Thursday, 23 September 2010

Research and Planning

TITLE  OF PROGRAMME: BBC2 Series: The Music Bizz - The marketing of Meatloaf.


TYPE OF DOCUMENTRY: Mixed


THEMES: Marketing of music, creation of image, power of the media to influence audiences behaviour.


NARRATIVE STRUCTURE:

* Non - Linear
* Closed narrative
* Single strand narrative


CAMERA WORK:
Conventional interview camera wor: framed to the left or right of screen. Medium close up or close up eyeline third of the way down.
> Variety of camera work - different shot types
* Extreme close ups of CD front covers . * Camera movement , panning.
* Handheld camera - behind the scenes footage. > MEatload has four different interviews which have been cut between. Filming te media rather than being a part of the media.

MISE-EN-SCENE:
* Chromake (blue or greenscreen)
- Background of chromake is archive or actuality footage which is related to what the interviewee is talking about.


SOUND:
Voiceover > Sarcastic, male, standard english, scottish accent. Calm and clear delivery. * Became intertwined with the footage.

- Meatloafs music video is used over some voiceovers and other footage.


EDITING:

- Interviewees dissolve in and out
- Montage on chromake
- Cut through the 3 interviews with no voiceover (cross cut) which constructed the narrative.
Froze video on interview when it was o chromake.
- cross cutting between behind the scenes footage and of the music video.


ARCHIVE MATERIAL:

  • Magazine CD covers
  • TV Clips
  • Music videos
  • Hosts on chat shows
  • Award Ceremony
  • Newspaper headlines
  • Magazine footage
  • Chart run down of TOTP
  • Americana nd UK news
  • Used partly as chromake.
GRAPHICS:

Magazine background with artists speaking in the image.
* Interviews: typography to the left or right of screen in white serif font used captial letters and italics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GNhdQRbXhc

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