KENNY RODGERS: CARDS ON THE TABLE

BY JACK ETTINGER

THEMES

TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY • Mixes

• Biographical • Family and Friendship• Determination • Changing the music industry• Success

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE • Circular• Open • Single • Non-Linear

CAMERA WORK

Interviews

• Medium close up• Close up • Shallow Depth of Field• Off Centre (left and right)• Follows rule of thirds • Eyes third of the way down• Pull focus • Handheld camerawork • Still images zoom in and out • Pan and tilt • Big close up• Low angle • Moving camera-Car • Actuality Footage of performance

MISE-EN-SCENE

• Pianos-Jukebox-Mixing desk Suits the genre

• Music-links to the interview topic

• Quiet room

• The footage-where he grew up-Empty streets

• Gambling-Roulette Wheel

SOUND

• Kenny Rodgers Music • Gospel music • Female voiceover• Standard• Calm• clear • Links Different Together • Introduces and summary

EDITING

• Cut

• Red and yellow flashes, some still images

• Dissolve between still images

• Montage-Nashville

• Questions are edited out of interviews

• Cutaways were used to avoid jumps

• Zoom in and out

ARCHIVE MATERIAL• Vinyl

• Record covers

• Performances

• Small images

• Old photographs

• Gambler TV

GRAPHICS

• Name- Capitals

• Subline

• UTLC-Anchors Refinance

• White

• serif font

• Ranged left or right of the screen

• simple easy to read