2. TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY
Mixed:
As it contains archive footage, interviews and a
voiceover.
3. THEMES
• Lara Croft and video gaming
• Power of the media
• Representation of women
4. NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
• Single Stranded-focuses on the one topic
of the Lara Croft game
• Non-Linear
• Close-ended-questions are answered
• Narrator uses standard English
5. CAMERAWORK
• Interviews-stable camera is used.
• Medium close ups are used and so the
interviewee’s are clearly seen.
• Over the shoulder shot of people on the computer-
the camera sometimes zooms in to the computer
so the audience can see snippets of the game
• Pans are used one more than once occasion-allows
6. MISE-EN-SCENE
• Focuses on the game with it being the
topic of the documentary.
• Chroma key-footage of Lara Croft/game is
sometimes used as a backdrop for
interviews-anchors to the topic of the
documentary.
• Computer rooms feature in the cutaways.
7. SOUND
• Non-diagetic upbeat dance music-appeals
to the target audience
• Narrator/Voiceover-is a young male which
appears to the target audience of the
game
8. EDITING
• Cuts are used
Chroma key during some interviews
• Fast paced-represents the pace of the
game
• Only the interviewee’s answered are heard
and not the interviewer asking the
9. ARCHIVE MATERIAL
• Game footage
• Interview with Angelina Jolie
• Nike advert
10. GRAPHICS
• Title of the documentary
• Name of the people being interviewed
