analysis of the documentary marketing meatloaf

Analysis of the Documentary-

Marketing Meatloaf

The Music Biz Marketing Meatloaf

Type Of Documentary:

Narrated Fully–Narrator makes sense of individuals. Fly on the wall– behind the scenes.

Themes-Music Documentary: Meatloaf

Narrative Structure:Interviews– Close up of faces. Voiceover.Narrator. Flashbacks– causes emotion for audiences. Can see the audience getting involved.Sense of movement– chronological sense.

Camera Work: Free hand, close-up of faces; introducing the audience to

characters. Pans in extreme close ups from posters/ merchandise. Slow motion, tracking, cutaways. Panning extreme close up of artists name. Framing of interviews– rule of 3rds. Spirals– Meatloaf's face. Black and white stills of Meatloaf. Establishing shot of the setting– sets the scene for the audience. Camera arc around the men at the meeting.

• Mise-en-scene: Press room, awards room, set of ‘Anything for love’ video. Chromokey– moving image in the background during an interview. Board meeting around a table with notes in front of them. Busy worker– scruffy hair, messy office.

• Sound: Diegetic– fans cheering/ screaming hysterically– Captive audience. Non– diegetic. Voiceover-narrator. Meatloaf's music. Dialogue– music jargon, business jargon.

• Editing:Cutaways during interviews (quick). Wipe. Slow motion/ slow pace. Interviews that overlap. Super imposed/ fade– image over existing image, pops up. Making of the film- (archive). Cutaways of money.

• Archive Material: Meatloaf talking to friends and fans that are going crazy. Press conference. Brit awards. Elton John hosting– familiarizing with audience. Footage of awards ceremony. Footage of press conference back stage. Notes of marketing meatloaf– ideas on paper. Close up of CD– Meatloaf's actual name. Close up of sheets with notes about Meatloaf. Interview between cutaways.

• Graphics: T.I.M.E– graphics beside pictures. Names and job roles during interviews. Publication of the editor.