Crystal Meth

Type of Documentary
Poetic Documentary
Themes

• Drugs.
• Police.
• Medicine.
• Communities.
• Destruction of people.
• Children in homes.

Narrative Structure

• Investigating Crystal Meth.
• Linear Structure.
• Viewing from the police point of view.
• Some interviews of people who have done the drug.
• Children taken and put into homes because of their parents on the drug.

Camera Work

• Shots of the drugs in bags.
• Pan of the area.
• Handheld - real footage.

Mise-en-scene

• See the change in people.

Sound

• Tunes in the background while pictures are being showed - no lyrics.
• Rock music used.

Editing

• Before and after photos of people on the drug.
• Shows evidence of what the narrator is talking about.
• Interviewees on the right of the screen.
• Pictures of the man they are talking about - showing a time line of pictures of him gradually through the time in which he's taken the drug.

Archive Material

• Investigator finding out about Crystal Meth.
• Very big in America.
• Getting more and more addicts in American, spreading through-out.

Graphics

• Sub heading on interviews.