This documentary examines the murder of a nun by three teenage girls who were fans of Marilyn Manson. It explores themes of good vs. evil, religion vs. Satanism through interviews and footage. While Manson's music is analyzed for potentially influencing the girls, the documentary seems to take an open-minded approach without reaching a conclusion. It uses a variety of editing techniques and camerawork to portray the different perspectives on the events.

1. The Devil Made Me Do It

2. • Type of documentary: Mixed
Themes: Death, good vs. Evil, religion vs. Satan
vs. Christianity (Binary opposites, parenting,
communication with children, disaffected
youth.
• Narrative structure: A single stranded open
documentary which has no conclusion.

3. • Dates
• Locations
• Manson’s lyrics
• Details of the girls verdicts
• Names
• Credits
• Title
• Subtitle
Graphics

4. Archive Material
• Interviews
• Footage from school murders in Columbine
• Music videos
• Online, TV and newspaper

5. Editing
• Cuts
• Juxtaposition of choral and Manson’s music
over images of his fans
• Cutaways relating to what is being spoken
about

6. The title ‘The Devil Made
Me do It’ is in black and
white and looks rather
sinister which highlights
the fact that it says ‘The
Devil’ and the actual
story is of a murder.
The ‘t’ at the end in ‘it’
looks like a cross which
signifies the religious theme
to the documentary and
how a nun was killed
The background is eerie looking,
portraying the fact that the overall
documentary is creepy and dark, as it is
about a murder of a nun.
The mast head shows
that the people are
blaming the Devil for the
their own doings and
gives it Satan vs.
Christianity theme
Mise-en-scene

7. Low key lighting signifies the
rock genre of music and how it
is portrayed as ‘dark’
The dark attire and eccentric black and white
make-up link to how they are fans of Marilyn
Manson and are at his concert.
Mise-en-scene

8. Manson’s body language and
facial expression portrays
that he is tired and
annoyed at having been
accused of influencing
three teenage girls to kill a
nun
Close-up of
Manson
Mise-en-scene and camerawork

9. Manson is in a mid shot whilst
giving direct address to the
audience, making him seem
confident and not ‘sketchy’
which would further peoples
opinions on him being an
influence to the killing.
The background in this
shot is rather bare and not
very personal
Low key lighting reflects Manson's persona yet it also
makes him seem darker which could lead the audience
watching the DVD to believe that he overall is dark and
that maybe his dark nature influenced the girls into
killing the nun.
People being
interviewed are mainly
on the left or right of
the screen
Mise-en-scene and camera work

10. The scenery in the shot is misleading as it is calm and peaceful in contrast to the actual
story.
Mise-en-scene

11. This image is a close up of the women’s face which, from her facial expressions
tells us that she is concerned and a little scared about what happened.
Camerawork

12. Archive material in the
documentary
The title ‘Don’t blame ‘goth’ culture for
tragedy’ suggests that when a murder
tragedy happens that people would
immediately start blaming people who
dress or act anything related to ‘goth’.
Links to how people accuse Manson of being a
big part of the reason why the three girls killed
the nun.
This could mean that because another tragedy
happened, that they might start to blame him
again
Archive material

13. Manson is in a point of view shot from the audience
The graphics of the subtitles
underneath the image tell us the
lyrics to Manson’s song.
The lyrics suggest his own
personal beliefs that there is no
God and he will not follow what
everyone else who believes that
there is does.
These lyrics in particular could
portray why people thought that
he had a big influence over the
girls killing the nun as the girls
(who were big fans of Manson)
could have got the idea to kill a
nun from them.
Low key lighting suggests the darkness
over the topic of God, and how he
does not believe in such things
Manson is dressed as a pope, which makes the
audience
think things that are unnecessarily true. It
portrays him as disrespectful
Mise-en-scene, graphics, camera work

14. The choral music in the background
created a melancholic feel to what
was happening
The people presented in the image are not dressed as
Manson in contrast to the teenage fans of Marilyn. Their
facial expressions in this image represent the sadness
and how emotional they are at having to bury her.
It is a long mid shot of
people carrying a
coffin.
Mise-en-scene, sound, camera work

15. The graphics of subtitles at the
end tell us the conclusion to the
whole thing, the girls sentences
for their crimes.
In the background to the credits was the
sound of choral music which was a contrast to
Manson’s music. It made the audience feel
fear for what has happened .
The black background represents the
darkness of the crime that the girls have
committed. It signifies the death of the nun
and how she is now in darkness.
The black background makes the white
writing stand out which connotes how big of
a topic this documentary was about.
Graphics