BBC: Osama Bin Laden; dead or alive? documentary

Narrative Structure

Women Voiceover


Archive Material
-Footage of army men
-Footage of the Afghan army

-Blurred footage of Bin Laden

-Video messages from Bin Laden

-Footage of president Bush

-Explosions

Themes

-Terrorism

Sound

-Explosions

-Narrator

-Intense upbeat music playing in the background of the documentary

-Qoutes from different people over images of Bin Laden.
-Music in some backgroiunds of the interviews.
-Helicopters
-Army men running
-Bin Laden talking in the background
-Planes
-Cars
-Computers
-Person who last seen Osam Bin Laden walking. (Goes by the name Dolton Furray.)


Camerawork
-Close up on interviews , on faces.
-Interview with Asif Ali the president of Pakistan, zooms into his face slowly.
-Establishing shot of a room where one person is being interviewd (the person who last saw Bin Laden.)
-Nightvison of army men.
-Close up of the Afghan army.
-Establishing shot of Washington - President Bush's house.
-Extreme close up of Ambassader Hank Cromptons eyes, then goes into just a close up whilst talking in the interview.
-Establishing shots of mountains.


Graphics
-White bold wrighting with a black background at the start of the documentary saying what the documentary is.
-Light green floresent sharp wrighting of 'Osama Bin Laden: Dead or alive?' with a navy blue background. Shown as if it was being typed on a computer.
-White bold wrighting of names of people who are being interviewed.


Editing
-At the start after saying what the documentary is about it cuts into loads of images of Bin Laden on t.v.s.
-Images of Bin Laden disolve into images of 9/11.
-Blurred footage of Bin Laden.
-Computerized wrighting typed like how you would type on a computer showing what the documentary is called.
-Blacks out a persons face who's being interiewd who can't be shown.
-An image blurs and fades out at the same time.
-Animated map with a voiceover - zooms into where Bin Laden was last seen.