Cinematography:

• ELS of the crowd at the concert – drone (digital)
• official and amateur footage used from the concert
• positioned with the crowd but align with Amy
• found footage of her body being carried out – desaturated (Michael Moore)
• LS of someone crying at the funeral

Mise en Scene:

• blurry/grainy found footage of the concert – audience position, matches the documentary’s style of actuality
• red light – demonic, slow-mo (V/O ‘it felt like the end’
• ‘she totally blow it’ – TV footage (Michael Moore)
• sub-titled dialogue of the crowd e.g. ‘sing’
• CU picture of her bare feet (paparazzi) – cropped
• professional photo – smiling – V/O about drinking
• ‘3 weeks later’
• ‘4:05 pm’
• desaturation
• friend picture
• subtitles
• magazine cover – ‘demons’
• Funeral footage – disrespectful of the documentary of commentary of paparazzi

Perfromance:

• Amy hugs the band
• Amy sits down on stage
• There is a person reassuring Amy’s dad at the funeral

Editing:

• slow-mo of Amy on stage when she is not singing
• photo of Amy taken out of focus. ‘she didn’t want to do it’ at airport
• After funeral – montage of Amy – smiling, singing, ordinary
• cross fade to Amy on street and her phone (CU) – took stud out, modest clothes, white clothes, edited picture, healthier?, picture purposefully chosen, Ken burns but very slight, less judgmental
• montage during credits while famous song plays
• slow-mo – police etc

Sound:

• dropped in airplane sound
• sound bridge of crowd cheering
• non-diegetic paparazzi camera sounds over paparazzi pictures – effect
• crowed cheer and then boo – mood shift
• V/O – ‘she just wouldn’t sing’
• diegetic band on stage – won’t sing
• V/O – excited about the wedding, didn’t care that she had messed up
• V/O – ex-manager and friend) ‘she said she hadn’t been drinking’
• ringing sound effect
• friend Juliette – ‘ It was my Amy’ ‘she just kept saying sorry’ V/O – compared to a child, almost crying, ‘missed my best friend’ – cross fades to picture of them as children
• ‘If I could give it back just to walk down that street… i would’ – someone repeating what she had said V/O – contrasts to earlier in the film (‘lucky’)
• non-diegetic piano during phone call that started the film

Moore:

• guided in terms of representation of Amy and what to feel (e.g. wants to make you cry)

Digital Debate:

• drone – exaggerates that she has been taken away from her home to the airport
• phones