Lara Croft

Type of Documentary: This documentary is fully narrated and is also mixed documentary with a combination of interviews and narration shows visuals on screen.

Themes: The affect the lara croft games has on the audience. This has a theme of representation women. It is the influence of media that has the affect of audiences and how tehy feel. Other themes include feminism, gender and youth.

Narrative structure: It is a closed narrative structure as it has an ending. This is also non-linear and single strand documentary.

Camerawork: Camera is to the right or left of the screen during interviews. A tilted shot of an interview takes place in this documentary which is affective because it connotes the game being played on a computer. An extreme close up is used when Lara Croft is being interviewed. Point of view shots are used when in the cyber cafe. A variety of different shot types are used.

Mise-en-scene: Chromakey is used for the background of the interviews, to show the game and to show the audience what the interviewee is talking about. The screen goes out of focus when the director wants the audience to focus on the interviewee. Cutaways are used throughout the documentary.

Sound: The music in the background when interviews are taking place is quite upbeat and fast pace and gives the audience a sence of the computer game. Voiceovers are used which are both male and female, and are also quite young which also connotes the audience for the game. Standard English is used by voiceovers and narrators.

Editing: The lighting is dark during interviews throughout this documentary. Cutaways of the game are used also. Quick cuts, fast pace and fast motion are also used to show the game to the audience. The director has super imposed the talking head onto the computer screen.

Archive material: Material from the actual computer game is used during the documentary. Archive is being used in the background when people are being interviewed. Footage from the internet and the Lara Croft films are also used. The Nike advert is also affective, and extracts from magazines and stills of magazines.

Graphics: Graphics of interviewees are used to show the audience who they are and their details and status. The graphics are always left aligned and in white sans serif font.