Grizzly man

This is a mixed documentary as it contains mainly archive footage with cutaways, a voice over to lead the narrative and intercuttting interviews.

The themes of grizzly man are wild-life and nature, death, protecting/fighting for something we belive in.



The narrative structure is Linear and tells a clear story, at the beginning of the documentary we are introduced to Timonthy Treadwell, a man who lives with bears, in the middle of the documentary conflict is added as his friends and family believe that he was a good man who would've done anything for the bears whereas other people believe it was his fault he got eaten and when an native american is interviewed he statse that Timothy did the ultimate act of disgrace/arrogance. At the end of the documentary we are left to decide whetehr Timothy has impacted the wildlife park where the bears life and that is nature ever truly tamed.

The camera shots used were:

• Hand held to show the frantic nature of particular scenes

• A zoom out of a bear drinking, shows us what the documentary will mainly feature.

• Close up of bear, shows importance .

• Establishing shot of wildlife park, shows where the action will take place.

• 2 way shot of ecologists

• Pans around the native american who works in the museum.
• Zooms out of a picture of Timothy to show him and his girlfriend together, shows us that the documentary is mainly about him however she does get mentioned.

• Arial-pan show to show the wildlife park

The mise-en-scene is mainly in the wild as that is where Timothy stays when filming his expedition, and when Timothy is interviewed the background is a forest/vegetation of some sort. The bear biologist is interviewed in his office to show his status and that he is an intelligent person, we are shown inside the museum that has a grizzly bear statue and the women who is an ex-girlfriend of timothys is interviewed in her own home-a comfort zone.



the sound that is used is diagetics such as the speaking of the Timothy and his girlfriend on the recordings, the ambient sound of the wildlife can be heard in the recordings aswell, we can hear the questions being asked in the interviews and slow sombre music is played when we learn of Timothys death.

The editing used was:

•  The interviews intrecut each other.
• Cutaways were used to anchor meaning to make a point during interviews.
• Slow-paced editing as this was more of an informational documentary.
• Music bed was used.
• A lot of archive footage such as Timothys recordings of when he was in the wild to help the stroy develop and move along.

The archive material that was used was Timothys recordings of him in the wild with the bears, and photographs of him teachign at the school where he worked. We were also shown drawings by children of Timothy, a radio presenter talking at one point as well as photograpphs of the autopsy done on the bear. His parents also read aloud from one of the last letters he sent.

The gaphics used were small white graphics to introduce who people were and were used to show a time scale.