Documentary Analysis

‘The Devil made me do it’

Type of Documentary

‘The Devil Made Me Do It’is a mixed documentary because it includes archive footage, interviews, observations and narration.

Themes

• Beliefs• Religion• Death• Criminal Investigation • Power of the Media• Youth Culture• Devil• Marilyn Manson

Narrative Structure

• Open Narrative – The questions we think while watching the documentary were not answered therefore it was an open narrative.

• Single Stranded- This means it was based on one topic or theme and was relevant to that throughout.

• Non- Linear- The events shown were not in date order on the documentary.

Camera Work

There were many shots of the streets particularly Long shots to show the area during the day in comparison to it when its night time and the youths are out.

Camera Work

• Titled medium close ups or long shots of the religious symbols, the iconography of religion really creates the atmosphere.

Camera Work

• Tilted long shot of the cross on the top of the church this is relevant to the documentary as its about a religious innocent person being murdered.

Camera Work• Conventional Interviews meaning that they are

either close ups or medium close ups and the interviewee is either on the left or right side of the screen looking at the interviewer.

Mise en Scene• Set in a small northern Italian village where

lots of people who were very religious lived.

Mise en Scene

• Throughout the Documentary there are binary oppositions shown through Mise en scene. Such as :

• Good V Bad• Dark V Light• Mason V God• This is done through clothing, lighting and

iconography.

Binary Opposition – Dark V Light Whenever something came on to do with the Mariyln or the young girls the lighting was dark however when something to do with the nun was on it was light with lots of religious symbols involved.

Mise en Scene

• During Marilyn’s interviews half of his face is dark this represents him as evil or scary.

Mise en Scene

The Background Interview reflects the persons role in which they play and anchors there meaning.

The interview is of Marilyn Manson and the background of the interview is his dressing room to show he his role which is a performer/famous singer.

Sound

• Special effect of the heart beat reinforces the impact and empathises the atmosphere.

• Church music and bells played while people paid their respects which was peaceful and is the opposite to Marilyn's music which is played a lot.

• Translator who was Italian reflected persons age or gender.

• Voice over was a young male who spoke standard English and this held the whole documentary together.

Editing• Slow motion when carrying the coffin to

create a more relaxed and sad atmosphere. This dramatized the actual footage.

Editing

• Pace of cuts changed according to where we were e.g when in Marilyn's concert they sped up.

• Quick cuts in reconstruction to reflect the action going on and this highlights the emotion.

Archive Material

Newspaper Cutting

Archive Material

Music Video of Marilyn Manson

Archive Material

Interviews

Archive Material

Confessions

Graphics

• White text telling us who was speaking , white stands out and connotes innocence.

• The text tells us who was speaking ,what relation to the subject was ,dates and places.

Graphics

Graphics at the end to close the narrative.