The 9/11 documentary uses a nonlinear narrative structure and ominous music to convey the seriousness of the topic without a happy resolution. Mise-en-scene encrypts the fear and conventions by cutting between the twin towers, a mosque, and the White House. Camerawork includes high angle shots of explosives to show their power and long shots of planes at airports to indicate potential disaster. Specific sounds are used for different parts, like cultural music and ambient noises when discussing al-Qaeda. Editing employs a narrator, reenactments, and "day in the life" footage to tell the story and make the audience feel the emotion of that day. Archive footage and minimal graphics are utilized due to the documentary being produced after

1. 9/11
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3. • The narrative structure the 9/11 Documentary is nonlinear because the topic of the documentary is very
serious and doesn’t necessarily have an outcome or a
happy ending, there is also just the one narrative speaker
throughout the documentary which has a low deep voice
along with diegetic sound of creepy music, which denotes
fear and danger to the documentary.
Narrative structure

4. • The documentary uses good mise en scene to encrypt the
fear and conventions of the topic, for instance, the camera
will fade from the twin towers, to an Islamic mosque,
which was the religion of the terrorists, the camerawork
will then to different mise en scene of the white house
which encrypts the government and the threat, anger,
emotion and mess they have to encounter. There is alo
many cutaways of the streets of New York with the
people, to alliterate the fear they have for their country
and fellow people, which connotes negativity on the
topic.
Mise en scene

5. • Camera work included; a high angle shot of explosives, to alliterate
how dangerous and powerful they are, followed by a longshot of
planes at the airport to denote how big they are how disastrous it
would be if anything were to happen, a hand cam shot of passengers
on a plane asleep to connote how weak they are comparing to the
terrorists. On the plane there was also a very high angle shot of the
land below to connote how powerful they are higher above how
small the land below looks, also on the interviews with the police in
the documentary they used a close up rule of thirds shot and a blurred
dark background, so the audience focus on the police officer. There
was also a wide angle helicopter shot of New York, to denote the
beauty, peace and how harmless the world trade centre was which
makes the viewers feel emotional towards the documentary and gives
of the feeling the creator may have wanted.
Camerawork

6. • The documentary uses specific topic styled sound for
each part of the documentary, for example, when the part
of the documentary is in al-Qaida, the cultural music of
al-Qaida starts, along with sounds of the east, such as non
diegetic speakers of al-Qaida, and camel trots. Along with
a zoom out shot of a wanted poster of a terrorist, the
sound then makes ambient noises of sine shivering
sounds that connote dear, danger and terror.
Sound

7. • The editing includes a voice of God narration, that tells
the whole story, also, the documentary features, ’day in
the life editing’, which encrypts the camera following the
subject which gives the subject connotations of authority,
as someone with importance to the story about 9/11.
There is also an amount of reanactment footage of inside
the world trade centre on the grim day of 9/11, where it
shows almost an identical replay inside of what actually
happened when the plane hit the tower, hitting the
audience hard with emotion from this specific editing.
Editing

8. • The documentary used many shots of archive footage of
the world trade centre and New York city, as the
documentary was published in 2006, and 9/11 happened
in 2001, meaning the documentary had to include a
certain amount of footage they were unable to take.
• The graphics within the documentary is kept very
minimal and only little are used to introduce certain
people, most interviewee’s are introduced through sound
instead of graphics.
Graphics/archive