Monday, 20 September 2010

Genre Analysis-Documentary Analysis- I can't stop stealing

BBC three documentary
Type of Documentary


  • Expository but it is an informal type of expository.


Themes


  • A bad Habit that needs to be stopped


Narrative structure


  • 3 ordinary people have the problem of shop lifting and they want to sort the problem out, Shows the 3 different people and how they get away with it and what they get out of it by doing it, but by the end they are trying hard to overcome this habit.


Camerawork


  • Close-up of the things that have been stolen.
  • Camera on a dolly moving down and isle looking at all of the items, then cutting to a close-up of a trolley wheel as its moving (the camera is attached to the wheel)
  • Two-shot of the managers of Home Bargain talking about the cctv footage of shop lifters.


Mise-en-scene


  • When the woman is asked how she feels about it, the clothes she has shoplifted are behind her.


Sound


  • Woman voice-over ('Voice of God') makes the documentary seem more informal.
  • non-diegetic music in the background at the beginning and whilst the woman is talking.


Editing


  • Quick cuts at the beginning to show the cctv footage and each person featured in the documentary.
  • Filming the screen of the cctv footage whilst the two men point of the shoplifters.


Archive material


  • CCTV footage.


Graphics


  • Black background with white pale writing.


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