This documentary examines the 1970 killings in Cambodia known as "the killing fields." It uses interviews, observation, and archive footage to investigate why thousands of people were killed. The narrative structure follows the journalist's investigation from early unproductive stages to eventually revealing the deadly secrets. Camerawork includes establishing shots, low angles during interviews to show regret and sorrow, and handheld footage to intensify scenes of killings being described. The documentary explores Cambodia's cultural secrets and the journalist's efforts to uncover the truth about the massacres.

1. Voices from the Killing Fields Genre Analysis

2. Type of Documentary Mixed Narration: sometimes in front of the camera, sometimes off-screen voice (voice of God). Fly on the wall: unfolding a real event that happened. Self-reflective: speaks directly to documentary producer, acknowledges camera. Interviews & observation, interviewees.

6. Extreme close-ups of killers eyes – makes a sense of sinister but scared feelings (mixed emotions) also it is as of we are looking into what he is seen while he talks about the killings and what he did.

7. Handheld filming during man showing how he killed people by slitting throats ; shaky camera movements intensifies the scene into a panic mode & what it must have been like at the time.

9. Lighting – is mostly natural lighting (daylight) as it is all filmed outside/ on the move.

10. On one interview the lighting is darkened and the interviewees face is blacked out for identity safety; as he admits that she is scared she will be ‘put in chains’ if she reveals any secrets of her past.

12. Editing Speaking over cutaways, interviewees and narrator – used to emphasise the documentary. Elliptical editing: darkening an interviewee’s face for identity. Cross cutting: used from the filming of the documentary to actual footage that has been edited in.

13. Archive Footage Footage of… Leaders ‘Pol-Pott’ talking about the launch of the regime. Soldiers in uniform on duty (very old in black & white). War scenes, explosions from that region and the regime. The gate keeper editing/looking over recorded interviews. The revealing of the truth – why the killings happened. Khare Rouge and the Vietnamese meeting. Still images of older journalists back in their day.

14. Graphics English subtitles over Cambodian accent/language. Title of programme at the start & end of each commercial break. Credits at the end. No name plates on screen as names are revealed through subtitles. Text in white at the beginning tells a short introduction to the programme.

15. Question is re-visited at the end: Why did it take Nuon Chea (younger brother) three years for him to tell the journalist the truth? Top khmer reveals the truth about the killings.