This documentary examines the murder of three girls and a nun, and how heavy metal musician Marilyn Manson's music was blamed for influencing the crimes. It uses interviews, narration, and archive footage to explore the themes of religion, crime, youth culture, and the power of media influence. The documentary has a linear narrative structure, recounting the murder and the accusations against Manson. It employs a variety of camera work, including reconstructions, and strategic use of mise-en-scene and sound design to portray different perspectives on the crimes and their context.

1. The Devil Made Me Do It
Type of documentary- This documentary is mixed as it uses lots of
interviews, full narration and archive material.

2. Themes
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The main themes of this documentary are:
Religion
Crime
Youth Culture
Murder
Good Vs Evil
Role Models
Power of the Media

3. Narrative Structure
• This documentary has a linear narrative structure, it relived
the murder incident of 3 girls and a nun and how it was
resolved. Marylyn Manson was blamed for his explicit music
expressing his hate for god and stating that he was the Devil.
He had many fans and some extremist fans. The fans listened
to Manson and respected his opinion on religion, that much
so that the listened to him over their parents. His
performances influenced his fans so much that it was thought
that he was what drove the 3 girls to murder an innocent nun.

4. Camera Work
• The camera work in this documentary is very artistic; this
means they use a lot of different angles to set the scene.
Many reconstructions are used in this documentary as they do
not have original footage of what happened, this gives the
audience a clue as to what it would have looked like in the
same environment and situation.

5. Mise-en-Scene
• The mise-en-scene in this documentary has a massive impact on
people’s opinions. They have used surrounding that suit each part
of the doc, such as churches, city lights etc. An example of the miseen-scene is how youths are portrayed to the audience. The
interview with tree youths shows a male lay slouched on a bed with
two girls around him looking as if they do not care about the
incident, also they are smoking and generally don’t look like they
should in an interview situation. This paints a bad picture of youths
in general and people will have seen the stereotype of teenagers,
lazy, careless, dangerous ad rude. The use of religious paraphernalia
tells the story without any real footage of the murder or what
actually happened.

6. Sound
• In this documentary they used many different types of music
to set the environment in a particular scene. The two main
music themes were religious songs, church bells etc. The
second was dark rock music, such as Marylyn Manson’s music.
They focused on lyrics of Marylyn’s music which linked in to
the murder investigation as he was a big influence on the
youths at this time. In parts of the documentary such as the
recreation of the murder scene, the used voice over of the
girls confessing, almost as if they were narrating what was
happening.

7. Editing
• The editing in this documentary uses slow paced ad faced
paced editing. Slow paced for scenes involved the murder
scene, and fast paced when watching archive material of
Marilyn Manson’s concert. They have used long takes when
showing reconstructions of the murder to add effect. The
editing used during the investigation was slow paced because
the investigation was difficult and took a long time to solve.
They used cutaways in the interviews to switch from person to
person and hear each of their opinions all at once to give an
overall opinion to the audience.

8. Archive Material
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The main forms of archive footage in this documentary are:
Concert footage (Marilyn Manson)
Newspaper articles
Music videos ( Marilyn Manson)
Talk shows/ News shows
Female murderers confessions (audio)
Funeral footage
Scenery footage

9. Graphics
• The graphics used in this documentary are basically used to
give you information that the actual footage will not give
clearly enough. Some of the graphics used are:
• Dates and locations appearing on the screen
• Lyrics to Marilyn’s songs
• Subtitles (translations)
• The title of the documentary
• The name of an interviewee and their relevance to the topic
• Graphics that close the narrative