Analyse of Kenny Rodgers:Cards on the table

1. KENNY RODGERS:
CARDS ONTHETABLE
By Jack Ettinger

2. Themes
Type Of Documentary
• Mixes
• Biographical
• Family and Friendship
• Determination
• Changing the music industry
• Success

3. Narrative structure
• Circular
• Open
• Single
• Non-Linear

4. Camera work
Interviews
• Medium close up
• Close up
• Shallow Depth of Field
• Off Centre (left and right)
• Follows rule of thirds
• Eyes third of the way down
• Pull focus
• Handheld camerawork
• Still images zoom in and out
• Pan and tilt
• Big close up
• Low angle
• Moving camera-Car
• Actuality Footage of performance

5. Mise-en-scene
• Pianos-Jukebox-Mixing desk
• Suits the genre
• Music-links to the interview topic
• Quiet room
• The footage-where he grew up-Empty streets
• Gambling-RouletteWheel

6. Sound
• Kenny Rodgers Music
• Gospel music
• Female voiceover
• Standard
• Calm
• Clear
• Links Different Together
• Introduces and summary

7. Editing
• Cut
• Red and yellow flashes, some still images
• Dissolve between still images
• Montage-Nashville
• Questions are edited out of interviews
• Cutaways were used to avoid jumps
• Zoom in and out

8. Archive material
• Vinyl
• Record covers
• Performances
• Small images
• Old photographs
• Gambler TV

9. Graphics
• Name
• Capitals
• Subline
• UTLC-Anchors Refinance
• White
• Serif font
• Ranged left or right of the
screen
• Simple easy to read