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Naila Khan 11s.

English media coursework.

Bank holiday review.

Madeline McCann - one year on.

Come home to relax after a delightful bank holiday and turn on the TV. What better way to start off the evening than, Madeline McCann, one year on. Once the documentary started I knew it was going to turn my mood upside down.

This documentary is quite effective because it is extremely biased to the favour of the parents. Although there are some balances, which I think don’t really make any difference.

Before watching this documentary I thought Kate and Jerry McCann were involved in the kidnapping of Madeline. However my viewpoint has been changed after watching this documentary.

There are many different types of camera angles used slyly. Like when they want the audience to see an emotion clearly they use extreme close up. 

They also use mis en scene, a camera angle when everything in the shot is purposely placed where it is. They also show clips of the other two children playing on the swings and the third swing is empty, showing the emptiness of Madeline not being there.

They also bring in some clips of the news when Madeline went missing to make the audience remember how important it is, but honestly I think it just makes the documentary even longer than it already is.

Throughout the whole documentary they show photographs of Madeline.

This is to keep the image of Madeline in peoples mind, even though everyone’s seen it more than enough of her.

There is some very strong and violent language used in the beginning when Jerry reads an unpleasant letter from someone, if I’d have heard of this before watching this documentary I would have completely agreed with it.

Although no one deserves to be talked to in that manner.

Kate McCann says that “one minute seems like an hour”, this shows that she does care about Madeline and she feels like time doesn’t move. She also says that Madeline was like a best friend to her and that they would go shopping together and have a coffee and she says that she misses doing all this with her.

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