Cinematography:

• Not filmed for professional use – handheld, lightings not right, actuality, phone
• still images/photographs
• found footage
• crash zoom – Amy performing on stage
• singing on stage – low light grain, auto focus

Mise en scene:

• found footage
• singing on stage
• lyrics on-screen – cursive font
• first person we see is Juliette, Amy’s mate
• ‘1998, Southgate, London’
• Car footage – tells us the date (2001) and sets up Tyler and Nick – development
• The mise-e-scene has been picked specifically. Builds story. How Amy is now and what she’s doing changes as the film goes on.

Performance:

• carefree and happy
• Amy singing on someone’s 14th birthday, she is impersonating Marlyn Monroe singing to the president
• Amy laying on her friends
• Amy holding and talking to the camera/herself
• first singing – Amy, child, a parody of Monroe who died young, regular person, one of the people in the room

Editing:

• – edited lens flare – photo of Amy, zoomed in on (moves, colorful)
• montage of her Jazz influences with Voice Over – learned from everything, Jazz Monk – undermining expectations?
• slowed down footage
• text is put on screen along with the lyrics
• Ken Burns effect (e.g. the picture of the written down lyrics)
• crossfade – poems with v/o to picture
• lack of continuity – Amy goes from the stairs to the mirror – singing
• disconnected visual and audio footage
• animated text
• highlighting lyrics because she wrote them? cursive font

Sound:

• opening – non-diegetic music over found footage – piano, single note motif
• Amy voice over discussing her love for Jazz – Amy singing constructs the narrative
• Voice over is played over found footage e.g. talking about singing cut over footage – slow motion at some points, smile, v/o ‘lucky’ ‘just something I can do’, contrasts the end
• ‘Moon River’ is sung by Amy in the opening credits (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) – laid back and dreamy but has issues — sound bridge, National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Kim Longinotto:

• The director doesn’t interact with the subject

Michael Moore:

• An attempt to sway audience opinions of Amy, had to because of media perception?

Critical Debate – Digital Technology:

• edited lens flare – romantic, glamour, happy