Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Genre analysis - Own documentary analysis - 9/11 the falling man.

Type of documentary -
Mixed with archive material and interviews.

This documenatry had reconstruction to show and intense the audience and give them an insight to the horrors of the event.

Themes - Death, tragedy, mystery and crime.
Narrative structure - Linear, closed and single strand.

Camera work

Tracking was using to emphise speech and what was being spoken was put on screen i.e. tracking shot of kitchen and dinner table full of uneaten food to show the impact of the event.

Zoom in and out was used alot to show audience a closer look at the evidence being shown and the tragedy.

An establishing was shown of nyc for about 3 minutes to show the importance of the city and to show importance of the twin towers.

The camera work in the interviews shown the interviewee filmed either left/right of screen in close up or medium close up with the eyeline a 3rd of the way down.

Hand held camera was shown when documentary shown archive footage.

Editing

The most common edit in this documentary was fade to black cut and montage of images.

Mise en scene -

On some of the interviews the interviewees face are covered by a dark shadow.

The mise en scene consisted mainly of archive footage and interviews.

The interview background was normal no chromokey i.e. one interview was filmed in a house and someone sitting on a couch.

Sound

Sad slow music with cello and piano sounds to show sadness and importance of the topic.

Voiceover- male around 30 yrs old - english accent which was delivered calm and clear.

Police sirens , shouting and crying where mostly the sounds coming form archive footage.

News speech also sometimes sounded over the archive footage.

Archive footage

Police and fireman running in fire

Newspapers to show images and main headlines of event

Picture of the falling man - this is the most important image as the documenatry was based around this.

Images of heros including fire, police and ambulance services.

Footage of the twin towers falling to the floor.

Footage of the news around the time of event.

Graphics

Clear, bold white font all in capitals to show who the people are in the interviews and the documentary title.

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