Louis Lepke

Type of Documentary

It was a mixed documentary as it had archive footage, interviews and a narrator.

Themes

the themes included how he joined a gang at 13, life of crime in new york, how he stayed in new york at 15 whil his mum moved to colarado, how he stayed in jailed for 3 years on and off, he killed little oggy.

Narrative Structure

At the start it talked about how he grew up, the middle was about him taking over all the labour rackets and how the police were starting to watch him, and the end was about how he was caught and executed.
It showed his old house, setting shots of old new york.

Camera Work

It showed the people being intervied with there eyeline 2 thirds up the screen and in the middle of the screen looking directly at the camera which is unusual.

Sound

Non-Diagetic narration and quiet flute music.

Archive Material

The archive material used were; radio broadcast warranting louis lepkes death, pictures of his murder victims, videos of him just standing also there were videos of his of his labour rackets, and there were videos of an electric chair which he was the first person to be executed that way.
interviews from ancestors of the people around lepke and historians.

Graphics

Small graphics were used to introduce interviewees.

the real Godfathers: Al Capone

Type of Documentary

It was a mixed documentary as it had archive footage, narration and interviews.

Themes

It was about the uprising of Al Capone, how he became untouchable, how he made all his money ilegaly selling alcohol and all the people he killed.

Narrative Structure

At the start it talks about how he grew up in the middle it talked about how he made his way up the ranks in the mafia and how he got away with murder also how he pushed alcohol, and eventualy how he was killed.

Camera Work

They had close ups of the people they were interviewing to show the expressions.
non-diagetic narration was used and the natural diagetic sound of gunfire from the archive footage.

Sound

non-diagetic narration was used and the natural diagetic sound of gunfire from the archive footage.

Archive Material

The archive material was majorly used in this documentary with many pictures of murder victims and Al Capone a video clip is of a Shooting.

Graphics

There were just small simple graphics used to introduce the interviewees.

Laura Croft that thing

It was a mixed documentary as it showed archive footage, had interviews and it had a narrator.

The themes included the transaction from game to film also how laura croft had sex apeal to males and females. It also talks about how it is around the time of girl power enthusiasts like the spice girls and how laura croft became a product.

At the start it talked about the game. The middle how they had to find the right person to play laura croft in the film. The end was about how people persieved her to be real. also at the end it showed how people envied her and what gamers were expecting from the film.

there was over shoulder shots used, this was the show the amount of people playing the laura croft tomb rader game.

they showed people playing the video game and the whole documentary was centred around the game. They also used a projector instead of a green screen which i feel made it look cheap.

there were sounds from the video game. e.g laura croft being out of breath and this was used to keep her erotic as she was a sex icon.

they showed the fan websites which showed the popularity of it.

They used archive material in the form of the nike advert that laura croft was in this showed her vast popularity.

there were simple graphics used to introduce the interviewees.

Marketing movies (BBC2) Educational Documentary

It was a mixed documantary as it had archive footage narration and interviews with experts.
The themes were about marketing films, persuasion and the importance of marketing to a specific audience.
At the start it was upbeat. In the middle they were talking about the importance of marketing. At the end they showed the 2 different trailers for the 2 different audiences.
there were close ups and static camera slots on the interviews. there wer location shots of london. there were lots of zooms into important people. there were lots of pans of merchandise and close ups of posters.
There were posters in the background of interviews. The cinema of the premier was shown and the premier itself.
there were non-diagetic music beds. There was also upbeat music throughout which was trying to persieve mouse hunt as a happy funny film.
Film footage of mouse hunt was used because that was the central film of the documentary and the lion king and the little mermaid were used because they made very succesful merchandise.
There were fast pace cuts used at the start to make it seem interesting. there were also relivant cut aways to the theme of the documentary at that time. But there were fades used and they were used very inefectivly almost ametuer like.
The graphics were overused and self explanitory the effective graphics were used to show who was being interviewed.

The music biz

It was a mixed documentary as there wer many things going on e.g Narration and archive footage.
the themes were about meat loaf, marketing, music and the christmas number 1 and how important it was to the artists.
It mainly talked about the music industry and how Meat loaf was trying to relaunch himself and thew sheer amount of money that was spent on him.
There were close ups of meat loaf showing he's the main person in the documentary . there were lots of zooms used to show significant things. there were also close ups used to show the stars who won grammies. and there was a pan to show how many important people there were.
All the interviews were in front of green walls so that they could show relivant pictures or videos in the background. and it showed how meat loafs make-up was done.
There was natural diagetic sound also there was non-diagetic sound e.g the narration. Also the village people and meat loafs tracks were played. there was a non-diagetic sound effect of a heart beat when they zoomed in to meat loafs poster to show that it was an important moment for meat loaf.
there was shot reverse shot used to show the power struggle between meat loaf and the director. there were also cut aways of archive footage.
Archive material that was shown was the award ceremonies like the grammies and both the village people and meat loafs music videos shown.
The graphics used were on a grey background and were used to introduce people.

The devil made me do it