Old Documentary Analysis

Documentary Analysis

Student name: Rebecca Challis                       

Documentary title, director, year: 7 Up (1964)

                                                                         

Mise-en-Scene:

Continuity;  diegesis; location, set, studio/set design; costume; properties; ambient lighting; artificial lighting; production design period/era; colour design.

• About 14 different kids who all come from different environments and have different upbringing come and the camera’s follow them around and show you what they do day-to-day.
• Set in the UK.
• Artificial lighting is used.
• The boys were in smart shirts and ties and the girls is skirts and dresses (well dressed)
• Set in school
• Imagination is important they imagine things were now we don’t have to imagine we can go and buy them

Camera Angle, Shot, Movement and Position:

Establishing shot; master shot; close-up (and variations); long shot; wide shot; two-shot; high angle; low angle; aerial shot; point of view; pan; crane; tilt; track; dolly; zoom/reverse zoom; framing; composition; hand-held; steadicam.

• Hand-held you can see when the boy is running you get the effect as you feel like your running with him or as him.
• Medium angle (you can see the emotion on their faces)
• Pan (on the playground)
• Zoom/reverse zoom

Editing:

Sound and vision editing – continunity-discontinuity-montage editing; transitions (cut; fade; wipe; dissolve); long/short takes; superimpose; slow/fast motion; synchronous/asynchronous, soundtrack; theme; tune; incidental music; sound effects; ambient sound; narration; dialogue; voiceover; mode of address/direct address; diegetic/non-diegetic; contrapuntual.

·       Ambient sound (Voiceover)

·       Soundtrack

·       Diegetic sound

·       Transitions (cut)

·       Continuity editing

Special Effects:

Graphics; captions; computer generated images (CGI); animation; pyrotechnics; stunts; models; back projection.

• Very basic no special effects are used

Characterisation and narrative:

Protagonist/antagonist; role; linear/non-linear; equilibrium/disequilibrium; single-strand/multi-strand; point of view; narration.

• Linear
• Multi-strand (14 children)

Representation:

Positive/negative; accurate/inaccurate; balanced/imbalanced; stereotypes; true/untrue  

·       Positive – it shows how different it was to be 7 years old in the early 1960’s compared to the early 2000’s where kids are growing up surrounded by technology and rather then taking to someone they text them and lose the social aspect of it.

·       True

·       Stereotypes – The kids that go to public schools all talk about fighting and that’s their exercises, where the boarding schools are doing ballet for their excises and its more formal.