TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY: Mixed
THEMES: Devil worship, murder, crime, religion, culture, investigation, youth, society, power of the media.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE: * Open narrative structure > exploring motivation behind the structure
* Non - linear: gos back to the nuns funeral
* Single strand
CAMERA WORK: Interviews: close up, medium close up, from left or right of screen. Low angles on marilyn manson makes him appear visually powerful. Eye line third of the way down.
Interview with guy selling posters (not pre-arranged) Handheld cam.
Two Shot > Couple sat on the couch.
Point of view shot of police inspectore. Close up of the face
Lots of stock footage.. Churches, religious iconography, bell towers, crosses. Low/High angle (creativity in filming) Tracking, panning, zoom, crane. Establishing shots used to establish the location.
* Point of view shot of a fan in the crowd at mansons gigs.
* Birds eye view shot of the graveyard.
* Mansons press conferences - Observation - camera observing the press conference.
SOUND: Voiceover ( the glue that holds the narrative together ) >>Male narrator, standard english - very calm in his delivery. Other voices were also used to translat.
* Manson music
* Choral, religous music
* Sound effects used
Dialogue: " I spend a lot more time taling to the kids than they do "
EDITING: ( Straight cuts )
* When he is saying how boring it is there is stock footage to connote further and relate to what he is saying.
* Priest being called to the town. Dont see the actual interview at all, audio whilst he is driving along dark empty roads looking tired. This connotes that he has been effected by it.
* Use images to tell the story. I.E when describing a telephone conversation, they use a telephone.
* editing in sound effects on confessin to infer story.
* nuns heartbeat in background > goes faster , then slower, then to a stop, door closing, whispering, dog barking, banging, slamming, church bell, silence. Shows the death of the nun.
ARCHIVE MATERIAL:
* News footage of different events
* Italian TV talk show
* American TV coverage
* Websites
* Newspapers
* Still images > Self harming girls
* Various manson concerts.
GRAPHICS:
* White sans serif font > name of person + there relevance to the topic of documentary.
* Anchor the meaning .. Left or right of screen.. name is bigger than bottom line
* Title: Gothic and stylised,
* White text - close the narrative of trial (into sentancing) - Credits- scrolling conventionally upscreen.
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