Documentary Analysis

Title; That thing Lara Croft
Channel; BBC
Themes; Sexuality, technology, stereotyping of women and Gender.
Narrative Structure; Starts with a cartoon game and goes onto the real life version with Angelina Jolie. It talks about the influence the game has had on both men and women and becomes compared Barbie and being an icon, also like a puppet with psychological links. It ends in a closed narrative structure.
Camerawork; Handheld camera work as if we are watching the people play on the game with close up and medium close up interviews (head shots). Interviewee positioned correctly left or right of the camera and the frame was tilted to make it more realistic. There is an over the shoulder shot and a side view of people playing the game to match the voices.
Mise en scene; Green/blue screen was used as the background was an image of the game to reinforce the message.
Sound; Young male voice over to match the target audience, and the fast paced music connoted the pace of the game. Sound effects are used to make the game more realistic and appeal to the audience. When Madonna is spoke about being an icon her music comes on lightly.
Editing; Straight cuts are used so the documentary is simple and realistic. The cuts are fast motion to resemble the game and lots of cutaway of the game are used to illustrate the points that are made. Also they have super imposed a face onto a laptop screen to show the technology used.
Archive Material; The cutaways are the archive footage of the game, film clips, the website, advert for Nike, interview of Angelina Jolie and extracts of magazines.
Graphics;The opening sequence had "That thing" in a speech box. The name of the interviewee and the name of the company were in titles below and the credits at the end were in speech bubbles.

Everything in the documentary is to reflect the documentary and attract the target audience.