The Music Biz

Type of Documentary
The Music Biz is a mixed type of documentary, it contains archive footage, cutaways, stills and interviews.

Themes
It is generally about the music industry, in particular the competitiveness, marketing, marketing of a person and the success.

Narrative Structure
It uses a linear narrative, where we were introduced to Meatloaf as an artist. The audience is then led onto the the problem of the industry, the competitiveness. In the middle of the documentary, conflict is represented, however the problems are dated. It ends with how Meatloaf overcame the problems and became a profitable artist again.

Camerawork
The use of extreme close ups on Meatloaf's face are used along with camera tracking so that the audience becomes the eye witness. In addition, head and shoulder shots of people being interviewed are also used, along with low camera angles for the director.

Mise-en-scene
The is always mise-en-scene to do with music. For example there is the actual footage from Meatloaf's video shoot, there are CD's and vinyls in order to put across the theme and anchor meaning.

Sound
Meatloaf's backing tracks are used as they are relevant to the documentary, they achor the meaning and they also keep the theme running. In the interviews digetic sound is used.

Editing
The shot-reverse-shot is used between meat loaf and the director. There is also a montage of lyrics at the beginning of the documentary.

Archive Material
To reinforce the point of the narrative and show the audience how Meatloaf struggled, music videos, Brits, T.O.T.P, Grammies and radio stations footage was used.

Graphics
The Music Bix logo is shown with a black strip to make it stand out. Also the people shown have graphics to the left or right, these are only plain white as not to detract from the person shown.