Timeline Analysis

Here is my timeline analysis for a trailer for the documentary 'Blackfish'. This relates to my documentary because it is highly informative on a very particular topic, and I am going to analyse everything that happens in the first two and a half minutes of the trailer for this documentary, and this will hopefully allow me a larger insight into the way in which documentaries and their trailers are constructed.

0;00-0;07: Black screen, cut to mid shot of some whales swimming.
0:08-0:10: Non-diegetic whale noises, mid shot then cuts to black.
0:11-0:14: Non-diegetic voiceover, long shot of man and whale
0:15-0:17: Continued voiceover, and long shot of whales in their natural habitat
0:18-0:21: Continued voiceover, underwater shots of two people with whale, cuts to black screen.
0:22-0:25: Two titles on screen, non-diegetic sound on screen
0:26-0:30: Non-diegetic sound of things clashing together, cuts to another credit, to black screen.
0:31-0:38: Black cuts to another credit, non-diegetic, incidental music. Cuts to black screen.
0:40-0:50: Non-diegetic voiceovers, close-up of a whale, cuts to interview with diegetic sound
0:51-0:58: Close-up shot, diegetic sound of someone talking.
0:59-1:08: More interview shots, non-diegetic voiceovers, cuts to black.
1:09-1:20: Mix of long shots and title screen, and people being interviewed. Music is a mixture of diegetic and nondiegetic, people talking and background incidental music.
1:21-1:30: Showing medium shots and close-ups of whales, and non-diegetic voiceovers.
1:31-1:40: Long shot, cuts to medium shot of whales, and cuts to black then an interview shot with someone stating something in the background, voiceover from what sounds like the news.
1:41-1:45: Previous shots from own-footage, and people talking non-diegetic in background
1:46-1:55: More home footage cutting into another, smoothly fading into each other, building-up non-diegetic music and building tension
1:56-2:06: Lots of long shots and medium shots of whales and non-diegetic voiceover
2:07-2:15: Medium shots of whales swimming and voiceover explaining news cover pages, and long shots and close-ups of the animals and what the people do to them
2:16-2:24: End credits and end of incidental non-diegetic music, continued voiceover which is also non-diegetic.