Genre analysis 'That Thing- Lara Croft'

Type of documentary
Expository

Narrative structure
The documentary starts with introducing the audience to the video game, and it then progresses on to compare the character to barbie. The documentary finishes with the success of the game.

Mise en scene
The game being played is used as the mis en scene, and this is done by the use of blue/green screen with the game put on in the editing process.

Sound
The tune off the game is used whilst interviewing and the male voice over matches the target audience of th documentary.

Editing
The editing of the documentary is fast paced and action packed, by use of lots of short clips one after the other, which symbolises the fast pace of the video game. Blue/green screens are also used on the talking head interviews so that they can change the mise en scene to match the documentary well. Cutaways of the video game are also used, which help to illustrate the points put across in the documentary.

Archive material
Game and film footage are used in the documentary that help the audience to understand the voice over and/or interviewees.