Voiceover Techniques & Shots Used In A Dub Documentary

Documentary Title: Deep Roots Music
This documentary is on a genre of music called 'Dub', I looked at this documentary and thought
that the director chose a excellent voice over, if you analyze it carefully you will see that the voice over has a authoritative tone, yet it also produces alot of information about the genre of music, for example the voice over describes what 'Dub' music is compelled together by, "dub is the instrumental riddim track, an unobstructed rhythm without words, with the emphasis on the base...sound effects and echo in particular are used alot." The voice over also adopts the language that goes with the stereotype or group of people that listen to the music, this is important as if we are going to be successful at creating a great documentary that our audience will be interested in, we need to be more connective towards our audience, that means adapting a voice or language that sounds like them.

Looking at the shots in the production also, you see that they get alot of medium close-up's of when the producers are working in the studio's with there team or group members, you also see the documentary use some medium shots of when the producer is messing around with the controls, this is important to us as we can implement this technique into our documentary because it allows the audience to get a better idea of how the musicians are at work, also uncovering the atmosphere that some producers and musicians work under. There is a key moment in the documentary where you see the three co-operatives dancing around and boping there heads, this shows how the music can affect the everyday lives of the typical people that listen to the genre of music 'Dub', it makes them all happy.



Vipesh