Documentary analysis: The Music Biz - The Marketing of Meatloaf

Type of Documentary
Mixed documentary - interviews, actuality and archive footage used.

Themes
Marketing of music
Creation of an image for a band or singer
Power of the media to influence audience behaviour

Narrative Structure
Non-linear
Closed
Single strand

Camerawork
Interviews: Framed left or right of screen, medium close up or close up, eyeline 3rd of the way down the screen (conventional)
Variety of camerawork: Extreme close ups of cd covers/magazines
Camera movement of still images - pans, zooms , rotation
High + Low angle used
POV shot of someone walking into a betting office
Handheld Camera

Mise-en-scene
Chromakey - (Blue or green screen)
Background - archive/actuality footage related to what the interview is talking about.

Sound
Voiceover: Sarcastic, Male, Standard english, Calm and clear delivery, completed sometimes by sound from actuality footage
Meatloafs music

Editing
Interviewees dissolve in and out on screen
Intercutting/crosscutting between interviews to construct the narrative
Video of meatloaf freezes and interviewee dissolves onto the screen - doesnt distract
Cut between filmong of music video and finished music video
Slow motion

Archive Material
Footage of awards ceremonies
Newspaper headlines
Footage of TV chat shows

Music videos - Meatloaf, Mr. Blobby, The Village People Magazine covers
CD covers
Still images/videos of performances

Graphics
Title sequence - intergrated moving images into magazine covers
Series logo, interviewee name and relevance to topic. white serif font