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