The Truth about Child Marriages

Independent documentary

Type of documentary:
Themes:

•  Celebrations
• Underage Marriages
• Violence
• Middle class
• Social Changes
• Working Class
• Vulnerability

Narrative Structure:

• Linear

Camera Work:

• Rule of thirds 
• Extreme close up of details on face
• Close up of girl on computer
• Over shoulder looking at family pictures
• Birds eye view of town
• Establishing shot of Bangladesh

Mise-en-scene:

• Countryside
• Small village (Shanty)
• India

Sound:

• Indian religious background music
• Woman voice over
• Up beat music

Editing:

• Cutaways of statistics of marriages over the world
• Cutaway of map of the world

Archive material:

• Footage of child wedding
• Interview with groom at wedding
• Interview of a child getting beaten up by her husband
• Footage of children playing
• Footage to show the differences between marriages in middle and working class.

Graphics:

• White titles of who is talking in interview
• Black background
• White title "The Truth about Child Marriages"
• Subtitles of translations
• Tables of statistics

An investigation into 9/11

Themes:

• Terrorism
• Crime
• Justice
• Reality
• Politics

Narrative Structure:

• Linear

Camerawork:

• Hand held
• Establishing shot of Twin Towers
• Medium close-ups in interviews
• Pan ups of Towers
• Pan downs of Towers

Mise-en-scene:

• Town Centre
• America
• Twin Towers

Sound:

• Real footage recordings of the crash of the plane
• Repeatings of the word 'Justice'
• Bomb explosion
• Crying
• Screaming
• Sirens
• Up beat music, illustrating tension

Editing:

• Cutaways of images
• Flashbacks
• Before and after pictures
• Slow motion as plane hits the towers

Graphics:

• White Writing
• Black Background
• 3D images of towers



Archive Material:

• News footage
• Recordings of the Towers being destroyed   
• Press conferences with the survivers        

Crystal Meth epidemic

Type of documtary:

Themes:

• Drugs
• Peer pressure
• Addicts
• Community
• Smuggling of drugs

Narrative Structure:

• Linear

Camera Work:

• Birds eye view of the town
• Extreme cloe up of police badge
• Over shoulder in car to show out the front window
• Hand held
• Rule of thirds
• Zooms in and out of laptop to show the brain
• Worms eye view of sky
• Night vision

Mise-en-scene:

• Police office
• Drug dealers home
• Busy main roads
• User of crystal meth in prison

Sound:

• Police sirens
• Male Narrator
• Dialogue in interviews (no accents)
• Upbeat music
• Slow music

Editing:

• Before and after pictures of crystal meth users
• Cutaways of maps from 1992, 1997 and 2003.
• Blured out faces and flashing lights
• Fat motion of pills and packets in shops

Archive Material:

• Footage of interviews
• Footage of people being arrested
• Footage of a childs house where she grew up with meth addicts
• Footage of a lecture abotu side effetcs of the drug
• Footage of ruined houses and explosions

Graphics:

• Back titles
• Red background
• Tables of statistics

The music biz, call on Meat Loaf.

Type of documtary:

Themes:

• Violence
• Religion
• Worshiping the devil
• Marilyn Manson
• Influences
• Crime and Punishment
• God vs Evil
• Propaganda
• Music
• Fame

Narrative Structure:

• Linea
• Open ended (no complete answer at the end of the documentary)

Camera Work:

• Establishing shot of meatloaf in concert
• Close up of meatloafs long detailed finger nails
• Extreme close up of meatloafs make up
• Establishing shot of HMV to show where the albums were sold
• Cutaways
• Framing to left or right
• Medium close up/ close up during interviews
• Pan shot of press conference

Mise-en-scene:

• Blue screen
• Woods
• Concert
• Office
• Recording studio

Sound:

• Talking
• Meatloafs songs playing in the background
• Dialogue- Music and buisness
• Narrator is a male voice

Editing:

• Cutaways are used throughout
• Slow motion shots of band
• Slow motion of fans reactions

Archive Material:

• Footage of previous concerts
• Footage of filming the music videa
• Footage of oress conferences
• Newspaper articles
• Footage of Brit awards

Graphics:

• Red and white colouring is used throughout the documentary
• Titles at the bottom of the screen to show who the interviewee is
• Still imagery when there is an interview

The Devil made me do it.

Type of documtary:

Themes:

• Devil Worshop vs Religion
• Marilyn Manson
• Crime
• Youth
• Violence
• Propaganda
• Influences through music

Narrative Structure:

• Non-linear (Doesnt follow chronological events from the girls being caught)
• Linear- (has evidence of flasbacks)

Camera Work:

• Medium close up of interviews from left to right
• Establishing shots of crowd at the concert to show how many people are influenced by him
• Free hand
• Low angle of Manson (signify power)
• Slow pan of twon to show it is a normal town

Mise-en-scene:

• Manson fans with make up relating to him
• Symbolic imagery
• Interview of teenagers sat in a room smoking
• Interview at a police station sat at desks

Sound:

• Repeatedly plays Marilyn Mansons songs
• Voice over of narrator (male)
• Religous music played when at church in a funeral with nuns

Editing:

• Cuts
• Montage

Archive Material:

• News footage
• Recordings from time of murder
• Press conference of Marilyn Manson when asked about the murder and his influences

Graphics:

• Lyrics of Mansons songs
• Title is Gothic
• Text to show what happened to the girls after the documentary

Lara Croft- That thing.

Type of documtary-

Themes:

• Violence
• Feminism
• Representation of women
• Role model
• Virtual vs Reality

Narrative Structure:

• Present of narrator
• Evolution
• Non-linear

Camera work:

• Interviews, mainly medium close up
• Extreme close up of Angelina Jolie
• Shot frames up game footage then zooms out and shows the consumer
• Zooms in on magazines
• Pans across people playing the game

Mise-en-scene:

• Boys are all playing together
• Backgrounds were always relevant
• Shows Computers and mouse repeatedly
• Interviews are always from left to right

Sound:

• Relevant synchronized sounds during the game
• Laras Voice
• Male voice over (Narrator)
• Lara Croft is related to Madonna and one of her songs was played in the background to show relevance

Editing:

• Fast motion of the computers
• Match on action
• Subtitles and images
• Blured the backgroun of game to concentrate on interviews
• Blue screen
• Cuts all the way through
• Created montage (fantasy from cartoon and person)

Archive material:

• Showed realism of the character (Angelina Jolie)
• Footage o front covers of magazines
• Game footage
• Film footage
• Adverts
• Websites

Graphics:

• The game
• Writing
• Name of interviewee is shown in big font at the bottom of the screen during interviews.

Documentary Analysis

There are six diferrent types of documentaries;

• Poetic Documentaries- They first came around in the 1920's. The poetic mode organized images of the material world in terms of time and space. People appeared in these films as entities that are found in the material world. The 'real world; was broken up into fragments and aesthetically reconstituted using film form.
• Expository Documentaries-This type of documentary hardly uses images as it isnt the most important thing. These films try to persuade the viewer by using strong voice over clips, (may use a male voice so it sounds objective.) These commentaries use voiceovers or titles proposing a strong argument and point of view.
• Observational Documentaries- These first appeared in the 1960's, they had technological developments so they could include lightweight cameras and portable sound recording for synchronized sounds. These films aimed at individual human character in ordinary life situations.
• Participatory Documentaries- This type of film made pushed away the narrator making them apart of the film seeing how the situation was affecrted or altered by their prescense however, they still have potential power and control of events.
• Reflexive Documentaries- This type of documentary questions the authencity of documentary in general. It is the most self-concious  and is highly skeptical of realism. It may use stratergies to jar the viewer in, to show what we are seeing and how we see it.
• Performative Documentaries- These documentaries are strongly emotional, personal, unconventional and maybe poetic. It may include a list of events designed to make us experience what it might be like for us to posses a certain specific perspective on the world that is not our own. The sub-genre may also aim at specific groups to 'speak about themselves.'