Themes:
Music - The music industry and how you can be so sucessfull and prgoess, Meatloafs sucess
Fame- How famous meatloaf has become
Lifestyle- The busyness and the pressure of being famous, the constand busy schedule
Narrative Structure: The narrative structure is linear in this showing from how meatloaf's carreer has devloped. from beggining to now. It follows him all the way through showing his sucessfull highlights as a recording artist. However there is a part where it can be non liner too, this is where the nrrartive flashbacks to times in his eariler carreers.
Camerawork:
In the camera work for this docuemntry there are several clos up shots when talking about a certain thing that is intesnse and important especially when the narrtor dicusses out his career and passion for music, there is a close up when he says the word 'intimate', which has an impact of importance as there is a close up. This leading on to represent how he feels about the music.
Handheld camera is also involved in the camera work and because it is so uneasy and looks always rushed, and the atmospehre is busy, it can represent his busy lifestyle and his schedule. and how his carrer has progressed through time.
Mise En Scene:
In the interviews of the mise en scene the background is in a recording studie most of the time, and this relates to obviously the music carreer, and represents the theme well.
Also other interveiws take place 'on the go' there and then of whenever they get a chance to itnerview him, for exmaple on set or in his dressing room, and this can also represent again how much of a busy lifestlye he has as he is always doing soemthing focusing ahead on his career.
Sound:
In the background of the interviwes there are reconsigable music of meatloafs, that the audience can instantly reconisge.
There is instense music when it disucses about the new album realease and the mood of the music impact on how well it did ad the scuess whihc relates back to the theme of fame and success.
When meatloafs sonsgs play in the background the music is quiet and emotive, which
Editing: The eiditng techniques in this documentary mainly shows fast cutaways between shots during interviews to make it more visually interesting. For example showing cutaways of times in his career.
Another editing technique is dissolve, where they try and use a transition between each cutaway used.
Archive material:The arhcieve material shows a lot of footage about the song Bat out of hell, by meatloaf himself. In addition it uses archieve material of meatloaf in different magazines, and newspapers over the world which empathises of how successful and world wide his career has been.
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