Genre analysis 'The 9/11 faker'

Narrative Structure
The documentary begins explaining/remembering the twin tower disaster and explains the tragedy. It then goes on to interview survivors of the tragedy and explains the programme they all put together to help them to get over it. The documentary starts to conclude with how it was a fraud and the truth coming out, then ending with how the woman allegedly committed suicide.

Camerawork
Still steady camera work used on interviews and own material to not annoy the audience, and handheld camera work is used on archive material, such as the news reports. Point of view camera work is also used when traveling down the road, the establish the road.

Mise-en-scene
A blurred background is used to the keep the focus on the interviewee, and also a dark room with light just on the interviewee, which keeps the audience intrigued as its unusual to see this on a documentary. A interview also takes place in a cafe, which reinforces the fact that they are still going about everyday life even after their ordeal.

Sound
The voice of God used is male to match the serious approach to the subject of the documentary. An actor is also to read out emails that are involved in the documentary.

Editing
Cutaways are used during interviews to reinforce the subject of the documentary and helps the audience to understand what is going on. The interviewees swap sides from one interview to another so that the audience can see that it's a different person's interview.

Archive Material
Videos from eye witnesses on the street when the disaster happened are used throughout the documentary, to remind the audience of the horror of the situation. News reports are used and politicians speeches that have been filmed by others for earlier reporting, to explain in more details to the audience. Still images of newspaper articles are also used in the documentary too to help the audience to understand.

Graphics
The name of the programme is under the interviewees name, to remind the audience of the documentary that they are watching.