LARA CROFT
That Thing
- Single Stranded Narrative with lots of detail.
GRAPHICS
- Persons Name- What their job is
- Positioned in bottom left hand of screen, telling viewer when an advert is coming up
- Animation
- Title of film in speech bubbles making the Documentary unique
Interview with Angelina Jolie
Movie Extracts
Nike Advert
ARCHIVE MATERIAL
The Game Extracts
Internet Information
Magazine Information
SOUND
Voice Over-
- Young Man
- Standard English
- Reflects audience
Non-Digetic-
- Upbeat music reflects the game
EDITING
- Fast pace- camera moves down stairs and looking/moving whilst people are playing the game itself.
- Super inter vision- Green from game on woman's face
- Conventional- Only answers to questions used in interviews
There is always reference to a computer or the video game somewhere on the screen even if it means the camera is moving like a video game would.
MISE-EN-SCENE
Blue screen is used behind people in interviews. Edited in after is images from the computer game, this gives a direct reference to the documentary, the background footage is out of focus so that the person being interviews is not distracted.
Interviews-
- Close Up
- Medium Close Up
- Big Close Up
- Titled Frame
Shot through box as if person being interviewed is in the computer screen
CAMERA WORK
Tilted frame- Looking at person playing game
Still camera in interviews- easy to concentrate on person
Over Shoulder shot- Showing people playing on computers
Pan across- On computer screens and articles
Camera moves around- Direct reference to the video games
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
Power of the Media
Feminism
THEMES
Lara Croft
Video Games
Fantasy
Representation of Women
TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY
That Thing is a mixed Documentary because it contains interviews, a narrator and archive footage.