This documentary focuses on the popular video game character Lara Croft and how she represented powerful female representation in gaming. It uses interviews and footage from the game to tell a non-linear narrative about Lara Croft's impact and how she demonstrated how gaming was becoming a significant part of youth culture. The documentary utilizes a variety of camera techniques like close-ups, tracking shots, and point-of-view shots along with editing styles like quick cutting to engage viewers visually and keep the story moving.

1. That Thing.. Lara Croft
By Rachael Holding

2. Type of Documentary
It was a mixed documentary, as it had achieve
material and original material such as
interviews.

3. Theme
• It’s a PC game, that shows the power of gender representation.
• It shows the change of gaming, and how it has became a big part of
many young people’s life.

4. Narrative Structure
• Closed and single strand documentary, this is because it only focus’s
one person (Lara Croft).
• It is also Non-Linear.
• There is all so no unanswered questions.

5. Camera Work
• The interviews were either big close ups or medium, they were all
so either to the left or right of the screen. This is the conversional
way of framing an interview, using the “third” rule.
• There was one main tracking shot of people playing the Lara Croft
game.
• There was a point of view shot going down into the cyber café.
• There were many panning and tilt shots, the use of many different
shots makes it more visually interesting.

6. Mise-en-scene
• When interviewing Toby Gard they but him into a computer
screen, as he created the character.
• They used a green screen to show the game behind the interviews
when they were been interviewed.
• Front projection was used in one the of the interviews on Catherine
Channnon.

7. Sound
• Background music was used through out the whole documentary, it
was electronic music which represents the game.
• Music went with the explosion.

8. Editing
• Quick cutting was used through out the documentary.
• Fast motion was used in the café.

9. Achieve Material
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Games footage.
Film footage.
Nike advert, magazine covers and websites.
An Angelina Jolie interview.

10. Graphics
• No capital letters were used, they were all lower.
• Anchors “That Thing”.
• The titles were simple in speech bubbles.