Thursday, 16 September 2010

Genre analysis - Public Enemy Number One - The Devil Made Me Do It


title of the documentary




Type Of Documentary


Mixed


Themes


Devil worship


Crime


Religion


Youth of today


Power of the media


Narrative Structure


Open narrative structure


Non – Linear


Single strand


Camerawork


Interviews


Medium close up


Close up


Framed to the left and right of the screen


Eye line third of the way down the screen


Low angle used on Manson’s interviews, gives him a sense of power


Man selling posters – handheld camera interview (not pre arranged)


Camera angles and movement


Point of view used from the point of view of the inspector


Close Up of faces


Stock footage of churches and religious iconography, filmed in low and angle and high angle


Tracking and panning is used particularly in Manson’s concerts.


Tracking of Manson walking through the city and going into McDonalds.


Crane shot of cemetery


Zoom of newspapers and pictures makes the shots more interesting


Mise-en-scene


Cap of officer shown big while the officer in the background.


Nun in dark alley shows isolation


Light is the most important particularly in the stock footage as it contains a dark, orange/deep blue glow


It is also used on Manson when he is getting interviewed, half is face is in the light and half is in the dark portraying, saint or sinner and a split personality


Sound


Voiceover:


Male


Standard English


Very calm


Holds the narrative together


Mansons music and orchestral music:


Show the main themes of the program


The attack:


Sound effects


Heartbeats


Footsteps


Hitting


Stabbing


Editing


Cut shots


Choral music played over footage of Manson – Juxtaposition


During the whole interview of the priest the priest is never seen talking just shows slow motion footage of him driving


Archive Material


News footage


Nuns funeral footage


Police investigation footage


Talk show


Music videos of Manson.


Pictures and newspapers


Graphics


White sans serif font with name and relation to the trial of each interviewee


Main titles are black and gothic style and feature a cross.


White text at the end explaining what happened to the girls, text is the same as used throughout the programme.

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