Thursday, September 23, 2010

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


Type of Documentary
Mixed - mixture of interview, archive and actuality footage

Themes
Devil worship v religion
Crime - Murder investigation
Youth of today
Power of the media - Can the media influence individuals behaviour?

Narrative structure
Open Narrative structure
Non-linear
Single strand

Camerawork
Interviews : Low angle used particularly on Marilyn Manson, Close up/Medium close up, Rule of thirds, Positioned to the left or right of the screen, Guy selling posters interview is handheld camerawork which shows its not pre-arranged, Two shot interview.
Establishing shots used
POV - Fan in crowd at gigs + inspector in car
Stock footage - churches - religious iconography
Low/High angles used
Tracking - following police around station
Panning - Pans of churches
Zoom - still images + inanimate objects
Crane - showing cemetery from above
Handheld camerawork
Mansons press conference - observation

Mise-en-scene
Cap of police officer on desk shows power and status
Isolated nun - in room by herself
Filming man in graveyard fits the themes of the show
Lighting - Very dark throughout - During mansons intervioew half his face is lit and half is dark

Sound
Voiceover - Narrator, Male, Standard english, Calm in delivery, glue that holds the narrative together.
Translators voice is roughly the same age as the person on screen
Mansons music
Choral music - religious
Sound effects - audio dramatisation of nuns murder

Editing
Mainly cuts used throughout the documentary

Archive Material
News footage of various events
Italian TV talk show
Music videos
American news coverage of columbine massacre
Still images

Graphics
White sans serif fonts - Name of person and relevance to topic
Gothic font used for title
White text on black screen - lyrics, dates and locations

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