Dying for a bargain.

Analysis of a documentary.

Type of Documentary:

• This documentary is an Mixed documentary as it includes; archive footage, interviews, and narration.

Themes within the documentary:

• The themes within this documentary are how cheap clothing is produced and the risks involved for the workers that create cheap clothing.

Narrative Structure:

• Beginning: At the start of the documentary we find out about the clothing industry and what risks and working conditions the works are in.

• Middle: During the middle of the documentary we see what the Uks priorities are when it comes to the conditions of how clothes are produced in Bangladeshi.

• End: Towards the end of the documentary we see how the Uk retailers react to the conditions that there clothes are being produced in.

Camera Work:

• Medium close ups are used for interview footage.

• There are parts of this documentary which are filmed in handheld when they are filming undercover.

• A tilt shot is used at the start of the documentary showing a collapsed building that clothing was being produced in.

Mise-en-scene:

• All of the interviews take place in relevent locations during this documentary.

• At the start of the documentary the narrator is talking to the camera and behind there is the high street.

• The interviews that take place on this documentary are recorded near when the locals work and the factories that they work in.

Sound:

• Narration is used thoughout this documentary.• Simple non-diegetic music is used as

background noise during the intro sequence as well during montages of clips of the high street.

Editing:

• Simple cuts are used though out this documetnary.

• A montage is included at the start with clips of people shopping and walking down the high street to set the theme of the documentary, A clip is also sped up during the montage to show the amount of people that shop.

Archive Material:• Archive material of clothing adverts is used to

show how the UK companies market the clothes that are produced in 3rd world countries.

• Also archive footage of one of the building on fire is used to show the devastation caused by poor working conditions and the risks involved.

Graphics:

• Simple plain white graphics are used during the title screen.

• Subtitles are also used (White text, on black background) when foreign people are speaking so the audience can understand what the are saying.