Friday, 24 September 2010

Research and Planning

The 9/11 Faker

* Archive footage of towers falling down
* Interviews: Conventional. Interviewee to left or right of screen. Eye line third of the way down.
> Backgrounds - Interviews in houses, offices. filmed in medium close up or close up.

* Extreme close ups of domestic items such as cups , chairs.

* Cuts between shots of around New York.

* Effects: All of these images are edited so that they have a 'blue tint' look to them.

> Busy traffic - lights out of focus
> Panning up and down buildings - Relative to the documentary topic as it is about towers.

* Arhive footage: Woman on news, video footage of her giving tours of 9/11 attack.

* Voiceover: Standard english, calm voice.

* Mixed Documentary

* Single Strand narrative

* Non - Linear narrative structure > Story reveals itself in parts, goes back to the beginning.

* Open narrative structure - shown by end dialogue  ''we will never know what she is planning next"

* Pan across photoframes with pictures of survivors on.

* Themes: Death, survival, loss, devastation, tragedy.



 











http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI1kTbRVgqQ
VIDEO OF DOCUMENTARY

No comments:

Post a Comment