Themes.
Terrorism.
Fight for Survival.
How peoples lives changed. Narrative Structure.
Linear.
Closed narrative structure.
Single strand.
Camerawork.
Interviews - MCU, CU, framed right or left of screen, eyeline 1/3 way down the screen.
Birds eye view of skyline.
Tilt shot up the towers.
Handheld camera - most used because people recorded it as it happened.
Panning shot.
Zoom out of buildings.
Zoom into still images.
Tracking shot of rubble.
Wide shot of firefighters.
POV shot.
CU of firefighters badge.
Long shot of empty streets filled with rubbish.
Two shot of two firefighters.
Mise-en-scene.
Fireengines.
Firefighters.
Police.
Cameras.
Background of interview -grey.
Sound.
Voice over - male, standard english and calm.
Screams.
Phonecalls.
Music in the background.
Messages off the radio.
Editing.
Writing dissolve off screen.
Cut - different people running and screaming.
Re-construction. Archive Material.
Radio messages.
News shows audio.
Footage of towers falling.
Graphics
Translation of audio - serif, white and yellow font.
Interview - name and title- serif and bold.
Time, date and where they are - white font, serif and bold.
Themes: Games, creation of Lara Croft, representation of females and power of the media.
Narrative structure: closed narrative structure, non-linear, single strand narrative structure.
Camerawork: ECU interviewee. Fast pans/tracks. Pans across tomb raider title. Interview - eyeline 1/3 of the way down the screen, left or right of the screen in low angle, tilted interview. Pan over pictures. Whip pans. Fast tracking shots.
Mise-en-scene: Dark face of interviewee.
Sound: Game sound in the background of interviews. Sound effects.
Editing: Game playing in the background of the interview. This could distract the audience from the interview.
Archive material: Games. People playing games. Barbie footage. Tomb raider film. Latters to Lara Croft. Pictures of Lara Croft.
Graphics: Lara Croft - Bold, White and capitals. Name - Bold. Title - smaller than name.
Type of documentary: Mixed - interview, acuality footage, archive material and observation.
Themes: Devil worship VS religon. Crime - murder investigation. Youth of today. Power of the media - can the media influene individuals behaviour.
Narrative structure: Open narrative structure. Non-linear. Single strand.
Camerawork: Interviews - low angle of Marilyn Manson gives him power. MCU or CU framed left or right, eyeline 1/3 way down the screen.
Guy selling poster - handheld carmera work.
P.O.V of inspector - OTS of two police men in the front of car then shot of inspector getting out of car.
CU of faces - show emotion.
Stock footage - churches, religious iconograogy, crosses, bell towers, alot of the footage is in low angle or high angle.
Tracking - following police officer walking upstairs: Manson walking through Rome/Macdonalds.
Paning.
Crane at cemetery.
Zoom - still images - inamite objects creates intrest.
Handheld camera.
Two shot of mother and father.
P.O.V of a fan in the crown of a Manson gig.
Manson press conference when her arrived in italy. Cameraman observesthe jornalists questioning Manson. Looks into another viewfinder of a camera.
Mise-en-scene: Police man - low angle of cap (big) on a desk.
Isolated nun.
Manson fans in make-up looking like Manson.
Man in graveyard alone.
Stockfootage - dark but a slight glow which gives out mystical feeling.
Manson interview - lighting - half face light/dark - saint and sinner. Artifical light.
Sound: Voice over - narrator - Male standard english, very calm. The voice over is 'the glue that hlds the narrative together.'
Other voice overs are translaters - most translators where the same as person being translted. eg male, fat.
Manson music.
Orchesteral music.
Sound effects.
'I spend more time speaking to their kids than they do.'
Editing: Cut.
Film priest driving the whole interview is audio, slow motion is used.
Clever, conveying a boring town linking the speech and the boring music.
Juxtaposition - opposite things eg, girls swearing and religious music. Putting two opposing things together to create meaning.
Macdonalds - he is a actor - The organisation looks at globzalisation. (Organisation destroys the identity of cultures.)He is meant to be standing up for individuality.
Archive material: Mansons music videos.
American TV coverage of riots.
News fooge - nuns funeral and police investigation.
Italian talkshows.
Still photos of woman with Marilyn Manson engraved on her chest.
Graphics: Names - white text (bigger), Sans serif font - simple - relevence (smaller) - job title eg father, mother etc.. Anchors the person to the topic. Left or right of the screen.
Title - Gothic - cross insted of 'T'.
White text on black screen to close documents, extract from diary, credits scrolling upscreen, translating Mansozdn lyrics, dates and locations.
The purpose if the documentary is to document, that is to report with evidence somethin that has actually happened. It an show thisby using ACTUALITY FOOTAGE or reconstruction. It can use narrators voiceover to anchor the meaning or rely on the participants themselfs with perhaps the occasional interjection by the narrator.
Actuality footage is 'real' footage of actual events.
John Grierson - General post office film unit in 1930's. Defined documentary as : "the creative treatment of actuality." (or reality)
Features of documentaries.
John Corner of university of Liverpool. There are 5 centeral elements of the documentary.
Observation - The programme makers pretend that the camera is unseen or ignored by people taking part in the events. Audience is like eye witness observing, ignoring the camera.
Interview - People give opinion/information. They are relied on by documentary.
Dramatisation - all documents use a scene of drama through the observation element or dramatic reconsruction.
Mise-en-scene - Put in the picture. documentary makers carefully construct shots.
Exposition - The line of arguement in a documentary. Start with an idea the an exposition (the way the story is told.) It is what the document is 'saying'.
Different types of documentary.
Fully narrated - a voice over is used to convey the exposition. The voice over is used to make sence of the visuals and dominates their meanings. eg, wildlife, natural history documentaries.
fly on the wall - Draws in the french film movement 'cinema verite'. The camera is unseen or ignored and simply records real events as they unfold.
Mixed - combination of interview, observation, acuality and archive material and narration to advance the arguement/narrative.
Self - flexive - when the subject of the documentary acknowledges the presence of the camera and often speaks directly to the programme maker.
Docudrama - re-enactment of events.
Docusoap - documentary and soap opera. A group of centeral protagonists. Eg, airport.
Structure of documentaries.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE.
Open - loose ends which are not tied ip at the end.
Closed - there is a definate conclusion to the narrative.
It is either open or closed it cannot be both.
Linear - follows cronological order.
Non-linear - things are not in time order. eg, flashback or flashforward.
Circular - starts and finishes on the same thing.
Visuals - television is a visual medium. The programmeneeds too be visually stimulating to maintain the audience intrest.
Archive material - Street sceens, open countryside and close up of faces are all stock footage.
Interview - an interview can be held anywhere but the setting (mise-en-scene) can effect the meaning.
Vox pop (vox populis) - voice of the people. Get random people off the street ans ask them all the same questions. To get a representation of the audience.
Construction of reality.
Gatekeeping - The selection and rejection of information/content for inclusion in a media text.
editing - process is where gatekeeping happends in a documentary.
Voice over - can effect and alter meanings. It anchors the meaning of the visuals.
