Genre Analysis - Public Enemy Number 1: The Devil Made Me Do It

 Public Enemy Number 1: The Devil Made Me Do It

Type of documentary: Mixed

Themes: Devil worship, crime/murder/investigation, religion, youth of today, power of the media (can the media influence an individuals behaviour?)

This image of Marilyn Manson connotes some of the themes present in the documentary.

Narrative structure: Non linear, open narrative
Camera work:

• Interviews - medium close up/close up, framed left or right, eye line is 1/3 of the way down the screen. Certain shots of Marilyn Manson are low angle which create a sense of power.
  
• Hand camera work - Man selling poster (not prearranged).
  
• Two shot
  
• Point of view - a fan in the crowds at Manson concert.
  
• Point of view/over the shoulder tracking the inspector.
  
• Stock footage - close up of faces to show things such as reactions and emotions, church's, religious iconography, crosses, church steeples etc.
  
• Low & high angle.
  
• Tracking - police inspector upstairs, Manson walking through Rome (hand held).
  
• Zoom on things such as still's and newspapers.
  
• Crane shot on the stock footage of a cemetery.
  
• Establishing shot
  
• Birds eye view
  
• Manson press conference - shot of the camera screen shows us that the documentary staff are not with the press, they are merely observing.
  

Mise en scene:

• The cap of the police officer in an interview is placed in such a place that it looks large, and prominent.
  
• Isolated nun
  
• Guy in a graveyard
  
• Focus was on the most outrageous fans.
  
• Lighting: Very dark, orange, blue glow (this gives a very mystical feeling).
  
• One the low angle half of Manson's face is dark and half is light (good & evil).
  

Sound:

• Voice over - male, standard English, calm delivery. The narrator is the glue that holds the narrative together.
  
• Translator - these were the same gender and roughly the same age as the person speaking.
  
• Manson's music
  
• Orchestral, religious music
  
• "I spend a lot more time talking to them than you do"
  
• The music at times jars with the images being shown (juxtaposition)
  

Editing:

• Cut
  
• Talking about being bored, teamed with slow music and men standing around looking 'bored'
  
• We don't see the priests interview - it was filmed with him driving along empty desolate roads
  
• Orchestral music is over laid at the Manson concert (juxtaposition). "Satanic rock"
  

Archive material:

• News footage: nuns funeral, police etc


• TV talk show


• Manson video's


• websites


• still images (of girls and fans etc)
  

Graphics:

• Names of people in the bottom corner of the screen. This is framed either left or right and tells us who the person is and their relevance to the documentary. This was in white sans serif font.


• Title - Gothic text, using a crucifix as opposed to the letter "T"
  
• White text - closed the narrative of the trial, anchored the audio, credits scrolling up screen, dates, location and period of time.
  
  
  
  

This is an extract of the documentary i analysed.