Genre Analysis

The Illuminati

Camera

• Establishing shots
• Close ups
• B-Roll footage
• Rule of thirds
• Image montage
• Different angled interviews

Editing

• Archive footage
• CGI animation
• Superimposed flames
• Fast paced editing
• Cut aways
• Sound effects on kicking and word movement
• Text Overlays
• Overlaying two different shots of the interview, one is translucent in the background
• Subtitles instead of narration at times
• Edited panning

Mise-en-scene

• Interview backdrops
• Illuminati/ Free Mason paraphinallia
• Mysterious hooded figures during recreations, to represent the mystery around the Illumanti
• Talking Heads

Sound

• Archive voice overs
• Music 
• Narration (voice of God)
• Atmospheric Drones to emphasize certain words or images and to build suspense
• Archive voice overs from News Broadcasts

The Meth Epidemic Analysis

Camera:

• CU of meth paraphernalia
• B-Roll footage between interviews
• Abstract establishing shots
• Enhancing shot using soft focus of police lights signifying criminal activity.
• Hand Held footage during drug busts immerses the viewer to help put across the point.
• Rule of Thirds during interviews

Sound:

• Atmospheric Drone
• Sirens signify criminal activity
• Narrator - Voice of God
• Interview speech overlaps with B-roll

Editing:

• Cut aways to B-roll
• Cross-cutting (A/Broll)
• Massive emphasis on cut aways to enhance shots
• Text overlay for names and locations etc.

Mise-en-Scene:

• Talking heads
• Interview backdrops, workplace or outside
• Having drug users interviewed in police custody connotes the seriousness of the meth epidemic

The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special In 3D On Ice

Camera:

• Interviews applying the Rule of Thirds as part of their A-Roll footage
• Hand held footage from concerts and conventions used as B-roll footage
• Footage from on location, CU and LS of Simpsons paraphernalia
• Archive footage of scenes for the show
• Tracking shot of host walking down street
• Panning shots around rooms full of paraphernalia
• Mid shot of host interviewing Simpsons fans

Editing:

• Montage of scenes from 'The Simpsons' show
• Montage of different bands playing the theme tune
• Cross cutting between A/B-roll footage
• CGI animations
• Graphic and Text overlay on interviews and B-roll footage
• Timelapse

Mise-en-scene:

• Simpsons cutouts and themed backdrops for Interviews
• Interviews with people of power set in offices and places of work
• Physical Narrator
• Product Placement

Sound:

• Music
• Different renditions of the theme song
• Narrator (Voice of God)
• Narration from host on screen
• Interview speech over B-roll

Exit Through The Gift Shop



Camera:

• Heavy use of hand held footage
• Long shots of artists at work across the street
• CU of art
• Rule of Thirds
• Zoom in and Out
• Panning shots from rooftops
• Establishing shots from car windows

Editing:

• Montage of Street art clips
• Text Overlay
• Fast paced editing
• Montage of family life B-roll footage
• Pixelated faces to hide identity
• Black and white and sepia footage
• Edited zoom and pans of still images
• Archive footage

Sound:

• Muffled, distorted voice to hind Banksy's Identity
• Music 
• Narration (Voice of God)

Mise-en-scene:

• Interview backdrops
• Relevant pieces of street art in the background
• Mysterious lighting in Banksy's interviews to hide his face

Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe

Camera:

• Rule of thirds
• Heavy use of Archive footage
• Mid shots of people playing games 
• CU shots of arcade games and games in retail

Editing:

• Fast paced editing
• Montage on in-game footage
• CGI animation
• Visual comedic animations
• Text Overlay
• Static transitions between footage A/B-roll

Sound:

• Narration
• Game noises overlapped behind narration and interviews
• Sound bites cut from games, ie. swearing, damage sounds and gunfire
• Police sirens highlighted to signify criminal activity 

Mise-en-scene:

• Arcade machines in the background of narrator introducing the film
• Living room set as the background for the main narration, connotes the stereotypical gaming location
• Gaming paraphernalia scattered around the set
• Dull lighting representing the light from a TV screen

Pink Floyd: The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon

Camera:

• Archive footage
• Mid shot in the studio
• Tracking shot
• Rule of Thirds
• Footage from music videos
• Close up shots during 
• Different shots and angles of playing the instruments
• Panning from guitar to head when vocals enter

Editing:

• Montage of live  and studio footage
• Edited zoom on record
• Text overlay
• Panning on Still images
• Arranging different angles side by side 
• Images of documents

Sound:

• Music taken from the Album
• No narration, uses the different interviews over the A-B-roll footage
• Mixing and soloing different parts of the tracks to highlight certain parts
• Playing Live while discussing the parts they're playing

Mise-ens-scene:

• Musical instruments and technology in the interview backdrops
• Set up around the Mixing desk for interviews and examples