9/11 Inside story

Type or Documentary

• Mixed

Themes

• War, conspiricy, NewYork, Twin towers, terrorist and religion
  

Narrative Structure

• Non-linear
• Open structure

Camerawork

• Zoom into 4 attackers face
• Low angle towards peoples feet in the airport, pan across
• Zoom quick into 17 close ups of faces of the attackers
• Point of view shot, going to the plane
• Birds eye view of map on different states of America.
• Point of view shot of terrorist
• Zoom out of faces who lost their lives
• Low angle of twin towers to represent power
• Hand held camera of footage of the twin towers being hit.
• Low angle hand held zoom to the top of the towers.
  

Mise-en-scene

Sound

• Interviews- 3rd of the way down and left or right to screen with medium close up
• Voiceover- man, standard English, calm and clear.
• Translator- pakistan accent and roughly the same age as the attacker.
• Audio of air hostess and terrorists
• Histerical New Yorkers - American commentary

Editing

• Slow motion of plane controls
• Map zooming into the airport
• Attackers faces on a flag effect, extreme close up into blur
• Computerised looking footage of planes leaving each airport.
• computerised version of the twin towers and damage
• faint images of pilots of the plane displayed over the control pannels of the plane.
• Fast motion view of whole plane
• still images from inside the twin towers attack
• still images of important people
• black and white photos of New York

Archive Material

• Twin towers
• CNN live
• Afganistan/war
• Audio of New York radio on september 11th
• Airport
• footage of plane hitting towers
• CCTV footage of attackers at airport
• audio of airhostess, terrorist, Texas, North Carolina, New York and Washington.
  

Graphics

• Interview- Name, job (relevance to documentary)
• White lower case, sans - translates
• title with newspaper headlines as a background
• place, time etc shown in the left or right corner of screen in white sans font
• Quotes from what Betty Ong says from the plane
• American 11 appears on top of the screen whist moving footage of the plane is shown.
• Time keeps appearing in the bottom left.
• Credits- White, lowercase, sans
  
  
  
  
  

This clip is not real footage from inside 9/11 but it is hand held camera videoing the terrorist attacks of the south tower.