Tuesday, 21 September 2010

Documentary analysis - Dispatches: The 9/11 Faker

Type of Documentary:
  • Mixed

Themes:

  • Disaster
  • Fraud
  • Investigation

Narrative Structure:

  • Linear
  • Closed
  • Single-strand

Camerawork:

  • Interviewee framed standard, left/right of screen, eyeline is 1/3 of the way down the screen
  • Other shots of interviewee used in interview aswell
  • Various establishing shots of New York City
  • Stock footage of the church were meeting take place
  • Meeting room shot out of focus
  • Close-up of chair in meeting room
  • Close-up of hands typing on a keyboard
  • Stock footage of keyboards
  • Different levels of zoom used in the same interview
  • Camera and interviewee placed slightly differently for each interview
  • Stock footage of Ground Zero
  • Zoom into face of Tania on a photograph
  • Extreme close-up of pencil sharpner and writing to add curiosity about what she is writing
  • Stock footage of various New York scenes
  • Extreme close-up of the glasses of the actress in the reconstruction
  • Different shot for each title before and after adverts
  • Interview shot in two-shot for husband and wife
  • Stock footage of tour centre
  • Camera moving very slightly during interview
  • Interview framed unconventionally, woman in centre of screen
  • Establishing shot of Barcelonian institution

Mise-en-scene:

  • Background of interview out of focus so as not distract from interviewee
  • Interview set in office
  • Interviewee in light but background in darkness
  • Reconstruction of Tania writing letter/e-mail
  • Unconventional mise-en-scene for interview, interviewee sitting bhind table but still conventional framing
  • Journalists interview set in library
  • Lots of stock footage of American flags, symbol of patriotism
  • Spanish man's interview set cafe

Sound:

  • Voice over: emotionless, solom, deep voice, used standard English
  • 'Sad' music used in various parts in the background
  • Various voices reading out letters quietly behind the voice over
  • Voice over artist reads out Tanias letters at different points of the documentary, artist is about Tanias age
  • Voice over artist reads out one of the e-mails in a n exited manor to fit feel of the e-mail
  • Various news reports in background behind voice over
  • Backgorund noise in cafe interview of public and coffee machine
  • Extract from Tanias writing read outby voice over artist then it is taken over by interviewee from the New York writers coalition

Editing:

  • Intercutting various shots of the interviews
  • Jump zoom in the interview
  • Fading from photo to photo
  • Cuts between the two interviewees during a story one of them is telling to show reaction shot

Archive Material:

  • Archive photos of victims and survivors
  • Archive photos of Tania
  • Extract from report of disastor - voice over
  • Archive footage taken from the news of Tania at Ground Zero
  • Archive footage of towers being pulled down behind titles
  • Archive footage of firefighters/rescuers
  • Zoom in on Tanias face in a photo
  • Archive footage of Ground Zero and people visiting
  • Archive footage of speech at memorial site and the meeting
  • Archive footage of Tania giving tour around Ground Zero site
  • Archive material from New York Times
  • Archive photos of Tania
  • Archive footage from memorial concert for hero
  • Archive footage from news reports and of newspapers
  • Archive footage of old news report about Tanias family

Graphics:

  • Font is sans-serif, white with black drop shadow for titles
  • Font for interviews is same as title

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