Type of Docuemtary: Mixed, focus on voice over and interview, use of narrator, and small parts of voice over, evidence used Film industry, Info-tainment.
Themes: Feminism (post feminism), media's effect on how people are stereotyped, media products, how humans struggle to deal with reality and fiction.
Narratve Structure: Begining - Introduced to Lara Croft and the game (Toom Raider). Middle: People fantasising about her, her breats shown as big as that is what men believe is 'sexy', and shown as a role model. End - Concluded, game is sucessful, character celebrated as role model for both men and women.
Camerawork: Over shoulder shots of people playing the game, big close ups on game but not in interviews. Canted angle shots of character in game. Mid shot interviews with main people and clever camera work as maker of the game seems to be in cyber space himself. Game shots heavily used.
Mise en Scene: Relevent, very dark inviroments, people looking like they are part of the computer game themselvs, Expert analysis on subjetcs and creator of game also involved with documentary.
Sound: Lots of music underneeth documentary, Madona also Techno music used and also general game sounds, Leads audience in a certain way, natural sound used in interviews.
Editing: Fast pased editing, Shows playing of the game, people reaction to whats happening on the game and then back to the game itself. Fast actions like thiese keep the audience interested as its sort of like an action sequence.
Archive material: Game + Film achive footage used, although very little used throught documentary.
Graphics: Explains who people were, Gimmics, and the man in the lap top, creating even more emphesis on the power of cyber space.
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