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