16 And Pregnant

Type of Documentary

Themes

• Parental views
• Teenagers
• Babies
• Adoption
• Linear

Narrative Structure

• Open with background of them
• Different girls in the same situation
• Talking in normal places E.G. bedroom, car, kitchen.
• Views from friends
• Showing all the things she goes through.
• Skips through time with narration talking about whats happend

Camera Work

• Shots of where their from
• Close ups in serious situations
• Shots of the area
• Handheld
• Shots of parents and their views
• Following while in laybour

Mise-en-scene

• Talking in normal places - not set up.
• Filmed in their house.
• Outside shots - day and night

Sound

• Calming music
• No lyrics in music
• Pulse music while in laybour
• Slow songs

Editing

• Drawings of the people
• Book used throughout to show the story in this way too.
• Cuts of each person while their talking.
• Cutting time down from pregnacy

Archive Material

Graphics

• "2 weeks pregnant" - headings used to show how far in she is.
• Narration from the 16 year old girl
• Heading while having conversations
• Sub titles on some conversations that are hard to hear.

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.

Similarities in Documentaries

Similaries between:
'The Devil Made Me Do It'
'The Music Bizz: Meatloaf'
'Lara Croft'

1. All the interviews have an image to do with the documentary behind them.
2. Music links in with the theme of the documentary.
3. Rule of thirds used in the interviews.
4. Cutaways are used throughout an interview to give visual evidence to go with the speach.
5. All about fame in these 3 documentaries - all have fans.
6. Links with money; Maralyn Manson, Meatloaf and Lara Croft.
7. All three involve a famous person.
8. Headings when people are being interviewed.
9. Include the medias involvement at some point through-out.
10. Establishing shots of where things have happend.

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.