B Y J A C O B C H I S N A L L

WHO AM I? KENDRICK LAMAR.

SUBJECT AND THEMES

• The subject of the documentary was the rapper

Kendrick Lamar and how he made it in the music

industry through years of learning and struggling

• It had themes of determination, never giving up,

learning and striving to achieve goals that you’ve

set yourself to become a better person.

STRUCTURE/NARRATIVE

• It began with a chronological story of his life

narrated by him saying how he learnt from the best

and developed his skills and how he started being

himself more to get noticed more, then it went on

to say how seriously he took it and how he spent

years of effort to get known and how he struggled

in his life due to the place that he grew up and

ends with his success and how he aims to get better

and what he wants to achieve in his life.

MISE EN SCENE

• The camera is frequently in black and white setting possibly showing the straight forward nature of his personality and that he’s not a complicated person but very basic and just like everybody else, the lighting casts a shadow across his face to create a sense of the unknown to his character to say that he’s not fully shown himself yet, he’s frequently shown with his prop a microphone to emphasise what he’s speaking about and where he is now and he’s always wearing very casual clothing to show he’s just the same person he was before he was famous.

CAMERA

• Has extreme close ups of his face from at the

beginning during the interview, it also zooms in from

a long shot to an extreme close up. Has lots of

dutch angle shots to maybe convey that he’s

complicated in the sense that he’s a had an odd

up-bringing and there’s plenty of things that are

mysterious about him. There’s a tilt from his shoes to

his face showing the simplicity of his clothing and

character.

EDITING AND SOUND

• There’s very fast editing between shots with images

fading into another to show how fast the time went

from older images to new.

• There’s non-diegetic sound of a cover of one of his

songs in a slow, emotional style by a woman, as well

as music played at the start on the piano to

introduce the documentary to introduce the

documentary as emotional and deep.

ARCHIVE MATERIAL AND STILLS

• There’s plenty of archive material showing things

such as him performing live and there’s still shots of

images of him as a child and places that he grew

up as well as images of people that inspired him to

strive to be better at what he does.