The 9/11 Faker

The 9/11 Faker

A clip from the '9/11 faker'

Type of Documentary – Mixed

Themes

• ·         Disaster
• ·         Real life
• ·         News

Narrative Structure

• ·         Circular
• ·         Open narrative
• ·         Linear

Camera work

• ·         Interviews

o   Conventional properties of interviews

o   Eye line third of the way down

o   Mid shot

o   Occasionally switches to close up

• ·         P.O.V of person driving
• ·         Tracking of offices
• ·         Extreme close up of reconstruction, adds mystery to Tanya
• ·         Focus on interviewee keeps the audience focused
• ·         Stock footage of ground zero
• ·         Zoom into photos
• ·         Extreme close up of writing, adds mystery.
• ·         Filmed reflection in glasses
• ·         Handheld camera of Tanya.
• ·         Two shot interview, also with occasional close up.

Mise-en-scene

• ·         Re-inaction of offices, smokey
• ·         Dark feel to the whole programme, shows dark subject
• ·         People walking round in the background of interviews, showing life in New York carries on.
• ·         Stock footage of people outside ground zero.
• ·         Documenter filming media, showing they don’t belong to them.

Sound

·         Tanya reading out email (reconstruction)

o   Woman

o   American accent

o   Shows tanyas emotions through the way she speaks.

·         Voiceover

o   Male

o   Standard English

o   Calm

• ·         Camera sounds, shows how much attention was on her.

Editing

• ·         Blue filter on stock footage
• ·         Interview with archive footage laid over.

Archive material

• ·         Archive footage of Tanya Head meeting mayor of new York
• ·         911 tower footage
• ·         Photos of Tanya
• ·         New York times article
• ·         Photos of Welles (victim of 911)
• ·         Spanish news footage

Graphics

• ·         White sans serif
• ·         Name and relation to the case on interviews
• ·         Title for documentary is similar.
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