This documentary examines the identity of the "falling man" photographed during 9/11. It uses a nonlinear structure and interviews to investigate who he was. Camera work focuses on close-ups during interviews to elicit raw emotion. Mise-en-scene features interviewees in personal spaces to feel welcoming. Sound uses the national anthem, explosion sounds, and reading names to accentuate loss of life. Editing uses archive footage and images to emphasize the scale of destruction and commemoration ceremonies. Graphics are basic to not detract from the somber topic.

1. Emily Paris

2. Narrative Structure
It is a mixed documentary including achieve material,
interviews and a voice over.
It is non linear as it is not in chronological order as the
events unfold in front of the audience eyes as the
footage jumps around from before the terrorist attack
to after.
It is an open documentary as you are left with
unanswered questions as no one if definitely sure who
the falling man is.
It is a single strand documentary as it solely focuses on
the falling man and trying to find out who it is.
The theme of the documentary is 9/11 and findout out
who is the iconic falling man

3. Camera work
Camera work is conventional as it applies the rule of thirds technique where the eye
line directly lies in the intersects of interest within the frame, however there is not a
wide variety of camera shots most are close up or extreme close ups I believe this is
due to the severity of the subject matter and the stories the people involved tell
using these shots could make it more emotive as we are a little closer to the raw
emotion of the interviewees.
One of the only long shots is a low angle panning shot which is looking at the world
trade centre place looking up at it and then it falls straight focuses on the gates and
then pans to a man wearing all black which symbolises remeberance

4. Mise en scene
Mise en scene most people interviewed where
dark clothes could be a mark of respect to
those who lost their lives.
The mise en scene on a lot of the interviews are
very personal such as in their house which
again is a clever technique by the
documentary makers as it makes it more real
and feel we know them and are welcomed by
them to hear their stories which definitely
makes the stories more emotive.

5. Sound
The use of sound is another very
emotive skill, they have the American
national anthem sung by children
and a choir featured within the
documentary while some stills of the
images of 9/11 show
At the end of the documentary the names of the dead are listed by the
friends and family of those who were lost this is archive material as it
isn’t sound the documentary makers got it was from the 9/11 memorial
again the length of the list which ultimately doesn't even end it just
fades with the credits the length accentuates how many lives were lost
again all the sound is added to make us feel and think certain things
and all anchors meaning
Another use of sound would be the sound of the explosions and the
sound of the crashes which are loud and played over footage and stills
of the day.

6. Editing
There is a low angle tilt shot and tilt shots are often used to show the vertical
significance of something which is why I believe it is used here because as it looks
up from the bottom to the very top of the famous building it makes it appear bigger
and taller which in turn emphasizes the large scale of a building being attacked
would have had after that the camera pans from the building to a man the only
medium long shot within the full documentary I believe a man wearing all black to be
used is to accentuate the respect still their and wearing black which has
connotations of mourning.
There is a montage of images from the paying respects sequence of the ceremony
that took place to commemorate the people who lost their lives, the effect of this
particularly montage really emphasizes the amount of lives effective by the incident
and the use of these shots one after another is very emotive.

7. Archive material
There is a constant use of archive throughout the documentary it is used to inform the
audience of the disaster itself because of the very nature of this particular subject
achieve material is inevitably a big part of this documentary as seeing the disaster
itself adds to the emotions the audience will feel whilst watching. Having the footage of
the towers being destroyed and then having an image of them before the event is a
very unusual use of ordering I believe having the pictures of the aftermath and then
being reminded of how they use to look almost makes it more emotional as we see the
devastation and then the calm to how it should have been without the plane crash.

8. Archive Material
The topic surrounds the
falling man which is only
known through a very famous
image captured by a
photographer so this is a
reoccurring use of achieve
material to anchor the man
being discussed the
relevance of 9/1. it is edited in
such a way so we zoom right
into the photo to get close up
and we also see pan and tilt
shots of it this is to reiterate
what happened to “the falling
Photos are also used when
speaking about the falling
man himself this makes the
audience feel more well
connected to him as they see
him as more than just the
image of him throwing himself
out of twin towers and when
they see pictures of him
smiling with his family it
makes his death more
emotional the documentary
makers are evoking emotions
by using all of the archive
Archive material of peoples
reactions are also used to
anchor the severity of
watching the trauma so we
hear points of view from
people seeing it as it
happened as well as people
reflecting upon what
happened.

9. Graphics
The Graphics within this documentary are very basic this is to not detract from the
topic itself, I would describe the graphics as sophisticated and gimmick free very
fitting to the subject matter and throughout the documentary it is carefully very
respectfully discussed.