Homework Documentary Analysis 1:Type of Documentary: Mixed
Themes: Pregnancy
Narrative Structure: Closed/Single-strand/Non-linear
Camerawork:
Extreme close-up on unidentified face (glasses) looking at scan. Both from front and behind angle
Interviewees on right or left of screen - Medium close-up or medium shot.
Side-wide shot of woman going into scan, cut to her entering scan(high angle)(match-on-action). Also extreme close-up used.
Close-up of surgery - incisions/stomach/finding baby (stone). All handheld.
Establishing shots - countryside, etc.
Tracking forwards/sideways takes.
Handheld filming (travelling in cars/surgery)
Close-up on fiddling hands (anticipation) and probe.
Slow pan over foetus scans. Extreme close-up of woman's eyes (anticipation). Close-up of dissection.
Zoom in on stone baby - whoa, what? factor. and slow pan (detail). Extreme close-up used for finer detail.
Zoom in and out of stills.
Close-up of adult hand touching babies - meaning/size difference realisation.
Mise-en-Scene:
Interviews - hospital bed, Tree(nature), Family pictures(homely values)
Town and deserted country - establishes surroundings.
Shot of sun breaking through clouds and shining on dark house - spiritualisation (with spiritual music).
Old women interview - light clothes, symbolises purity and innocence.
dusty roads, dead-looking city (significance to dead stone-baby)
Doctors in white coats in front of white light from Windows down a dark corridor - signifies doctors goodness.
Bookcase and scans behind and to the left of doctors interview footage - establishes occupation.
Dark shot of house under horrible cloudy weather - foreshadowing daunting news.
Images of lifeline in background of operation footage (life tracking) - slowly becomes more focused on.
Sunny shots of couples and children in field - connotes purity. complete difference to old lady's footage.
Sound:
Intro - tense music with female voiceover about old woman's story 'crippled in pain'. No accent.
Translation over voiceover (accent matches). Translation finishes before interviewee.
Spiritual music for old woman and stone baby.
Tinkling and religious music (whilst telling of losing baby - mourning status).
Sinister music - twins may be in danger - warning.
Disjointed music on images of probe and news of triplets, etc.
Ambulance sound in background before we see ambulance - sign of trouble.
Very technical music - panic for trouble (quickened), calm for calmness, disjointed for others.
Editing:
Lots of dissolves - matching similar filming (disjointed shots down hospital corridor)
Cuts
Blurred film to connote woman's suffering. Also blurred surgeons in surgery (hide identity) and blurred film of painful flashbacks.
Black and white film of country passing-by.
Pan shot over dark and sinister country with woman's voiceover of sad story (similar to Melanie's confession).
'Perilous surgery' over film of surgical instruments - direct link.
Brightness added to shot of tracking handheld down corridor - turning a meaning into a memory.
Archive material:
Images (x-rays) of 'stone' dead foetus.
Kinetic drawings showing egg implanted in woman - describing and showing what happened.
Re-enactment footage of unidentified woman in pain behind hospital curtain - signify old woman's pain - also alludes to the meaning of the pain and suffering.
Actuality footage: Surgery/operations and finding foetus, images of stone baby, real delivered baby, scans, footage of family in park (happy families).
Re-enactment of being rushed into hospital in ambulance, and of woman waking in pain.
Images of other 'stone babies' and diagrams.
Film of special care baby unit.
Graphics:
Title sequence - images of human body(diagrams), newspaper stories and 'My SHOCKING Story' (written in case used).
Interviews - only displays name of interviewee, e.g. professor______, Dr________ (capital at beginning of each name, lower case for rest). Only displays names for doctors/professors - not for subject people.
Credits: running upwards over black background. simple.
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