Sunday, 19 September 2010

documentary



The marketing of Meatloaf - 'The music biz'

Type of documentary: Mixed documentary (parts of it fly on the wall to make it more authentic)

Themes:
The music industry
Meatloaf - the comeback
The making of a music video
Marketing of a celebrity
Manipulation of audience
The channels you have to go through to be number one.

Camerawork:
Opening shot - low angle panning down to set the scene
Camera tracking to follow the event as it happens
Zooming in to certain objects/people to reiterate what they are talking about.
Hand held camera work used in the press areas
Lots of observation of the situation used.
Quick cuts of achieve material.
It flicks between the filing of the video archieve materials.
The filming of the interview is conventional - medium close up or close up or extreme close up used.
Point of view shot used in the bookies.
Panning and zooming is used a lot.


Mise-en- scene :
Brit awards - fans - celebrities- this shows it are a music documentary.
Still images used being interviewees to not take away for what they are saying.
Images changed to anchor the message.
Studio background used during the interview of meatloaf this shows he is a very hard working and driven man.
Chromacky is used a lot - blue and green screen.

Sound:
Narrator - male voice over using a dry and sarcastic tone. Use of Standard English.
Noise of fans screaming
Meatloaf’s music placed throughout
Negative sounds placed with the man talking about 'the bad out of hell two'
Music finishing off narrators sentence 'moving on up'
Tense music used when going up the chart.

Editing:
Cutaways to images - stills and moving
Interviewees faced in and out.
Text also faded in and out.
Text moving across the screen
Cut editing used.
Fast motion editing used out MTV
Editors also use slow motion
They have conventional editing during interviews for example no questions were asked.

Archive Material

Brit wards 1994
Still and moving images of Meatloaf.
TV show footage
Slow motion as the concert is being performed
Zooming in on a past article
Top of the pops footage
Montage of magazines and newspapers on Meatloaf - extreme close up.

Graphics :
Graphics to introduce who is talking- placed at bottom of the screen on the alternate side of the interviewee in white writing and sans sarif font.
The title ran across the screen
And it had rolling credits at the end.

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