Genre Analysis - My New Brain

Type of documentary
Mixed

Narrative structure
Single strand
Linear
Open

Camerawork
Interviews:
Framed to the left or right of the screen
Eye line third of the way down the screen
Medium Close Up
Close Up
More camerawork
Over the shoulder
Point of view, speaking to the doctor
Tracking of the classes
Hand held in the hospital

Mise-en-scene
Hospital life shown against his home like a double life
Close up of daily activities showing the daily struggle

Sound
The interviews link together all telling the same story
Voiceover:
standard english
Male
Calm
Mood setting music

Editing
Cutting
Matching the interviews together so they all link and tell the same linear story

Archive Material
Old pictures
Pictures of the accident scene
Hospital Machines
Town

Graphics
White
Sans serif
Location and name