GENRE ANALYSIS-Documentary Ananlysis (Public Enemy Number One- The Devil made me do it.)

Public Enemy Number One-The Devil made me do it.



Type of Documentary

• Expositary
• Included a voice over and images that match the documentary.
• Channel 4-After 10.

Theme

• Music, religion.

Narrative Structure

• Wide range of interviews-formal & informal
• Switches from case to case (murder of nun/Marilyn Manson)
• Narrator/voice of god
• Enigma code-using Marilyn Manson
• 13 minutes into the documentary, the enigma code begins to be answered.
• Voice over connects murder with Marilyn Manson.
• The end of the documentary is just involving Marilyn Manson.
• Conclusion-closed narrative to end documentary.

Camera Work

• Cutaways
• Filming various shots to demonstrate & give clues as to the murder of the nun
• Hand held camera work-frantic sense, makes the audience feel like they're there, e.g coming out of court waiting for the decision, and when the girl is going into the woods seems realistic and witch-like.
• Dark images
• Establishing shots to signify the start of a new segment.

Mise-en-scene

• Close up of reporter (Vatican, head and shoulder mid shot)
• Religious poster in background, and books behind him to show his interests.
• The mise-en-scene for the detective shows his importance as the surrounded area is formal.
• The friends of the girls who comitted the murder show mise-en-scene that demonstrates what Veronica and Melonia were like (smoking, informal attitude lounging and general carelessness) This shows they are not as important, and the interview is informal.

Sound

• Translater over Interviewee.
• Non-digetic music-sad, when in the church using symbolism, makes you empathise with the situation.
• Sound of heartbeat-dramatic
• Sound effects of the event
• Voice-over- male voice, formal tone to make it seem more serious (by using the male voice).

Editing

• Cutaways inbetween interviews to illustrate what he's talking about.
• Words such as "pray" would be displaying an image of a coffin, this makes the viewer feel more involved.

Archive Material

• Marilyn Manson-concert material

Graphics

• Black background with white writing and cross for T with the title.
• The graphics match the genre of music-rock/heavy metal.
• Same font and colours throughout-captions.