The Music Biz -The marketing of Meatloaf

Type of Documentary

• Mixed

Themes

• The marketing of music, creation of image.
• Power of the media to influence the audience behaviour

Narrative Structure

• Non-Linear- doesnt run in order of time
• Closed structure
• Single strand (one main narrative, not different stories).

Camerawork

• Interviews- framed to the left or right of the screen with interviewees eye line a third of the way down the screen (conventional)
• Four different interviews with Meatloaf.
• Variety of camerawork.
• Extreme close up of magazine and CD covers (pan up and down) with camera movement on the still images to make them more interesting and on moving images.
• High and low angle shot used on different places.
• Point of view shot of someone walking in the betting office (creative)
• Filming the media interview Meatloaf
• Hand held camera (behind the scene footage)

Mise-en-scence

• CHROMAKEY- blue or green creen.
• Background of chromakey is related to archive/actuality footage related to what the interviewee is talking about.

Sound

• Voiceover- sarcastic, male, standard English, small Scottish accent, calm and clear delivery.
• Narrators speech
• Meatloaf music.

Editing

• Interviewees dissolve in and out (All the same questions asked) and then the three interview footage is cut up and linked together.
• Intercutting/cross cutting between interviews to construct the narrative.
• Freeze moving background image when interviewee talking so the audience isn't distracted
• Filming of behind scenes video to how it looked in the video.
• Slow motion used.
• Dissolves-not that effective.

Archive Material

• Magazine covers, CD covers, TV clips,music videos, chat shows, award show (Brits and Grammy awards), News footage (American and British).
• Used partly as chromakey background to construct the mise-en-scene of interviews.

Graphics

• The title sequence-moving images into interviews
• Series logo in the left hand corner-name, their job. (Anchored the relevance) Ranged from right to the left of the screen.
• White capitals in sans serif font.

I could not find any footage from the real programme so i added the music video that was being made throughout "The music Biz" .