That thing - Lara Croft

That Thing – Lara Croft

A screenshot of a Lara Croft game

Type of Documentary – Mixed

Themes

• Phenomenon of Lara Croft
• Representation of Women
• Power of the media
• Influencing peoples thoughts about the representation of women.

Narrative structure

• Closed narrative structure
• Non linear
• Single strand

Camerawork

Interviews

• left or right of the screen
• Eye line third of the way down the screen
• Close up/medium close up/big close up
• Low angle was used

Other sequences in the documentary

• The Barbie sequence was in extreme close up.
• Whips pans
• Tracking shot of the cyber cafe
• Extreme close up of keyboard and the screen.

Mise-En-Scene

• They use chroma key, chroma key is a green screen which is used in interviews to get a moving background.  In the interview it is out of focus to not distract attention from the interview.

Sound

• Voiceover

Calm

Clear

Male

Age 20’s

Someone who would of played the game when it came out.

Editing

• Cuts
• Interview of man on computer screen was filtered – he was the creator of the computer game so they put him in the computer
• Fast motion of man going up and downstairs in the cyber cafe.

Archive Material

• Tomb raider film
• Tombraider game