A2 music analysis

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A2 Documentary: Downloading Music The documentary uses an off-screen narrator which means they rely on the background footage to entertain the viewers. Begins with a question to engage viewer. Lots of fast paced editing of various footage such as iTunes, Cd’s etc. keeps the documentary lively and entertaining. It replicates the fast paced backing music also. The title introduction was quite creative when the CD came out of the player as it represents what the documentary is about, how CD’s aren’t being used anymore. When they display facts, the background footage is partially blurred. The text looks quite basic and not professional however. When introducing the interviewees, it shows them indulged in their work which is good background footage. For the expert interviews, they have framed the expert to the right, however he is also looking to the right and not across the camera which is different from other documentaries. Whilst he is talking the music plays throughout the fill the dead noise space. They time their shots greatly in sync when it is said by the expert (e.g. when the expert is talking about a library it switches to a panning shot of people using computers i n a library.) The sound levels remain similar through most of the interviews which avoids viewers to be put off by a fault in editing. They use a variety of transitions to cut between different shots which subtly removes a factor of repetitiveness. The vox pops includes the background noise which adds a realism to it. However, I feel that the sound quality and sound levels of the vox pops aren’t too great. I also feel that the documentary ends very suddenly and sort of just cuts off which is disappointing as the documentary as a whole wasn’t too bad prior to this.

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A2 Documentary: Downloading Music The documentary uses an off-screen narrator which means they rely on the background footage to entertain the viewers. Begins with a question to engage viewer. Lots of fast paced editing of various footage such as iTunes, Cd’s etc. keeps the documentary lively and entertaining. It replicates the fast paced backing music also. The title introduction was quite creative when the CD came out of the player as it represents what the documentary is about, how CD’s aren’t being used anymore. When they display facts, the background

footage is partially blurred. The text looks quite basic and not professional however. When introducing the interviewees, it shows them indulged in their work which is good

background footage. For the expert interviews, they have framed the expert to the right, however he is also looking to the right and not across the camera which is different from

other documentaries. Whilst he is talking the music plays throughout the fill the dead noise space. They time their shots greatly in sync when it is said by the expert (e.g. when the

expert is talking about a library it switches to a panning shot of people using computers in a library.) The sound levels remain similar through most of the interviews which avoids

viewers to be put off by a fault in editing. They use a variety of transitions to cut between different shots which subtly removes a factor of repetitiveness. The vox pops includes the background noise which adds a realism to it. However, I feel that the sound quality and sound levels of the vox pops aren’t too great. I also feel that the documentary ends very suddenly and sort of just cuts off which is disappointing as the documentary as a whole wasn’t too bad prior to this.