Sunday, 19 September 2010

Documentary analysis - The Music Biz: Marketing Meat Loaf

Type of Doucumentary:
  • Mixed

Themes:

  • Marketing of music
  • Creation of image
  • Power of the media to inflence audiance behaviour

Narrative Structure:

  • Non-linear
  • Closed
  • Single-strand

Camerawork:

  • Interviews: framed to left/right of screen, shot in medium close-up of close-up, eye line is 1/3 of the way down the screen
  • Variety of camera work, extreme close-ups of CD covers and magazine covers to keep the documentary flowing
  • High and low angles are used throughout
  • Point-of-view shot of someone walking into betting office
  • Hand-held camera is used to shoot behind -the-scenes footage of music video

Mise-en-scene:

  • Chromokey behind interviewee (blue of green screen)
  • Background of interview is an archive photo or archive material related to what the interview is about
  • Interview shot on set at video shoot

Sound:

  • Voiceover: Male speaking in standard English with a sarcastic twist but calm and clear
  • Meat Loaf song used under voice over

Editing:

  • Interviewees dissolove in and out
  • Intercutting/crosscutting between interviews to cunstruct the narrative
  • Chromokey stopped behind interviews so as not to distract

Archive Material:

  • Magazines, CDs, Newspaper headlines, News, Music videos, Top of the pops, Village People, Mr. Blobby
  • Used as chromokey background

Graphics:

  • Opening titles of magazines
  • Series logo - interviews
  • White - serif fornt - left/right of interviewee in capitals and italics

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