Analysing a Documentary - The Music Biz , The Marketing of Meatloaf

Type of Documentary
Mixed

Themes
The Marketing of music
Creation of image for band/singer
Power of the media to influence audience behaviour

Narrative Structure
Non Linear
Closed Narrative Structure
Single Strand

Camerawork
Interviews

• Framed left or right of the screen
• medium close up or close up
• eye line 3rd of the way down the screen
• conventional
• Meatloaf - 4 different interviews, location, record company, close up

Camerwork

• variety of camerawork
• extreme close up
• different shot types
• camera movement
• high and low angle
• point of view shot walking into betting office
• handheld camera - behind scene footage
• filming media instead of being the media

Mise-en-Scene
Chromakey - blue or green screen
background is archive or actuality footage related to what the interviewee is talking about
Anchors what interview is about

Sound
Voiceover - sarcastic, male, standard English, calm, clear delivery
Used actuality footage to complete the sentence - complete sarcastically
Meatloaf's music

Editing
Interviews dissolve in and out
Inter-cut between three interviews to tell the story
Cross-cutting between interviews to construct the narrative
Froze background as to not distract audience
Cut from behind the scenes to finish product to see what they filmed
Slow motion
*Flipped interview - Laziness

I used this image of the CD cover to relate to Meatloaf's music
Archive Material

• Magazine covers
• CD covers
• TV clips
• Music videos
• Chat shows
• Brit awards
• Grammy Awards
• Newspaper Headlines
• Review pages
• Village People
• Mr Blobby
• Top Of The Pops
• News footage
• Chromakey background

Graphics
Title sequence - moving title into magazine front covers
Series logo
Name of person, job titles, serif, white, left or right of screen, capitals, italics