Tomb Raider and the movies to enforce how popular the game and Lara Croft has become. We seepeople playing the games as well which is again used as evidence of the fans who love Lara Croft. Plus we see cutaways shot of sites that are dedicated to Lara Croft and that is used as evidence on how obsessed fans have gottn over Lara Croft. We also see adverts of Tomb Raider.
ARCHIVE MATERIAL
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In this documentary we have footage of adverts for Lara Croft the movie and the games. Then we have film footage of Angelina Jolie potraying Lara Croft in The Tomb Raider Movie.
GRAPHIC
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Simple text graphics to introduce the interviewee, but the main graphics was the man in side the computer screen which made him look more important because his interview looked different Before he even spoke you would always see a close up on a mouse clicking the play button to continue with his interview.
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5. The Simpsons Access All Areas
TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY
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This is a mixed documentary because it has narration throughout the show, wiith archive footage being used to support what is being said. It has interviews from people who work on the animations of The Simpsons and some famous faces talking about why they like Simpsons. Observational sequences are used on people with Simpsons merchandise and characters etc.
THEMES
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Themes in this documentary are about cartoons, how they are created, the audience of the Simpsons, the success of the show, and family since the Simpson is based around family and how the Simpsons started.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
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Begining of the doc you have them introducing the main characters of the sjow, and talking to producers about how Matt Groening created the Simpsons after his first funny sketch and how he came up with the characters. Then introduction to some of the actors who play simpson characters and more simpson characters shown.
Middle of the doc you have them talking about the acting of the Simpson characters, and also about the writing of the scripts of the episodes and how they come up with decisions on what works in the script and what doesn't. You also see all the stations where the Simpson is created and see how much work is put into the making of the simpson episodes.
Ending of the doc they talk about how they will carry onn with the simpsons until people start losing interest and because its one of the longest cratoon ever run. Plus with Matt Groening saying that they will never run out of ideas for episodes. Plus with little comments on the contraversy the show gives.
CAMERAWORK
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Over the shoulder shots used for example of the comoser composing the simpsons theme tune. Medium shots of the interviews with the right framing for a documentary. Pans used in the composing cutaway just to show you all the people playing different instruments. Close up of the instruments to see in detail what instruments are being played. Close ups of people drawing the simpsons. Full shots of observational sequence of pedestrains getting photos on a real-life simpson couch and getting photos with the Simpsons character wihich are in costumes. We even get an observational sequence of Matt Groening drawing one of the simpson characters which signifies him being more important since he is the creator of the simpsons.
MISE-EN-SCENE
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Everything in the documentary fits into the theme of the simpsons. The background of the interviews have cutouts of the simpson characters, we get to see the studios of the simpsons to see where they are created and what sections do what for the making of an episode. So we see places like the storyboarding areas, colouring studio, recording studio and more. Some poeple in offices for their comfort etc. Also green screeen has been used for some famous faces too look like they are sitting on the simpsons couch with is a fun effect.
SOUND
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The Simpsons tune is usedat the beginning of the documentary, and we have sound effects from simpson episodes to give humor into the doc. We have interviews of stars talking about what they like about simpsons with natural sound from the interviews.
EDITING
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We have simple cuts from one interview to the next to help pish the subject forward. HAve fast editing at the beginning at the opening titles to make it look exciting with quick interview answers and observational sequencesof pedestrians getting photos with the simpson characters, on a real simpson coach. Also slower editing so you can see what is being said and will also let us see the process of making an episode of the simpsons so won't go to fast so that the viewers are able to know how things are done in the studios to be informed. Cutaway shots of simpson episodes to give more meaning to what is beiing said and to add humor. Plus observational sequences of people working on the simpsons eppisodes.
ARCHIVE MATERIAL
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First of all the Simpsons episode cutaways are archive footage, and we also see all the sketches of the Simpson characters from the first drawing to how they are drawn now. This archive material shows us the audience how the simpson have grown and been improved over the years.
GRAPHICS
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On the opening titles the characters of the simpsons faces are shown so you know what the documentary is based on. The names of the interviewees stayed with the theme of the documentary, for the text it was black and the box around the text was yellow, yellow is the colour of the simpsons sskin, so it matches.
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6. Medical Detectives: In the Bag
TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY
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This is a mixed documentary because it has archive footage from scenes of the murder and court case hearing etc. has interviews with families and crime investigator experts. Observational sequences of street houses and cars driving. Narration forwarding the story. Reconstruction of murder to push the narration as well. Plus cutaway shots.
THEMES
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The theme in this documentary are murder, luck, money, evidence and family.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
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Beginning of the documentary was about the little grandson discovering dead grandparents and then telling people, with the police trying to find out if they had any leads which they didn't - cliffhanger.
Middle of doc they find a small lead on a family suspect and start finding evidence and mootives on suspect which is the son of the granddad. Showing how the experts use the equipment to collect evidence to convict or connected to the murder.
End of doc was the resolution of the murder was the grandfathers son being the murdered and being convicted, shows footage of the court hearing. Then we see a full reconstruction of how the murder took place that has been built around facts.
CAMERAWORK
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Have a lot of close up cutaway shots on when they are looking at evidence, like the shotgun, showing how they use their equipment to collect evidence. We also have wide shots being used of houses and roads of the town in which the murders took the place. Cutaways shots of archive footage used as evidence to what is being said so the viewers can see that they are using true facts that they can beleive. Also have canted angle shots used in the reconstructions which gives the meaning that the crime being committed is wrong and shcoking. Folley shots used to show travelling of the small boy running to his pre school. Meadium headshots in the interviews. Over the shoulder shots of the man getting the serial number of the shotgun. a pan down to up of people on the bridge to show the height of the bridge.
MISE-EN-SCENE
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Setting matches the theme of the documentary, with the police and the crime investigating scene, like the labs and the police stations etc. Interviews are if they a involved in the investigation of the murder like the police or people in crime labs, they are interviews either in the police station or an office or in the crime labs. Family members are interviewed at their homes where they feel most likely feel comfortable being interviewed. Setting in the reconstruction where all in the same theme of mystery and murder, this help dramatized what the murderer had commited, which also helps the documentary give out emotional responses to the viewers who could be disgusted to what has happened in the crime.
SOUND
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Piano based music that sounds very eerie, to evoke fear into the viewers as well as to make the documentary seem shocking. Plus to gove suspense and tension build to make the viewer more interested. Music kinda sounds like the excorcism. Gunshot sound effects which are synchronous sound used in the reconstruction to resemble the gun firing. Serious music being played to signify that the investigation is making progress. Sound FX of a bang to the cut the scene to the next scene, gives a shock to the next scene to the viewer. Narration to ppush the narrative and the interview of the interviewees had natural sound.
EDITING
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Superimposition of crime reports andd photos appearing in front of eachother to show evidence that they are taking into account to help catch a lead on there murder investigation to solve the murder. Quick cuts at the opening titles to intrigued the viewers of the police solving a real murder investigation. Normal slow cuts to picture, observational and interviews so that the viewer can keep up with what is being said and as well as understanding whats going on.
ARCHIVE MATERIAL
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We have real footage of the scene of the murder with the victims dead bodies in the room with the camera looking around the house. Pictures of the families to help show who they are why they explain about their lives. We also see wedding pictures of the murdered couple and suspects as well. We also see phone call history papers which are used as evidence. Footage of the trial of the murder of the son of the murdered man being trialed for the murder. this is shown to the viewers on the swift resolution of himgetting sent down for the murders. Newsppaper articles of the murders were used as well as crime reports.
GRAPHICS
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Simple white text that introduces the interviewees wwith a small black box behind behind text that represents darkness, with red colour moving in the box as well which can signify blood or murder. The opening titles had fancy police tage saying "MEDICAL DETECTIVES" and a simple text saying 'in the bag'.
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