I began with Jesy Nelson's 'Odd One Out' as I had already seen this when it was released back in September, and it really stuck with me. The producers encouraged the audience to really understand how she was feeling, and emphasise moments of emotional climax just through production.
I am really fascinated by this and decided to watch the first 3 minutes of the documentary, writing down all the shots, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, and other interesting aspects.
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- Wide shot - inside her house with background BTS noise
- Extreme close up (object in house) - music rises and continues
- Moving camera onto Jesy - filmed like on a handheld device, making it less formal
- Zooms onto Nelsons face - highlighting she is the 'star' of the documentary
- New angle - wide shot, still on Nelson, then zooms in making it a mid shot
- New location (Kitchen) and voiceover begins, still with soft, low music in the background
- Camera still following Nelson, walking around her house - again, less formal and makes the audience feel like they are involved and getting an insight as it is behind the scenes of filming
- Now have the video sounds, music and a voiceover all at once
- Voiceover continuing, but now we see the voice is from an interview (mid shot/close up of Nelson)
- Shows short clip of interview
- Emphasising the emotion - even this early on in the documentary
- Now in car - side mirror shot
- Close up of Nelson's face
- Lights on road - blurry - makes the audience pay more attention to Nelson's voiceover speaking
- Talking about social media - filming nelson on phone
- Twitter video - like a screen recording of multiple messages she had recieved
- Another new location on pier- dolly shot as it expands the view from a wide shot of just Nelson now to the entire pier
- Filled the space around her with text - comments linking to what she's saying
- Back to interview - short clip
- Throwback photo of Nelson - showing trauma she went through with paparazzi photo of her clearly upset and scared
- Now throwback video - her with bandmates - again emphasising emotion
- Point of view shot of outside from inside moving train
- Now see Nelson looking out of the window (as if previous shot was her sight)
- Clip of YouTube news embedded - talking about her
- Behind the scenes filming of music video - 2 close up shots of her from different moments in different locations, then close up of camera filming her, then wide shot of her again
- Back to interview with her upset (still voiceover voice)
- New location - Filming behind Nelson (back of her head) following her into a room of people
- Wide and mid shots of her hugging these people - audience have not yet met them
- Voiceover stops when sound from the videos starts - however, music is still continuous
- New location - Tracking shot through trees of woods
- Now tracking shot infront of her walking through the woods
- Voiceover stops
- As music comes to an end - main title of documentary appears (being typed out like on twitter - same format as previously with the cyber bullying comments)
- Music stops
- Now happy baby videos of Nelson begin to play, contrasting with the previous emotional and dark introduction
- Baby videos - starting from the beginning of her life
All of the 'throwback' style videos work together to show the audience things that they had never seen before. Like the video of Nelson with her bandmate Perrie was filmed backstage before a show. You would never notice the hurt and insecurities Nelson had as it's all concealed when she's performing. I think that this documentary is extremely powerful and not only gives the audience an insight to her life, but also makes them think more deeply about how what you can say really can impact people a lot - even if it is just one comment online.
I also watched a documentary of Stacey Dooley inside a psychiatric ward and found that both this and Jesy Nelson's, although they have different ideas and meanings behind them, they are filmed similarly. Within the first 3 minutes of each of them, they both provide the audience with an insight of what they are going to be seeing throughout the documentary, giving small clips from different parts. This should be able to interest them more and lets them see the style of the documentary and the sort of things they are about to see.
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