In Depth Analysis: Katy Perry Part Of Me

Katy Perry’s Part Of Me
Katy Perry’s “PART OF ME” is a fast paced documentary that follows her as she achieves what we learn to be her childhood dream of becoming a famous pop star. The documentary opens with her “superfans” speaking to the camera about how they idolise Katy Perry and how much she has changed their lives. There is then a cut to Katy when she was 18, (a similar age to her fans) talking about how she wants to be a leader one day. I felt like this was effective as it shows us an audience how long and how much she wanted this dream. This relates to my documentary on Alex, because we also have an interview with a superfan, and a clip of Alex giving a message to his fans where he says “Just keep loving me.” 

There are more archive files of Katy as the documentary goes on, for example short videos of her singing on stage at school with her guitar – this further emphasises to the audience how long audience has been her passion for. She talks about how much she went through in terms of music, for example, only being able to sing Christian music, how this was difficult for her and the conflict between her and her parents over her life choice to follow the path of music. “Katy I’m not gonna watch you if you’ve got half your clothes off” says her religious Mum in an argument. Throughout these archive files there are quick cuts to show Katy on stage on her Part Of Me tour, to remind the audience she has achieved her dream and overcome all these problems.

There are different interviews with friends and family throughout the documentary – including her childhood best friend. This is an important part of the documentary as it related to the kind of thing we were going to go for. We are going to use interviews with characters in our documentary to give the audience more of an idea of what Alex is like now, as well as what he was like growing up. To do this, we are going to interview his Father (Charlottes Father,) and his old school teacher to tell the audience what he was like to work with as a student. 

We have taken inspiration from Katy Perry’s Part Of Me documentary because when I watched it it gave me the idea to use old archive files of Alex like they do with Katy, this will be an effective way of making up the 5 minute total footage we need if we find we are struggling. We plan to take old family photos of Alex and make a montage that will play at the beginning of the documentary to represent Alex’s character and personality.