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THAT THING DOCUMENTARY

That thing documentary

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THAT THING DOCUMENTARY

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OVERVIEW

The That Thing documentary is a mixed documentary as it uses observation of the tomb raider video game, interviews with reviewers and creators and archive footage of the video game. The narrative structure is a linear structure as it starts at the beginning introducing the tomb raider video game and movie and then goes onto the reviews. The themes in the documentary are video games, Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, audiences, Creation of Lara Croft character in the game (body shape), impressions of her. There is a fast pace of editing used in the cutaways from the interviews and videos of the game have been edited behind the interviewee’s whilst they are speaking which makes the viewer more interested in the documentary.

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Interviewees framed to the left or right of the screen which is a code and convention of documentaries. In the screen grab where the interviewee is framed to the right it allows a view of the mise en scene in the background of Lara Croft in the video game which relates to the topic.

FRAMING AND MISE EN SCENE

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Graphics have been used in this documentary through the creation of the video game itself as it is shown to the viewer they can see the graphics of the video game. Also graphics have been used when putting the name below the interviewee and his part in the documentary in a smaller font underneath his name. The colour of the font is white so that it doesn’t take too much attention away from what is happening in the documentary and isn’t obtrusive.

GRAPHICS

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Close up’s and medium close up’s have been used in the documentary as they allow a clearer image of the interviewee and in this documentary also a better view of the Lara croft video game clips and movie clips in the background of the interview. This anchors meaning to what they are saying as the viewer can see what they are taking about in the clips. This relates to mise en scene as it shows the topic of the interviews which is Lara croft all the way through the documentary either in movie or video game form.

CAMERA AND MISE EN SCENE

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CUTAWAYSThe cutaways used in the documentary are mostly to the video game tomb raider and occasionally to other things such as Angelina Jolie in the movie tomb raider. This relates to the topic of the interviews and gives the viewer visual images of what is being spoken about which keeps them interested. Barbie dolls are shown when the interviewees are talking about Lara Crofts body shape in the video game and are comparing her to Barbie's.