Tuesday 8 December 2009

Analsing a documenty

We choose our own documentaries to watch and analysis.
America’s toughest prisons

Type

Themes
Crimes, rehabilitation
Narrative structure
Single strand, non linear
Mise-en-scene
Prisoners, interviews with Sean brown, sells, many prisoners, guards, people playing card, interviews with prisoners and guards, canteen, guards checking on prisoners, working, lie detectors.
Camerawork
Close up, though the window, low angle, framed on the right or left, extreme close up, middle shot, long shot, over the shoulder, point of view, panning, tracking, long shot under a chair, establishing, high angle, low angle, never record their face, legs, body, neck, back, back of neck, only allowed to see two 4 prisoners faces.
Sound
Drums, sells doors being bang, metal clacking, voice over Standard English, male 30s, prisoner’s voices, telling their stories.
Editing
Fade out/in, montage, blurred faces only 4 prisoners to unblurred faces, cut, colour.
Archive material
Hearings, stories, guard filming prisoners transfer from place to place so nothing happens.
Graphics
Credits















Despatches: Middle Class and Jobless
Type: Mixed
Narrative: Single strand, None linear
Themes: Unemployment, Job centres
Mise- en- scene
People walking, buildings, interviews in homes and offices, job centre, shops, countryside, homes, charities, shopping centre, town, gym, beauty, home, washing car, delivering catalogs, employments, conversation between wife and husband at home with kids, car park,, someone , someone mowing learn .
Camerawork: Over the shoulder, Close up, Big close up, Over view shot, Framed left or right interviews, low angle, high angle, panning, establishing shot, tracking, extreme close up, Back of car, car behind, Long shot, Side of road.
Achieve material:
Filming of an interview.
Editing:
Cut, fade in/out
Blur
Sound:
Some questions not edited out, cars, children playing, pizza hut customers, birds, families playing.
Graphics:
Opening title, Peoples names and what they have to do with the documentary, credits.

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