School For Stars

Analysis by Gina Rimmer

Type of Documentary

• School For Stars is mainly a docusoap as it follows particular characters in detail, it also has interview with the dancers and a voice over.

Themes

• Dance• Dreams• Hopes• Passion• Glamour• Fame• Fun• Friendship

Narrative Structure

The way the information is given to us. This documentary shows the students getting ready for a big performance, the hard work and struggle some of them have to go through to get to be the best.

• Rule of 3rd shot when interviewing the students.

• Hand Held Camera to take the footage of the dancers training.

Camerawork

Mis-en-scene

• Bright lighting due to being in a dance studio most of the time

• Training outfights, leggings, short tops, jogging bottoms

• Not much makeup while they are training but bright bold makeup for performing

• Hair neat and tidy, normally off the face.

• Dance music• Singing by students• Chattering off students after

practice

Sound

Editing

• Pace, this is the fast or slow way editors edit footage together, so it is fast pace when showing a routine in practice but slow when interviewing students.

• Cut transition is where the editor decides to cut the take of footage and place another piece in.

• Cut away (A Roll, B Roll) is where the editor cuts away from one thing to something completely different or is in relation to what someone has just said in the footage beforehand

Archive Material

• This means it has already been filmed and the editors have chosen to use it.

Graphics

• Titles • Lower thirds titling