Micheal Jackson and Bubbles: The Untold Story

Type:
Mixed

Themes:

• Friendship


• Companionship

Narrative Structure:

• Closed


• Non - Linear


• Single strand
  

Camerawork:

• Interview: framed ot left or right of the screen, medium close - up or close - up, the eyeline is a 1/3 way down the screen.


• BIV and tracking of / through Neverland.


• Low shot a monkeys in the tree which shows that they are powerful.


• Close - up of Bubbles the monkey in a cage which is being filmed by a handheld camera and and this shows upset and distress.


• Extreme close - up of La Toya's face which shows that she is upset.


• Long shot of the car La Toya is in.


• Two shot of Patti and La Toya in the grass.


• POV shot from Bubbles eye's looking at La Toya.


• Long shot of La Toya and Bubbles

Mise - en - scene:

• The nature reserve were Bubbles now lives.


• The interview backgrounds tell us what sort of person they are and what sort of things they do.


• Dr Jane Goddall has the background of monkey's which conotes that she works with monkey's and she works now with Bubbles.
  

Sound:

• Main sound is Micheal Jackson's music.


• Voiceover: Male, 30 years old, American.


• There are sound effects are of a camera shutter.


• The music complements the mood.
  

Editing:

• Cuts.


• The interviewee speaks about a topic and it will cut to a video clip that is related to what the interviewee has just said.

Archive Material:

• Music Videos.


• Photographs.


• Home Videos.


• Newspaper.


• Chat shows.


• Magazines.


• News Footage.
  

Graphics:

• Font:

Extrodinary People - Haley the 96 year old school

Type:

• Mixed
  

Themes:

• School


• Size


• Loneliness


• Illness
  

Narrative Structure:

• Closed


• Non - Linear


• Single Strand
  

Camerawork:

• Interview: Framed left or right of the screen, medium close - up or close - up and eye line 1/3 way down the screen.


• Tracking shot of Haley on a pier.


• Close - up of Haley.


• Extreme close - up.


• Panning shot of Haley walking through the airport.


• Handheld family camera inside the hospital.


• Long and wide shot of Boston.
  

Mise - en - scene:

• Haley's school


• Haley's House


• Airport


• Boston


• Hospital


• All of the places have a different meaning but they all conote the documentary and what is happening at the exact moment.
  

Sound:

• Voiceover: Male, 30 years old, standard English, clear voice.


• Hapy Music.


• Noises of Boston.


• Noises of in a hospital e.g. the hospital machines.

Editing:

• Cuts


• The interview runs over the shots rather than actaully seeing the interview.

Archive Material:

• Pictures from every episode at the right start of the documentary.


• Clips of Haley playing.

Graphics:

• Font: Basic, White, Simple.

TV Scheduling - 3 main terms

Inheritance - scheduling a programme after a popular programme in the hope that it will inherit some of the audience from the popular programme.

Pre - echo - scheduling a programme before a popular programme in hope that the audience will tune in before the end of the programme and catch the end and decide to watch the whole episode next time it is on.

Hammocking - scheduling a programme between two popular programmes to get some audience from both of the popular programme.

TV Scheduling

The schedules for each day can be broken down into clear segments. How would you catergorise these segments?

1. Breakfast TV
2. Day time TV
3. Children TV
4. Family TV
5. Adult / Evening TV

Who are the target audience for these segments?

1. Children / Teenagers
2. Adults / Elderly
3. Children
4. Families
5. Adults / Elderly

What would you say are the most popular genres on television?

• Soap operas
• Sitcoms
• Talk shows
• Game shows
• Films

Who is the target audience of each terrestial channel?

• BBC 1 = everyone / anyone
• BBC 2 = educated audience - children in the morning
• ITV 1 = everyone / anyone
• Channel 4 = young adults + adults + teenagers
• Five = everyone / anyone

Roughly, what percentage of each channel's schedules is taken up with repeats? Why do you think this is?

• To fill up the schedule.
• Its cheap.
• Producers save money.

Which channels have more imported programmes in their schedules? Why do you think this might be?

• Channel 4 + Five - Have not got as much money so it is cheaper to import.
• Cheaper to import a programme rather than make a new programme.

What do you understand by the term 'the watershed' and where does this occur in the schedules?

• It is 9 O'clock.
• Watershed - getting rid of chidren so that they can play more adult programmes.

Codes and Conventions of the Documentary Genre

Narrative, Editing, Sound, Camerawork, Archive Material, Mise - en - scene, Graphics

• Single strand
• Cut is the most common edit.
• Editing techniques may be used on actuality footage and archive material.
• Well paced.
• Voiceover - hold the narrative together.
• Voiceover - gender is sometimes relevant depending on the topic.
• Voiceover - relevant age to the topic.
• Voiceover - standard english.
• Relevant music.
• Creative and varied camerawork.
• Conventional framing on interviews.
• Camera usually on a tripod.
• Interviewee sits down and on a stable chair.
• Still images etc. zoom in or out.
• Variety of relevant material.
• If chromakey is used it shouldn't detract from the interview.
• Graphics are used to anchor who the person is and what they do and when or where something has happened / happening.

That Thing - Lara Croft

Type

• Mixed.

Theme:

• Power of the media.


• Representation of women.

Narrative Structure

• Closed.


• Non - Linear.


• Single strand.

Camerawork

• Interviews - framed left or right of screen, extreme close - up, medium close - up or close - up, eyes 1/3 way down.


• High and Low angles.


• Panning shot of sheet for competition.


• Tracking - when people are all on the computers.


• Titled frame shots.

Mise - en - scene

• CHROMAKEY (blue or green screen)


• Chromakey background - the game.


• Chromakey background were out of focus.


• Front projection over some people's faces.

Sound

• Voiceover - male, 20s, a person who would play the game.


• Sound of game - gun fire.


• Music of game.


• Madonna's track - interviewee mentioned Madonna.

Editing

• Cutting.


• Tinted screen of guy interviewee in a fake computer screen - he was the creator / inventor of the game.


• Fast motion - camera going in cybercafe.
  
  

Archive Material

• Clips of Lara Croft tomb raider games and movie.


• Websites about Lara Croft.


• Angelina Jolie interview.
  

Graphics

• Name and job of the interviewees.


• What the person does within the game - it says 'that thing' at the end of every graphic which is saying that it is that thing that the person does within the game e.g. creator / producer.


• Basic, simple, sanserif, white font.

The Music Biz - The Marketing of Meatloaf

Type of documentary:

• Mixed

Themes:

• Power of media to influence audience behaviour


• Creation of image for a band or singer


• Marketing of music
  

Narrative Structure:

• Non - Linear


• Closed


• Single strand

Camerawork:

• Interviews - framed to left or right of screen, medium close - up or close - up and eyeline 1/3 way down screen (conventional).


• Variety of camework.


• Different shot types.


• Camera movement.


• High and Low angle used.


• POV shot of someone walking into a betting office.


• Handheld camera - behind the scenes of music video.


• Two shots of meatloaf and produce.

Mise - en - scene:

• CHROMAKEY (blue of green screen).


• Background of chromakey is archive, actiality footage related to the interview that is happening.
  

Sound:

• Voiceover - Sarcastic, Male, standard english, calm and clear delivery - intertwined with the footage.


• Meatloaf's music.

Editing:

• Intervies dissolve in and out.


• Intercutting / crosscutting between interviews to construct the narrative.


• They freeze the background when the interview fades in so that people are not distracted by the background.


• Crosscut - behind the scenes video and actual video.


• BAD EDITING - Just flipped a guy over makes it look like two interviews even though it is actually just one.

Archive Material:

• Magazine covers.


• CD covers.


• Music videos.


• Clips of him performing.


• TV shows.


• Award shows.


• Mr Blobby music video.


• Village people music video.


• Newspapers


• News reports.


• Chromakey background.
  

Graphics:

• Title of documentary.


• Series logo.


• Name of person on screen.


• Jobs of person on screen.


• What the person is to the documentary topic.


• Simple, white, serif, italic font.

Public enemy number one - The devil made me do it

Type of documentary:

• Mixed

Themes :

• Power of the media


• Devil Worship Vs Religion


• Crime ~ murder ~ investigation
  
• Youth of today

Narrative Structure:

• Open
• Non - Linear
• Single Strand
  

Camerawork:

Interviews - Close up - of reflections of dad, low angle - of Marilyn Manson, medium close - up, framed left or right and the eyeline is 1/3 way down.

Guy seliing posters - hand held camerwork - (not prearranged)

Two shot

Over the shoulder and point of view of inspector.

Stock footage - churches, religious iconography, graveyards, bell towers + church steeples - Low / High Angle.

Tracking - police inspector going upstairs + Manson walking through Rome, panning, zoom - still images + inanitmate answers, crane - stock footage - of the cemetery.

Birds eye view - birds eye view.

Estabilishing shots

POV - point of view of fan on the crowd at the gig.

Manson's press conference - observation - it creates the meaning that the documentary maker is seperate from the italian press.

Mise - en - scene:

• Cap of the police officer


• Isolated nun


• Filiming guy in graveyard putting flowers down


• Lighting: Alot of the shots of dark but they have bright orangey light which works well.


• In interview half his face is light and half is face is ddrak which is like good and evil which is his personality.
  

Sound: Voiceovers - glue thats holds narrative together.

• Narrator - male - standard english - very calm in delivery.


• Translator - they were roughly the same age, gender as the person on the screen speaking in different languages.


• Manson's Music.


• Holy / Gossipel - religious music.


• Sound effects


• Manson's saying - "I spend alot more time talking to their kids than they do".

Editing:

• Cut


• Don't see interview at all / guy(priest) in the car


• JUXTAPOSTION - they used the opposite music for the scene. e.g. clips of people arriving for Manson's gig but the music track being played in the background is holy/gosspel.


• Putting two opposites together - Disciples of Satin.

Archive material:

• Manson's music videos


• Italian Show


• Still images


• Newspapers


• News footage


• Nun's funeral

Graphics:

• People's name were in simple text.


• People's relevant to the doucmentary.


• Places.


• Dates.


• Title used a crucifice instead of the letter 't'.


• Credits.


• Manson's lyrics during his gigs.

General Analysis - Construction of reality

Gatekeeping - Producer of a documentary selects and rejects facts and opinions which they want or don't want.

The selection and rejection of information / content for inclusion in a media text.

EDITING PROCESS - is where gatekeeping happens in the documentary.

Voiceover - the voice of god and it is called that because the person is never seen.


PROPAGANDA

General Analysis - Structure of documentaries

Narrative structure -

Open - loose ends which are not tied up at the end. e.g. Tv - soap operas.

Vs

Closed - there is a definite conclusion to the narrative.


Linear - Follows chronological order.

Vs

Non - linear - Things are not in time order. e.g. flashback or flashforward.


Circular - Start and end point are the same. e.g. Film - Prince of Persia, the sands of time.


Visuals - Television is a visual medium.

The programme needs to be visually stimulating. It has to be to maintain the audiences interests.

For example, Archive material, street scenes, open countryside, close ups of faces = Stock Footage.


Interviews - An inteview can be held anywhere, but the setting (mise - en - scene) does affect the meaning of the documentary.

VOX POP (vox populis) = voice of the people.

When a person goes out on a street and just grabs different people and asks them the same question and then chooses which peoples / answers they actually use.

General Analysis - Different types of documentary

Fully Narrated - A voiceover is used to convey the exposition.

The voiceover is used to make sense of the visuals and dominates their meaning, e.g. natural history documentaries.

Fly on the wall - Draws on the french film movement, cinema verite (truth).

The camera is unseen or ignored and simply records real events as they unfold.

Mixed - This is a combination of an interview, observation, actuality and archive material and narration to advance the argument / narrative.

Self - reflexive - When the subjects of the documentary acknowledge the presence of the camera and often speaks directly to the programme maker.

Docudrama - Re - enactment of events.

Docusoap - Documentary and soap opera.

A group of central protagonists.

General Analysis - Features of documentaries

Observation - The programme makers pretend that the camera is unseen or ignored by the people taking part in the events.

Audience is positioned like an eye witness observing what is happening in the documentary.

Interview - This is the most important part in a documentary because documentaries rely on the interview.

Dramatisation - All documentaries use a sense of drama through the observation element or dramatic reconstruction.

Mise - en - scene - Put in the picture.

Documentary makers carefully contrast shots.

Exposition - The line of argument in a documentary. It is what the documentary is "saying".

General Analysis - Documentary

The purpose of the documentary is to DOCUMENT, that is to report, with evidence, something that has actually happened. It can show this by using actuality footage ('real' footage of actual events) or reconstruction. It can use a narrators voiceover to anchor the meaning or rely on the participants themselves with perhaps the occasional interjection by the narrator.

John Grierson - General Post Office Film Unit, in 1930s.

Definied documentary as: "the creative treatment of actuality (reality) ".

General Analysis

General Analysis