Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop

Type of DocumentaryThis is a mixed documentary as there is a variety of observations, interviews with a different people within the music industry – relating to the topic. There is also a variety of archive footage used.

ThemeThe theme of this documentary is music, and the way this particular band evolved and went through.

Narrative StructureAt the start of the documentary, there is a montage of archive footage of the band playing live and there are some interviews with people within the music industry too. It then goes to the title. In the middle they’re going chronologically explaining what the band have been through, their popularity, how they got there, etc. They have images fading in and out sometimes, and cut aways in front of the voice of some interviews to keep the audience interested. At the end of this documentary, it explains what happen to them and shows the people from the band today explaining how they came to terms with it, and what happened to their close relationships. This rounds off the documentary as it is a conclusion to the end of their road.

Camera Work

Most of the footage that was used as cut aways is archive

footage so it wasn't the best quality as it was recorded a fair

few years ago.

The interviews were done professionally as they were all at a

medium shot and the person being interviews was only ever

on the right or the left. There are panning shots of recording

studios, long shots of music shops and low angle shots of

signs for Hollywood, and so on.

Mise en Scene

The mise en scene of the interviews is quite good as in the

background of most interviews it is related to music. There’s

an interview that took place in a recording studio, and one

near a stage with a microphone fuzzy in the background.

Sound

The non-diegetic sound in the background is always music by

Fleetwood Mac, so that it relates to what the whole

documentary is about. There are also some times diegetic

sound coming from the archive footage, like fans

screaming, them singing live, etc.

Editing

The editing in this documentary involves a lot of simple cuts

like most documentaries. There are fade transitions when

they show images, and sometimes it is editing so that the

image is zoomed in on. There are surprisingly no banners or

titles for people in the interviews too.

Graphics

The graphics in this documentary include the title from the

opening sequence. There are no banners or titles of people

who have been interviewed, so there aren’t different graphics

to usual.

Archive Material

the whole documentary features archive material throughout

it. Most of the cut aways are done using these. It is usually

footage from them performing in the past, or past images they

took themselves as they moved forward in their journey.

There are also ones of fans screaming and singing along to

the live music. Just a wide variety of archive material that was

used.