'Cloverfield'
> Mockumentary - text used at beginning to make it seem like real footage> Ubiquitous use of handheld camera - shaky at points of detestation - that would happen; realism
> Date/time on camera
> Realism - cuts in camera filming disaster
> Distant police/ambulance/fire engine alarms
> Screaming
> Helicopters
> Megaphone
> When the monster first attacked - crowds of people running away - lost in crowds of people: use of realism
'Kids Behind Bars: It's Just My Life - Trouble'
> Intro sequence:
> Fighting/knives/language - they want us to be shocked, want us to know they are violent by means of this portrayal> CCTV cameras - from a height - they are being monitored by someone "higher up" than them
> Fast editing - hooking audience in - cramming info
> Style of music builds tension
> Shots from a trampoline - childlike
> Camera is always shaky, but subtle, when interviewing boys (to create a sense of ubiquitous unsteadiness - keeping audience on the edge as if the kids will lash out at any point); yet camera is still when interviewing staff - the staff are portrayed as "stable" and kids "unstable", portrayed so we view the staff as "right"
> in interviewing room with all staff - a head in the way - we are literally positioned in with these people, so the audience are positioned and invited as one of these "right" people, further enhances kids as outsiders
'How the Other Half Live'
> Establishing shots of the scene/area
> Emphasises how poor they are (broken bed, debts, wishes for new bed) - "I have a mountain of bills"
> Emphasises crime - isolated in home; many locks on door
> Dark lighting/colours used
> Juxtapositions with white wealthy family, shows how 'great' their lives are
> Much brighter lighting/colours used
> Emphasises how rich and educated the white family is
> Big, luxurious garden
> Contrast between the rich and the poor emphasised largely through mise-en-scene to create contrasting representations that are then juxtaposed
> The editors choice in using specific toy - the girl presses a button and it speaks, "What should I buy?" - highlights sum of money they own and what they can freely think of buying
> Visits Gumpo's home - use of sad, melancholic music
> When white girl is being interviewed - lays on her expensive bed
'The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On'> Dramatic reconstruction
> Use of the clock - builds tension
> Interviewed on stairs
> Filming an interview on TV - referring to a source
> "Sources say..." - reliable?
> Experts interviewed
'The Boys who Killed Stephen Lawrence'
> Chance police to confront racism...
> "...not enough evidence"
> Surveillance footage of suspected murderer - investigating them undercover
> Interview with best friend (Duwayne Brooks) with crime writer, family solicitor: "didn't act in the first 24 hours" - most important hours, forensic evidence
> Reconstruction footage of murder
> Crime scene photos (blood on ground; real footage)> Fade to black/montage section repeated
> Black bin liner photograph - police did not act on it - forensic + identification evidence - "a golden opportunity missed"
> Took 13 days until arrest warrants were attained
> Use of real police tape recorded interview
> Photographs of various knives/weapons of suspects
> Montage of gang/group (group photograph) - they had a passion for knife usage - in order to join this group you had to stab somebody - 4 successful, but no prosecutions
> Interview with a victim
> Covert police camera footage in a plug socket - "vicious, racist material"
> But - didn't talk about murder, only caught racist behaviour
> Told how to behave
> Interview footage of each suspect
> Visits their homes - do not answer their doors
> Operation Athena Tower - case could still not be solved
> John Davidson - suspicion of corrupting - for money - bribed (£500)
> "...a gross miscarriage of justice"
'Bowling for Columbine'
> Michigan - open an account at North Country Bank and you get a free gun - "Do you think it's a little dangerous handing out guns in a bank?"> Can buy bullets in the hairdressers
> Michigan Militia - "...American tradition to be armed, if you're not armed you're not responsible. It's your job to defend you and yours."
> Columbine High School shootings - uses real police phone calls
> 11,127 gun shootings a year in US - more than any other country
> use of animation, historical footage, modern footage, interviews
> Moore emphasises his points through facts - Y2K, killer bees (year 2000), hidden razorblade in apple at Halloween - kids not allowed to go out at night - scaring the American public (propaganda: media, politicians)
> "Black crime" - choosing what people watch ("African" killer bees; "Africanized bees") - Arthur Butsch: "...black people have become an entertainment")
> Crime crates dropping, fear of crime increasing
> Moore: "You can't see the Hollywood sign because of pollution - why no coverage on that?"; "Arrest for polluting up the air" - sergeant ignores him
> "do a show called 'Corporate Cops'"
> Canada, Windsor, across from Detroit - 1 gun crime in 3 years - "very low"
> Canadians - not pumped with fear via the chosen content of the media
> Canadians - don't have to pay for healthcare
> (Kayla Rolland shooting)
> Flint, Michigan
> After 9/11 bombings - gun sales 70%, Ammo 140%
> Kids won against K-Mart to stop selling fire arms and ammo
> Expository and interactive style of documentary
> Intervention - Moore mostly acts in a proactive mode (involved in the important questions of the film and in answering them)
'Best in Show'
> Camera: handheld at beginning - unstable, psychiatrist - 2 shots, interviews> Lots of medium/close ups - a lot of conversation/confined in
> Talks to camera - cameraman passive
> Setting - dog owners' homes
> Long shots of dogs - examining
> Handheld camera - realistic - places the audience within the frame
> Sound: Diegetic - interview/voices/clapping
> 'Champion' music when dog show starts
> Commentary/megaphone, audience clapping
> Crowd's applause dims when guy tells awkward joke; crowd dies down when commentators speak
> Mise en scene: dog show
> A lot of different locations - different kids of dog owners. Stadium.
> Editing: Slow cuts - formal/realistic, names of interviewees and dog owners on screen
> Mayflower Dog Shows
> Brings characters together
> Realistic portrayal of owners and pets
'This is Spinal Tap'
> a parody of the heavy metal rock genre - "rockumentary"
> people thought they were a real band - ended up releasing music as that band
> setting - venues - 'opening party night', NYC; Fidelity Hall, Philadelphia
> Interview in garden - deadpan interviews
> Text over video
> Band members talking over each other - not scripted - improvised talk
> Archive footage as children - grew up together writing songs, emphasises its conveying it as real
> Handheld camera - interviews, backstage footage, live convert
> Medium/close ups of band members on stage - interviews/up in conversation
> Low angle shots coupled with medium/close ups in fan crowds - as if we're to admire them, makes us feel as if we're in the crowd
> Can see the interviewer on screen
'The Most Hated Family in America'
> Protests about homosexuals/homosexuality: protest signs, shouting/confronting public about their arguement>Theroux - narration - informative/sarcastic
- challenges their views + religion - 10 commandments - adultery, not homosexuality
> Interactive - Theroux in documentary, follows them on their protests, interviewing family members - especially mother - supposed to raise children in a positive manner (the children will be told their mother is right because she is one of their socialisation figures) - conveys his message about their wrong doings.
> Family driven by religion - "God hates fags"
> Handheld camera, tracking - following family to observe their messages in a realistic situation. Theroux "keeps distance" when they protest - not part of it - further emphasises his arguement, limited to that community
> Public questions - children are made to be involved in discriminating
- out of touch with contemporary society
> Megan + Bekah - daughters - "no posters of boy bands"; never had boyfriends - "a waste of time." Friends are limited to the people within the group who agree with the message.> Theroux defines their following as a cult
> The entire community of the group all singing their message in a parody of Christianity - extremists
> Looking at photographs of family members - "Is she gone?", "Those who have gone away" - seems as if they are discussing who has passed away - but they only left that negative community, and no longer accepted as part of the family
> Theroux always keeps a straight face - serious, jokes about it- gets a reaction of the girl in regard to "temptation" - a touchy subject
> Fades to black - end of interview - that's it, definite
> A lot of close ups when talking to man - between Louis and the man - up in conversation to discuss the topical arguement
> Louis challenges with facts - gets a reaction out of him
> Children - "they have friendly aquaintences" - not friends - "Do you think they would want to come to our house?"
> Louis asks child "Do you know what the sign means?" - "No." - mother pumping hatred into him; she is socialising them this way to integrate within that community, "Grooming them into the weird behaviour of this group" (Louis)
> University - girl - "I have aquantences"
- Louis, questions about dating
> "As the time passed I could feel myself getting to know the family"; "...a more human side to their personalities" (girls) - scene provides a sense of friendship and companionship, then immediately contrasts/juxtapositions with the child being injured as being part of that group - 7 years old - their children are victims via their socialisation to discriminate
> On sign - "FAG USA" - American flag flipped upside down, indicates America as a whole is twisted and different from the group
> Crosscutting - "eat your babies", then cuts to shot of a baby - juxtaposition
> A man tied American flag to his shoes - stepping on his own country's values
> Shouting at American troops
> There is a big focus on interviewing the mother
> Their message is reflected back at them, limiting them to their religious community and restricting them from integrating into mass society
> Theroux gets the girl to open up to him
'The Family'
> Establishing characters - close ups
> Fast paced editing, some blurry editing - hectic household - crams info, then cuts to observation
> Fly on the wall
> Many different camera shots, close ups etc. - observing all aspects and areas of their lives> Filming every day activities (Dad going to work)
> Camera is unobtrusive
> Camera is very still, only moves when tracking them - but slowly
> Close ups during arguement between Mum + Emily + Dad (faking being ill to not go to work to go out with friends) - captures realistic emotions/expressions - confrontation - a family integrated situation - we are invited to observe
> Mixture of low & high angle shots, zoom - Emily and mum, panning, static
> Setting - the family's house (lounge; bedroom; kitchen; porch, high angle shot)
> Lighting - not altered, fly on the wall - observes morning/afternoon/evening - natural, realistic
> Dressing gown
> Narration of son
> Girl's music - club music, black clothing and make up - party girl
> Radio becomes the non-diegetic sound
> Mostly diegetic - makes it seem more realistic; snoring, phones, silence - natural
> Interviewer - unseen, off-camera
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