Meatloaf documentary analysis

Type of documentary

This documentary is very factual and it also a “Voice of god” documentary meaning that someone throughout the episode speaks what is going on but it has to be backed up by archive footage and cutter way shots. This is about a singer called meatloaf who had made it big in America but because of one song it could of been the end of his career but he came fighting back and got to wear he wanted to be.

Narrative structureThis narrative structure starts with the brit awards showing how famous meatloaf was this engages the audience and shows them how good the music artist joust to be then it goes into a long section of the documentary witch shows meatloaf making the music video this shows the audience how much hard work he actually has to put into become a big star. Then it goes into a section that at the ymca and the betting shop witch creates conflict as they are deciding who is going to become the Christmas number one the ymca or meatloaf! It then moves onto they awards ceremony were meatloaf thanks the audience and this shows his affection and how much it means to him and then it finishes with the main song witch hasn't bean played through the hole series

Camera work

Allot of cutter ways are you'd to back up the voice of god there is also allot of hand held camera work witch makes the audience feel like there actually their its not planed its very kayotic and it makes the audience very excited. They try and make the camera work build up towards they ends this gets the audience more and more excited

Mise-en-scene

Informal interviews with music industries on a green screen the green screen is a sheet of green that you film in front of then you put into a computer to add a background this looks really good as it adds excitement into the video there eyes also interviews that go on behind it and there is one person on each time however two people have two different opinions but they have been put on two different sides so it looks like they are having a conversation this shows conflict throughout the documentary

sound

The sound for this documentary is a voice of god this is a narrator talking through the hole of the series explaining what is going on this is also backed up by cutter ways and images the voiceover also reacts with the interviews witch interacts the audience without the voiceover the documentary would not make sense.

editing

Filming fast short shots to make the audience feel interested and keeping them on there feet wanting to no whats going to go on next . there is a really big build up to the big song at they end witch is what the audience wants to hear there is also allot of newspaper articles piled up on top of each other showing all the news about him. This shows more history on him etc

Archive material

There is footage from the brit awards showing his past experiences this shows the audience his history and how many fans he youst to have there are short shots and videos of his fans screaming his name this shows he yost to be very popular it also shows he joust to be on allot of programmes and allot of programmes and record labels did not want him anymore so he only had one chance from one record label.

graphics

There is allot of montage editing for example there is allot of creative pictures inside of a magazine this is showing all of the different footage from meatloaf and the time he has been around for there is a name in the bottom left hand corner saying "music bizz” this tells the audience who is taking and creating the documentary