Genre Analysis: Analysis of Public Enemy number 1: The Devil made me do it

Type of Documentary:

• Mixed

Documentary Themes:

• Devil worship vs Religion
• Crime
• Murder investigation
• Power of the Media- Can/how it influence individuals behaviour

Narrative Structure

• Open narrative
• Non Linear

Camerawork

Interviews: Left or right framing, eyeline 1/3 of the way down, medium closeup. On Manson interviews a low angle was used

• Handheld camera on interview of man selling Manson merchandise: shows interview not prearranged
• Two shot of couple on couch

Creative Camerawork: Low and high angles, tacking, panning, zoom, crane, over the shoulder shot, close ups and extreme close ups.

Point of view shots:

• Of inspector in car and then police station
• Of a fan in Marliyn Mansons gig.
• Tilted frame of nun when shes being murdered.

Stock footage: Churches, religious iconography, establishing shots, birds eye view of cemetery.

Archive footage: Images, newspapers, cttv footage, Marliyn Manson gigs and music videos. Camera movement used on still images e.g. zoom

Press conference: The media is filmed during the press conference to show the distance between the documentary makers and the rest of the journalists, and observes shots of news cameras.

Mise-En-Scene

Low angle shot of police officer cap on desk - Authoritive

Stock footage- dark with a glow of yellow or blue

Manson interview in low angle and left side of face lit up and the right dark- connotations of good vs evil and split personality

Nun on her own in a basic plain room- Isolated

Manson Fans- eccentric and rebellious

Sound

Voiceover;

• Narrator
• Male
• Standard English
• Clam delivery
• Acts as glue that holds the narrative together
• Voice overs that translate into English had similar age to the person they were translating on the screen

Mansons music

Sound effects e.g. heart beat

Choral Religious music

Editing

• Most common editing technique: Cut

• Priest driving- Just audio, slow motion
• Reconstruction of nuns death- Sounds used to play out the reconstruction e.g heartbeat and thuds. Point of view shot of the nun lying on the floor
• Footage of Manson fans at concert with choral/religious music: it jars which is juxtaposition. Satanic rock and abusive controversial images with religious music. Two opposing things together and create meaning. Connotations of worshipping Satan.
• Manson in Mcdonalds shows that 'Marilyn Manson is a character' as he is going against his individuality by buying food from a corporate company like Mcdonalds.

Archive Material

1. News footage e.g. Police investigation and funeral
2. Still images
3. Marylin Manson music videos
4. Italian talk show
5. American massacre news reports

Graphics

Text under interviews: White text, sans serif- Name of person and relevance to documentary. It anchors their meaning to the topic and is aligned right or left of the screen with the name slightly bigger text that the rest.

Text used for dates and places: to show period of time

Text over audio: 'Veronicas confession' anchoring the audio to the person.

Summary of events at end: used to close the narrative of the trail.

Subtitles for Manson song lyrics

Title: Gothic Crufix