The Devil Made Me Do It

Analysis by Gina Rimmer

Type of Documentary

• The Devil Made Me Do It is mixed- because it has a variety of everything, it has interviews, It has narration – off screen voice over, it has observation, editing and self reflective.

• There are interviews with the ‘devil’.• Interviews with family members.• Voice over for most of the documentary.• English voice over when interviews with

native speakers.• Off screen voice over of the girls

statements.• Self- reflective when the ‘devil’ talks.• Live footage from his concerts.

Themes

• Satin• good vs Evil• God vs Devil• Murder• Religion• Music Industry• Parental Control

Narrative Structure

The way the information is given to us. It has elements of a complex narrative, but mainly a circler narrative because it starts and ends with the same story and during it goes back in history. This means as the audience we are told about the nun dying, but then are taken back in time to why and how this came to happen and then it brings us back to the nun dying, by showing the nuns funeral.

• Rule of 3rd shot when interviewing the ‘devil’.

• Hand held camera for live footage from his concerts.

• Publicity by the media.• The camera follows Marilyn Manson

around all over the place.

Camerawork

Mis-en-scene

• Low key light (backstage gigs)• Crosses• Bibles• Religious • Dark colour makeup around the eyes

and lips and completely pale white face• Crazy black hair• Black clothing

• Music (Marilyn Manson)• Live audio• Screaming fans• Emotive music • Parallel Sound

Sound

Editing

• Pace, this is the fast or slow way editors edit footage together, so it might be fast pace of editing for the live footage of a concert but slow for an interview

• Cut transition is where the editor decides to cut the take of footage and place another piece in.

• Cut away (A Roll, B Roll) is where the editor cuts away from one thing to something completely different or is in relation to what someone has just said in the footage beforehand, eg if Marilyn Manson was in an interview and made a point of saying he loves his fans, the editor may decide to cut to a photo or a live footage of the fans and then back to the interview.

Archive Material

• This means it has already been filmed and the editors have chosen to use it. Concert footage, would have been recorded when he was in Rome dressing up as the pope.

• Detective work when the trial was going on someone would have videoed the police.

• The nun’s funeral would have been recorded when it happened.

Graphics

• Titles • Lower thirds titling

Other notes I have made

• Apparently the village is boring for teens so they feel they have to scare people

• The girls self-harmed before the murder• The girls looked ‘normal’• Marilyn Manson blamed the teenager’s parents

and claimed to be a better parent than them as he apparently listens to the fans problems and tries to help them.

• This is not the first time Marilyn Manson has been the problem for some action taken place by teenagers.