Thursday 23 September 2010

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

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