Documentry Analysis - Lara Croft

Lara Croft

Type Of Documentary

Mixed

Themes

• The representation of women
• Feminism
• Iconography - The power of the New Media
• Narrative Structure
• Male Narrator
• Closed narrative - Doesn't have an ending
• Single strand
• Non - linear

Camerawork

• Cutaways from the playstation game in interviews
• Close ups of women and men playing the game
• Canted camera - tilted frame for one interview
• A Point Of View tracking shot in the Cyber cafe
• The camera pans from the bottom of the character to the top to show the 'pornographic' image that the star has created
• Extreme close ups and medium close ups are used

Mise - en scene

• Chromakey is used in the background of the interviews of footage of the game
  The background is out of focus
• Low key lighting

Sound

• Non - digetic music in the background
• A male and female young voiceover is used
• The voiceovers use standard english to talk
• SFX are used of gunshots from the game
• Dance music is used in the background
• Madonnas 'ray of light' song is used as non - digetic music - as she is a powerful female icon

Editing

• Fast motion editing
• Cut edits
• Superemposed talking head onscreen
• Lots of cutaway shots used

Archive Material

• Footage from the Lara Croft game
• Footage from the Tomb Raider film
• An interview with Angelina Jolie
• Advert for Nike
• Still images - Extracts from a magazine
• Cutaways of E-mails

Graphics

• Rolling credits at the end
• Graphics are shown on the opposite side of the interviews
• Speechbubbles are used as a unique title
• Graphics are all lowercase