Documentary Analysis - One Inch Punch

Type of documentary: Mixed - observations, interviews, cutways, voice over.

Themes: Martial arts, film industry, fitness, will power, industrial revolution.

Narrative structure: Linear. Beginning, what is the one inch punch? Introduces Bruce Lee and the films he features in. How powerful is the one inch punch?
Middle, what effects it has at such a short distance. Damage of it.
Ending, the loss of interest in martial arts due to video games. How industrial revolution changed everything. Auidence are left to answer will it make it back to modern day?

Camerawork: Mid-shot of the person being interviewed. Alternative positions, left and right of the frame between two people. When guy is demostrating the one inch punch, his hand can be see doing it. Two shot of two people doing the one inch punch. Close-up of hand.

Mise-en-scene: Guy sat on the couch with martial art related trophies placed in the background pulling poses we'd normally associate with it. On location, in office.

Sound: Auidence sound effects of people cheering on the person peforming the one inch punch. Film sounds. Chinese-like music played near the credits, relating to the documentary.

Editing: Snapshot, almost as if someone has took an image using a polaroid camera when demostration is showed at the beginning. Slow upwards zoom on the image that has supposedly been taken. Disolves onto next frame. Same clip at the beginning is used at the end to link together and tie up the documentary.

Archieve material: Demostration from August showing the one inch punch in action. Image of Bruce Lee. Film in which Bruce Lee is in. Diagram of how the one inch punch works. Kill Bill footage. Video game footage.

Graphics: Basic white on black font, contrasts each other and can be read clearly. Simple font, doesn't relate to the subject matter. The name caption is put onto a transparent black strip with a white font so that the bottom half of the interviewer isn't blocked out. The proffesion is placed beneath the name.