Cutting Edge: The 9/11 Faker.

Type of Documentary:

Mixed.

Themes:
Fraud, Events of the 9/11, Religion, Survivors, Investigation, Power of the Media.

Narrative Structure:

Non Linear- goes back to the past of different events from Tanya's experience.

Closed Narrative Structure.

Single Strand.

Camera-work:

Interviews- left or right of the frame, eye line third way down. Interviewee was filmed in close up or medium close up.

Zoom of still images- Tanya, American flag, 9/11 building,

Panning of church and people walking outside, the church is used for the survivors to share their experience.

Some images shown in out of focus.

Close up of somebody typing on the keyboard.

Cross cutting of builders reconstructing the sight- American flag shown on the tractors.

Zoom of 'The Surviving Network'.

Extreme close up of a hand writing- from Tanya's extract.

Tracking of the Politicians and Press.

Hand held camera- high angle- filming the press instead of being apart of it.

Medium close up of Tanya telling the press her experience.

Tracking shot of still images of the boy who didn't survive, nicknamed 'red bandanna man'.

Low angle of the twin towers.

Out of focus- long shot- of somebody buying a newspaper with Tanya's article.

Close up of a school in Barcelona, where Tanya was teaching/hiding instead of being in hospital.

Tilt shot of a picture revealing her real identity- not a US citizen.

Zoom out of some interviewee's.

Mise-en-scene:

The background of the Interviewee's was set in their own environment. For example; set at the interviewee's home or where they worked.

Chromakey background of news paper articles.

Sound:

Voiceover- standard English, older male could anchor Tanya's age.

Diegetic sound of people screaming.

Voiceover of Tanya reading her e-mail.

Music- tense.

Another voiceover of Tanya reading a different e-mail about the press conference, seemed excited about it.

Sound effects- camera flash and camera sound conveying the press.

Voice over of a news report reader.

Editing:

Cross cutting is the most common element of a documentary.

Flashbacks of traffic during rush hour etc.

Also fast motion was used during another clip of the traffic in New York.

Two voice overs of Tanya and a news reporter reading out her e-mail.

Use images to tell the story.

Moving clip of Tanya and the press, froze to a still image.

Archive Material:

Clips of Tourists outside ground zero.

People playing music in a church, representing the 'red bandanna man' life, they do this every year.

Articles about Tanya being a fraud.

Cross cutting of different press wanting an interview.

Foreign news- her parents had gone to jail years ago in Barcelona for fraud.

Twin towers falling down.

People running around the streets screaming, firemen trying to help.

Two girls giving a speech and their dads funeral.

Firemen carrying out dead body bags.

Graphics:

White, Sans Serif, Capitals, Bold.

Name of the interviewee and why they are important to the documentary.