Documentary analysis: Kidnapped and Drugged for family honour.

By Melissa Edwards

The programme ‘kidnapped and drugged for family honour’ is shown on BBC three, Monday 2nd July at 9.00pm. This could be because of the story line as it needs to be shown after the watershed as there is inappropriate language and images used throughout.

This documentary is mixed as there is use of interviews, observation, narration and found footage. This is to give the audience a variety of things to look at and listen to so they are always alert. Themes used in this documentary are murder, religion and family.

Narrative Structure

• Montage of police sirens, vans, offices and interview rooms.

• Interviews with police officers and crime investigators.

• Observation when arresting questioning all the family.

• Then at the end family are all charged.

Camera Work• Handheld camera work at the start to get the audiences attention as it makes you feel like your there. • Close up of the director of crime, which suggests his important’s of his role. • Extreme close up of Shanbana of her eyes and changes to her lips, at this point she is also bleary so it gives the audience something to focus on while she is talking. • There is also handheld camera work when Shanbana is getting interviewed by a police officer and it is an over the shoulder shot, so you can only see the police officer. •Medium close-up of interviewing a police officer in a car, this could suggest to the audience that something dramatic is about to happen.

Mise en scene

•Police station in there officers to show the audience this is an investigation •Interviewing police on the streets to show the audience that they are looking for them. •In a meeting room, showing the audience what they are deciding to do. •Outside the criminals/families house, to show the audience them getting arrested. •A hotel which the Shanbana safe house•Question room to show the audience what was said.

Sound • There was a narration “voice of god” • Non-diegetic sound is eerie and scary which tells

the audience that this is not a joke. • When the meeting is over the non-diegetic sound

builds up and creates more tension as they have solved the problem and about to arrest the criminals.

• Typing sounds when Shanbana is speaking to show that they are listening to every word to so if they is an evidence.

Editing

• Montage of police cells, sirens and interview rooms.

• Bleary face and voice of Shanbana as she does not want to be recognisable.

• Cut aways of outside a police station, cars, roads, lights, houses and hotels, these are all the locations of were the documentary is set.

• there is also cut ways of the time to show how long it has taken and how long they have left.

Archive Material

• Bleary person in a police cell • Arresting the family • In the safe house

Graphics

•Names of the police officers Subtitles of the interview with the brother, so it was clear to the audience