Secret Agent Analysis

So last night I watched a part of a documentary called The Secret Agent and it was about a man who was an undercover reporter and went to investigate The British National Party. This was a really useful documentary to watch because it is one that is very similar to my idea and the plot for my docufiction. The opening of the documentary consisted of a shot of a man who was on a hill with his dog which was to establish to the audience the story the main character. This probably isn’t an accurate way to describe what was shown because a documentary is about establishing an idea or subject and then getting under the skin of that topic so there is no plot or anything. Yet in the docufiction the establishment of the plot and the subject of the film will hopefully be expressed in a similar manner with Conrad being shown and the audience being able to pin point that Conrad is the central character and that the story is about him. Again there was this reoccurring use of voice over was also in the documentary so it will definitely be a feature in my docufiction. I think that the voice over is used to firstly establish what the film will be about and then it also helps to create distance between the action in the scene and the narrator so that it feels like the main subject is being analysed and people are finding what is going on. The next really useful feature of the documentary was that it showed cuts between news footage of the Bradford riots I think and the man who was  explaining what had happened which is also going to be a feature of the docufiction. There will be Conrad show talking to the camera man about what will happen and then there will be a news report so there will be a juxtaposition of shots used. Another thing that was in the documentary was that the reporter filmed himself at what was obviously at the end of the day when he was in bed and just talking plainly into the camera about the difficulties that he had encountered during that day and I think that I will have Conrad doing something similar.