Sunday, 12 September 2010

Documentary analysis - Public Enemy Number One: The Devil Made Me Do It

Type of documentary
  • Mixed documentary

Themes

  • Devil Worship
  • Crime (murder)
  • Religion
  • Youth of today
  • Power of the media - can the media influence an individuals behaviour?

Narrative structure

  • Open narrative
  • Non-linear

Camerawork

  • Interviews all shot in medium close-up or close-up and framed to the left or right of screen. The eye-line of the interviewee is a 3rd of the way down the screen.
  • The man selling the posters was shot with a hand-held camera which shows that the interview was not pre-arranged.
  • Point-of-view of the policeman when he is walking into the building.
  • Stock Footage - churches, religious iconography, crosses, christ, bell towers etc.
  • Tracking, panning, zoom, crane.
  • Zoom on innanimate object.
  • Establishing shots of buildings etc.
  • Close-up of reflection.
  • Point-of-view of a fan in the crowd.

Mise-en-scene

  • Cap of police officer in foreground, officer in background.
  • Isolated nun.
  • Man in graveyard.
  • Lighting - dark throughout.
  • Stock footage is mystical.
  • Lighting on Marylin Mansons face is light in one side dark on other - good/bad.

Sound

  • Voice over - male, standard English, Scottish, calm, (glue that holds the narrative together).
  • Translators - changed voices to fit the person on screen.
  • Music - religious music, Marylin Mansons music, sound effects.

Editing

  • Cut
  • Don't see interview, just shots of priest in car.

Archive material

  • News footage
  • Nuns funeral
  • Police
  • Talk show
  • Marylin Mansons videos
  • Columbine
  • Websites
  • Girls with 'scars'
Graphics
  • Names of interviewees and their occupation/relevance of the topic. Font is white sans-serif with the top line being bigger and they anchor the relevence of the person to the topic.
  • Ttile was gothic and styleized with relevence to the topic.
  • White text closed the narrative of trial and anchored the audio.
  • Credits were white sans-serif font.
  • Translations of the ltrics.
  • Dates + times of incidents.





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