ANALYSIS OF A SIMILAR EXTRACT- AMY WOLSTENHOLME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9TyCNpUNuQ

The rise and fall of Danity Kane

The documentary starts off with a high tempo track playing quietly whilst a photo of danity kane slides in bit by bit revealing each member one at a time. This imediatly creates an upbeat fast paced feel drawing in the audience. After this a voice over is heard whilst shots of their success e.g. album covers an scenes of concerts are shown the editing is quite fast paced being cut from one shot to another keeping in with the feel of the rest of the introduction. suddenley the music changes to a more violent sounding track as the voice over explains that their career ended badly. Images are shown in black and white of the band argueing to illustrate what is ment. The audience are told that they will learn from the begining as a scene is played backwords and a rewinding sound effect is played. then alot or climatic drum music is heard. This whole introduction makes the programme sound exiting and that it is possible they could find out a lot of scandal, drawing in the audience.

After that a title sequence is shown pink and orange patterns surrounding pictures of the band are cut toegther whilst a danity kane song is played. these colours seem to fit in with the programmes audience which would be yound adults that are female. Each band member are fazed on with their name shown next to them. This introduces them to the audience imediatly giving them a bond with the characters this way they will carry on watching the programme. At 1.50 a medium shot of screaming fans is played it suddenly turns to slow motion and flashes black and white, this is to symbolise their downfall.

A medium close up flashes on screen in a pink haze to reveal p.diddy doing a piece to the camera explaining about danity kane's career, this is very typical in this genre. The audio does a sound bridge as it carries on over a shot of the band dancing. It then cuts to a high angle long shot of crowds and a singing competition whilst a voice over is still being heard. The sound of the voice over is very good is builds up tension and really gets the audience wanting to know more information, usually this is what voiceovers sound like in documentaries. A medium shot is shown of a girl singing it is then cut to shot reverse shot whilst a short conversation takes place the editing has now slowed down.

What seems like a monatge of flash backs is slowly played bordered in a pink and purple haze this technique makes it simpler for the audience to understand and follow the story. Pink- get this party started is heard as pans of new york city are slowly cut together. This is away of rising the mood after all the meloncholy atmosphere before. it cuts to a medium straight on shot of Andrea talking straight to the camera about her experience in new york is shown followed by fast cuts of girls dancing. a small of squence of shot reverse shot is on screen as p.diddy watches the girls. once again the voice over starts explaining the story. All this is keeping the audience involved an on track, which is important for a documentary.

This 5 minute extract is similiar in sticking to the conventions of a documentary. Alot of scenes are cut together in order to sell a story, however i would have expected more interviews or pieces to camera from the actual band mates. However this had more voice overs. This makes it different to our style of documentary.