3. The documentary is single
stranded as Kenny Rogers is
the sole focus as other
people explore events that
have happened in his life.
Circular narrative type
happens in the documentary
by starting at where Kenny
Rogers is now and then goes
back through his life all the
way back to the present day.
The narrative has closure
because it finishes with where
Kenny Roger’s is now and his
family and musical events are
all wrapped up.
4. The interview setup is
very conventional for
documentaries.
The interviewee is positioned to
the side of the camera using the
rule of thirds technique. An
example of this is the interviews
with Lionel Richie.
Close up/ medium close ups are
used so the audience can see
there facial expressions.
There is no direct from the
interviewee as if they are
looking at someone behind
the camera.
The interviewee is eyelevel
with the camera.
6. MISE-EN-SCENE
The mise-en-scene is very
relevant to the topic during
the observational footage as
they usually consist of musical
instruments being played.
They also linked to family life
when the documentary was
talking about that it, there was
observational footage of
Kenny playing table tennis
with his kids.
For the interviews. The mise-en-scene is
relevant for the person and what they do.
E.g. Kim Carne is sat in front of a piano
because she is a singer songwriter.
David foster is a music producer and
therefore is sat in front of Grammys and a
piano.
Other examples of
relevant mise en scene:
• Crowds
• Instruments
• Stages
• Musical iconography like
guitars.
• Nashville when they are
talking about country
music.
• Pictures that Kenny had
taken when talking about
his photography.
7. SOUND.
Incidental music when they
were talking about Kenny’s
early life, the music is from that
time whilst archive images of
Kenny’s early life.
Relevant non-diegetic Kenny
Roger’s music is played in the
background because the
documentary is about Kenny
Rogers.
8. EDITING.
The cuts are mainly straight cuts between
shots. This creates a meaningful
progression for the audience.
Cut always between interview
footage such as when Kenny is
talking about his family life, the
screen cuts to a shot of Kenny
playing table tennis with his two
sons.
Montages between interviews
and during narration of archive
footage/ pictures or
observational footage.
Fades to white are used when the
narrator changes the sub-topic of
conversation, e.g. it is used when
Kenny was having troubled times
with hardly any money, then a fade
to white, when it comes up it shows
his huge rise to fame.
9. Archive.
There is a lot of archive images in this
documentary, this is because it is of the
life of someone and the archive footage
are videos of Kenny playing live and
images of him in his band.
An example of archive footage
used in the documentary is an
image of Kenny playing at
Glastonbury which is relevant
to the documentary as it is a
cutaways from an interview
with Kenny talking about the
festival.
10. Graphics
There are graphics of the names
of the interviewee. Underneath it
will have their relevance to topic.
The name is bigger and the text
underneath is smaller.
An example of graphics for
interviewees are Robert Offerman
(country music specialist) Kim
Carnes (singer songwriter).
Experts in the field of topic.
Other graphics used is the title of
the documentary.
But the title screen between
adverts not visible in this
documentary because the BBC
don’t have adverts.
