Genre Analysis - Documentary Analysis - Cherry Gets Married

This documentary has a genre of weddings and real-life, it is an expository as it has voice-of-god.


The narrative structure starts with Cherry talks about her wedding, goes through all the plans and talks about other peoples weddings, such as a 16 year old getting married, then goes on to interview a woman who has married 8 times and finally ends with Cherry's wedding day.


When looking at the camera work there are close-ups of Cherry driving in her car on the way to interview a girl, this makes the interview seem more exciting. There is also a close-up of a womans wedding ring which reinforces the fact that it is about marriage. An over the shoulder shot is used of Cherry herself on her laptop looking at wedding plans, this shot is used in order to seem like the audience is being nosy almost. There is also hand-held camera work used when Cherry is walking down the street making it more believable and not acted.


The mise-en scene makes the documentary seem more down to earth and real life as it does not seem put on. When interviewing the mise-en-scene is the girls house mainly in her living room to show she is real and not putting on an act for the camera, making the audience more interested in her story, this interview then moves on to take place on the interviewees bed to show a more relaxed atmosohere as the interview goes on, which may also show a bond between Cherry and the girl building.


Through sound there is a voice-over used which surprisingly is of the Cherry's voice herself as the documentary is on her life. When she is trying on her wedding dress there is non-diegetic sound used of romantic music in order to fit in with marriage and relates to her wedding day as it is every girls fairytale therefore the fairytale music fits in well. There is also diegetic sound used of one of the interviewees phone calls with her husband to be. Also non diegetic sound is used when going from one place to another so that it doesn't get boring for the audience as it adds another dimension.

Through editing the camera-work is speeded up in a couple of places in order to make it seem more exciting to the audience.


There are Graphics used when the woman being interviewed is on the phone to her husband to be, these are used in order to show the conversation in case the audience cannot understand his voice properly with him being on loudspeaker.