Type Of Documentary : Mixed
Themes : Music, Meatloaf, Marketing Music, Money, Celebrity
Narrative Structure : At the beginning we see conflict as meatloaf wants to relaunch himself and we see the documentary talking about the music business. In the middle we see how the marketing team have spent too much money on relaunching meatloaf and we see him try and relaunch himself in the middle as we see him promoting his new single in many different ways with interviews, performances, concerts and TV appearances. At the end we see how the marketing team's work and meatloaf work has paid off as he gets to number one and manages to stay there for eight weeks and he also wins a Grammy award so we can see how the money used to try and relaunch himself has paid off.
Camerawork : Close up shots are mainly used to show a person of importance such as Micheal bay, when he is on the screen close up shots are used to show him and during the interviews medium close up shots have also been used.
The camera has interaction with the people in the documentary as when you see a person shake there head the camera shakes itself as well. Medium close up shots have been used when we see the starts collecting there awards at the grammy's to also how importance. Zoom shots have also been used when the camera is establishing a location.
Mise-En-Scene : All the interviews in the documentary have been based around a blue/green screen with relevant background images related to meatloaf and to what is being said on the documentary to create meaning behind it. Lots of the filming has been taken place on location such as music video's award ceremonies and past concerts , the makers of the documentary have done this to show how much work there is behind getting a number one and relaunching an artist, The documentary also films a lot in LA and London as the industry places are in London .
Sound : There is lots of natural sound used in the interviews from the background sound. There is diegetic sound used at a complex part of the documentary as narration is used on top of the documentary. Soundtracks are used over the top of the documentary and the tracks are from the charts at the time to make the audience aware of the competition and meat loaf's track was constantly repeated over the top of the documentary. There is natural sound also used from the press conference. Sound effects have been used when the camera shows us poster of meatloaf as a heartbeat sound effect has been used in the background to add emphasise the importance of getting to number one in the charts.
Editing : There is a shot reverse shot used when showing Micheal bay and meatloaf to show a power struggle and raise the question of who is more important . Lots of different cut away shots have been used to reinforce what was been said in the documentary at the time. There is fast pace editing used at the beginning to give you conflict between the marketing people , some dissolves have also been used in the documentary.
Archive Material : Archive material is used in the documentary to create evidence to what is been said as we may see an interview of someong taling about meatloaf and then it will cut to something relevant to what is been said. Archive material was used throughout the documentary in the form of interviews, awards, music video's both of the village people and meatloaf to show the conflict and competition between them. Other archive material used is from meatloafs concert's and the grammy awards where we see meatloaf win a grammy to show us how his har work has paid off.
Graphics : The graphics in the documentary are very simple graphics used to introduce somebody they are white and at the bottom of the screen, the graphics tell us the persons name and there job. There is also graphics used in the form of a magazine cover with meatloaf on it.
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