'The Day the wave came' Tsunami Documentary

Narrative Structure

The narrorator was a male voiceover.


Archive Material
-Footage of the tsunami.
-Footage of the tide going out.
-Earthquake , hand held camera.
-houses being taken down by the rushing water.




Editing
- Cut aways from a persons interview to the archive material.
- Real foortage to a fade in image of an animated image.
- People in the interviews either positioned to the left or right.
-Logo - Journeyman.tv
-Fading, an image of an amintated earth is on the screen when a picture of how they believe the tsunami started fades over the top of it.

Sound

- Birds.

- Wind.
- The sea.
- Screaming.

- People talking in the background.

- Music in the background of some interviews, music which sounded like a heartbeat.

Camerawork
- Close up of people's faces who were being interviewed about the tsunami, with a high key lighting on the people being interviews faces and all the rest of the shot in a low key lighting.
- Establishing shot of the place.
- Birds eye view of the place and the damage caused by the tsunami.

Graphics

- Black backgroud whilst people being interview'd.

- Subtitles at the bottom of the screen for when the foreign people are being interviewd.

- Animated images of how the tsunami happened.