Analysis of 'Abbey and Riley'

Independent analysis of the episode 'Abby and Riley' from series three 'Underage and Pregnant

Type of Documentary
Mixed

Themes
Struggles of teenage Mothers, The Baby vs the disease

Graphics
Ending credits, Graphics are avoided as the Narrator/Voice over tells us who the people being interviewed are

Independant analysis of 'My big fat Gypsy wedding' 'Boys will be boys'

Big fat gypsy wedding pres

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Lara Croft BBC 2 from the series 'That Thing'

Type of Documentary
Mixed

Themes
Virtual vs Reality, Audience manipulation, feminism, representation of women

Narrative structure
Single strand, Closed, Non-linear- chopped interviews

Sound used in 'Lara Croft'

Graphics for 'Lara Croft'

Mise-En-Scene and Archive material of Lara Croft

Mise en scene and archive material for the programme 'Lara Croft' from the series 'That thing' on Prezi

Camerawork used for Lara Croft presentation

 

The music Biz The Marketing of Meatloaf

The second documentary we looked at was from the series 'The Music Biz' episode- the marketing of meatloaf

Type of Documentary
 Mixed, contains various interviews, archive material, and mise-en-scene

Themes
How to make the career of an artist
Audience manipulation
Power of the Media
Old vs Young

Narrative structure
Non-linear
Single strand
Closed

Graphics
Interviewees name and relevance to topic, end credits, newspaper headlines and quotes

Sound, Editing, and Mise-en-scene of 'The Marketing of Meat loaf'

Meatloaf presentation

Archive Material

The Music Biz series- The marketing of Meatloaf on Prezi

Camera work used in 'The Marketing of Meat loaf'

The Devil Made me do it (Channel 4) Series Public Enemy Number one

Type of Documentary- Mixed, contains Archive Material interviews etc

Themes- Rebellion, Good vs Evil, Binary opposition, Religion vs Devil, worship, lack of communication between teens and parents, disaffected youth and problems in society, power of the Media to influence people behaviour

Narrative Structure- Open, ultimate questions left unanswered, non-linear, single strand,

Archive material

In this Wordle contains the Archive Material used in the making of the programme of 'The Devil Made me do it'

Editing

Title sequence for the series, like the editing below

Dissolved, cutting because you don't notice it as a documentaries primary purpose is the story

Fade to black to create a new passage of time





Sound

The opening of this extract from the documentary shows a reconstruction of the murder with a hearbeat sound being played in the background to convey the adrenaline the girls would of had during the time of the murder.
-One point Religious church music can be heard
-Narration, neutral voice over in standard English
-Translation,
-Actors reading the girls diarys

The Graphics, Mise-en-scene, and Camera work of 'The Devil made me do it'

The graphics, mise-en-scene, and camera work of 'The Devil made me do it' on Prezi

Research for Documentary

In the next few lessons, we aim to research the following for our documentary

- Content typical of a Scouse Documentary

- Finding contacts for interviewees that are relevant to the topic

- Looking at relevant archive material, such as the Harry Enfield Scouse sketches, and images that show Scousers in some way