2. The Marketing Of Meatloaf is a single
strand, non-linear mixed documentary, and
makes use of voice over, observation, and
archive material.
3. The interviews included in this documentary all follow the
rule of thirds interview conventions, with the subject
slightly to the left or right of the screen.
However one interview, with the head of Virgin music, is
framed so that the subject is in the centre of the screen facing
left, instead of looking towards the audience; this may be an
attempt at a more interesting format.
Some interviews use Chroma key on the background to
digitally import and image of Meatloaf himself, or magazine
pages for example.
4. This documentary makes use of a wide variety of
camera shots including long shots, establishing
shot, medium close ups, extreme close ups etc.
Also, handheld camera footage is used, meaning
the action seen in the documentary is
unpredictable and so the cameraman has to record
it free hand instead of using a tripod. A POV shot
is briefly used whilst walking into to betting
shop, giving the perception of the viewer
completing the action.
5. A male, standard English voice over is used to
anchor the images onscreen; the backing music
used throughout ranges from the music of
Meatloaf, Madonna, The Village People, and
various other artists as the documentary
discusses the charts and the various artists in
them.
6. The documentary mainly uses simple cuts to change
scenes, meaning the attention is not drawn away from the
subject of the documentary; however a dissolve editing
technique is used on some interviews, dissolving the subject
in and out, creating a more visually interesting image.
A montage is also used showing Meatloaf at various
different press conferences, and an interesting editing
technique is used when Meatloaf is talking about the
different personas he has in interviews, which is shown
between images of newspaper headlines.
7. The only archive material used is footage of
Meatloaf concerts and music videos, and
sometimes there is footage of magazine and
newspaper articles and headings, using
pans, tilts and zooms to make them more
interesting.
8. The only use of graphics within this
documentary is during interviews, showing the
name of the subject, and their relevance to the
documentary; the font used is a simple, white
basic font.
