Kids Behind Bars
Type of Documentary - Mixed
Themes
- Youth violence
- The law
- Problems in society
Narrative structure
- Open narrative
- Multi-strand
- Linear
Camerawork
- Establishing shots of prison with long takes and pans.
- Medium and close ups used in interviews.
- Interviewee is on the left or right ana looks at interviewer not the camera
- High angle shots from CCTV
- Zooms in and out
- Extreme close up of phone to read text message.
Mise-en-scene
- Children's prison
- Bare walls
- Cameras
- Fences
- Bars
- Cells
Sound
- Police Sirens
- Classical and calm music to go against nature of the programme. (Juxtaposition)
- Voiceover is a young male with slight cockney accent, speaks standard english.
Editing
- Quick cuts
- Elliptical editing
- Fade to black
Graphics
- Names and job title in white sans serif font. Bottom left and right of screen, opposite to interviewee
- Screen set out like Facebook Profile, image of boy with white font showing Facebook status next to it
- Credits cut to next set of credits with change of picture as background.
Here is the first part of the documentary...