- 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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