Task 2.1 - Documentary: A very British gangster-analysis by Lukas

Documentary Analysis part 2

This documentary is by Donal Macintyre and starts Dominic Noonan as a gangster in Manchester.


At the start there is a Master/Establishing shot of a urban landscape at night with the night lamps on. Stereotypical at night you would see crime and corruption, the scene is very dark.
The documentary is using film conventions stating 'Pare films in association with five presents...' which is not conventional for a documentary to use them.
There is ambient sound of a train and a voice over which is also sound bridge as the sound is coming from the next shot which has a middle aged male talking, then it cuts to three gangsters. You can clearly see that one pf them is more dominant than the other two as there is a juxtaposition of him being in the middle of them two and the two are looking out which maybe showing that they are his bodyguards/protection. Them two next to the protagonist are seen smoking.
the scene cuts to another scene of them walking down under a bridge and there is a low angle shot of them  showing that they are dominant gangsters than he audience and the rest of the people in Manchester.
The music is very stereotypical as they are playing hip hop/rap music as they normally play this kind of music when there is a gangster film.
This scene ends and goes to another with them walking towards the camera with a slow motion which was also used in a film  called 'reservoir dogs' by Quentin Tarantino.
Later in a different scene there is a voice over of Donal listing about what the criminal gangster is infamous for like killing people.
There is a shot of them on a CV...