Lara Croft

Type of Documentary
Expository Documentary
Themes

• Violence.
• Representation of women.
• Feminism.
• Gaming.

Narrative Structure

• Lara Croft within a game and also a real life film too.
• Talking about her developing.

Camerawork

• Canted angle.
• Extreme close up of interviewees face.
• Medium close up.
• Shows game footage + zooms out to show the person playing the game.

Mise-en-scene

• Background in interviews is footage from the Lara Croft game.
• Computers and computer mise.
• Dark, dull lighting in the game.

Sound

• Music from the game.
• Lara Crofts voice.
• Male voice over.
• Sound effects.
• Game play footage; audio.

Editing

Archive Material

• Footage from game.
• Lara Croft interviews.
• Chat rooms.

Graphics

• Quick moving camerawork... sped up.
• Match on action.
• Blue screen used.
• Straight cuts, no black outs.

The Music Bizz - Meatloaf

Type of Documentary
Observational Documentary
Themes

• Fame.
• Fourtune.
• Music.
• Popularity.

Narrative Structure

• Meatloaf starring in a film.
• Performing - everyone cheering; He's well known and liked.

Camera Work

• Shot of meatloaf performing.
• Shots of the film he starred in (Beauty and the Beast) for the length of time that they talk about.
• Establishing shot of the place the brit awards are held.
• Shots of headlines about meatloaf.
• Filming at the shoot of Beauty and the Beast, shows the film throughout this.

Mise-en-scene

• Big lights outside the brit awards.
• Meatloaf keeps in character even when hes not performing.
• CD linked with him character 'Rock and Roll', includes bats, motorbikes and dragons to symbolise Rock and Roll.

Sound

• Meatloafs music playing in the background of the interviews.
• Other Rock and Roll music used for the back grounds of the interviews.

Editing

• Zooms in and out on pictures and text from newspapers.
• Pictures of meatloaf and text behind people when they are getting interviewed.

Archive Material

• What ever the narrator says there is an image to back that up.
• Became one and a showed shots of this on websites and in shops.

Graphics

The Devil Made Me Do It

Type of documentary
Reflective Documentary
Themes

• good vs evil.
• crime.
• punishment.
• religion.
• violence.
• roll models.
• youth.
• music - the influence of it.

Narrative Structure

• Maralyn Manson being a bad influence to young people.
• Linear - follows a time line.
• epic narrative -> jumps from place to place

Types of Documentary

Poetic Documentary
Created in 1920's, used to tell the audience by showing the documentary in a different way. Not in order like other documentaries.

Expository Documentary
Speak directly to the viewer, mostly in the form of commentary and using voice overs and titles. Its a strong argument and point of view. Rhetorical and try and persaude the audienc. (Male voice over used)

Observational Documentary
1960's lightweight camera technologies came in. Observation of life. Fly on the wall effect.

Participatory Documentary
Begins in a expository condition and the film maker gets involved and participates.

Reflective Documentary
Abstract concept, questions reality, post modern concept.
Performative Documentary
Reflecting on your life and making a documentary on whats happend to you.

Evaluation

When filming our documentary we knew we wanted to film two different people, we wanted an age range between the two people to show the differences in opinions. The problem was we couldn't get an adult to interview so we had to use two teenagers. Both these opinions would of been similar compared to adult vs. teenager. we interviewed two of our friends, i believe these interviews went well as they were comfortable in front of the camera with people they knew. This made the atmosphere on the interview seem relaxed.

We filmed some cut aways too which linked in with the questions being asked. We tried to make these comical for the audience but also serious at the same time, so the documentary came out serious and well produced as well as funny. When editing these cut aways to the questions, it was difficult as we had to make the documentary flow and make sure they linked together in some way. I believe this was the hardest part of the editing process, as well as the editing of the interview.

The interview was quite hard to edit as there was a lot of laughing, but we needed to capture the serious parts of the interview and also edit out the questions.

prelim video

Researching Documentaries

Green Lantern Interview

I found this documentary on the 4OD website. It follows the codes and conventions of a documentary, since the interviewee is looking at the interviewer when answering questions, does this as if there isn't a camera there. Also the interviewee is on the right of the screen as the interview is using the 180 rule. The interview also follows the idea of the background re-enforcing the interview, so we know what the interview is about. It is filmed over his shoulder so we know she's interviewing him.

Richard Taylor Interview

This interview doesn't follow the basic codes and conventions of an interview. Interviews are usually shot from the medium close up or close up, where as this interview isn't shot in this way, its shot in a long shot. This interview is filmed with the eye line one third of the way down the screen.

The interviewee isn't shot over the shoulder of the interviewer. Also this shot is using the rule of thirds as he is positioned on the left side of the screen. The light is in front of the interviewee too, this follows the codes and conventions.