Documentary Analysis: The Music Biz: The making of meatloaf.

Title: The Music Biz: The making of meatloaf

Channel: BBC2

Type of documentary: Mixed

Themes:
Music Marketing
Creation of image for a band or singer
Power of Media to influence audience behaviour

Narrative Structure:
Non Linear
closed
single strand

Camera Work:
Interview: Framed left to right, mid shot or close up, eye line 1/3 way down the screen.
Variety of camera work: Hand held
Point of view shot
crane
panning
low/high angle shot
mid shot
close up
extreme close up of CD covers, Magazines, reviews.

Four different meatloaf interviews

Mise-en-scene: Blue/green screen- used throughout interviews
archive or actuality footage related to what interviewee is talking about.

Sound:
Voiceover- Sarcastic
- english
-calm and clear delivery


sound is intwined with footage
voice over completed by acutality material
Meatloaf music


Editing:
interviews: Dissolve in and out
Interaction between three different to make the story work
cross cutting
flipped the interview to make background work
construct narrative
freeze interviews on screen to stop distractions
making of video- video finished
cross cutting
Slow motion.

Archive Material:
music video
magazine covers
CD covers
images
footage of award
posters
critics
news paper +reviews
Mr Blobby video
top of the pops
village people

These images are not from the documentary.

Graphics:
Magazine front cover in the begging sequence
Logo- Music Biz, Name and Job.
White serif, italics.
credits across bottom of the screen.