The Devil Made Me Do ItA2 Media

Type of Documentary

• The devil made me do it is a mixed documentary. This is because it contains: interviews, reconstructions, archived material, observation and narration ect.

Themes

• The themes for ‘The Devil Made Me Do It’ include: good and evil, God and Devil, Music Industry.

Narrative Structure

• This documentary has a circular, with complex, narrative. This means that the documentary starts at the end and then flicks back to the beginning of the event and goes through how and what happened. This will hook the audience in right from the start and mean they’ll have full attention on the documentary.

Camerawork

• A lot of the camera work is hand held footage.• This is because a lot of the material is archived footage.• For example, there’s footage from Marilyn Manson gigs,

which is handheld footage, this is because you can’t have any other type of footage.

• This also gives the documentary a more natural feel instead of everything being scripted.

Mise-en-Scene

• For mise-en-scene they have a lot of religious motifs.• For example, having crosses in the background of the

interview over the persons shoulder.• This is to show that religion is an important factor in the

interview.

Sound

• The whole documentary is musically driven.• For example, The Devil Made Me Do It has a lot of

reconstructions, so they play emotive music that’s relevant with the scene. In the reconstruction of the girls killing the nun, they play music with a fast, tense tempo, this is to make the audience feel stressed and on edge to recreate the emotion of the act.

• This documentary has parallel sound, this is when there’s music that links in with what is happens in the scene.

• For example,

Editing

• The pace of the documentary changes depending on the scene and how they want you to feel at that time.

• For example, they increase the pace of the scene in moments such as: talking about the nuns death and in the reconstruction of the killing, this is to increase the intensity of the scene.

Archived Material

• A lot of archived material was used in The Devil Made Me Do It.

• For example all of the footage from Marilyn Manson gigs and concerts were archived material, the footage from the police going about the town where the nun was killed is also archived material.

Graphics

• This particular documentary doesn’t have a wide use of graphics. The only graphics for this documentary is the use of subtitles to translate the Italian speakers so everything is understood.

• Titles were the only other use of graphic, these were mainly lower thirds titles. In the bottom (right or left) section of the rule of thirds