2. Subject and Themes
 The subject of the documentary was the rapper
Kendrick Lamar and how he made it in the music
industry through years of learning and struggling
 It had themes of determination, never giving up,
learning and striving to achieve goals that you’ve set
yourself to become a better person.

3. Structure/Narrative
 It began with a chronological story of his life narrated
by him saying how he learnt from the best and
developed his skills and how he started being
himself more to get noticed more, then it went on to
say how seriously he took it and how he spent years
of effort to get known and how he struggled in his life
due to the place that he grew up and ends with his
success and how he aims to get better and what he
wants to achieve in his life.

4. Mise en Scene
 The camera is frequently in black and white setting
possibly showing the straight forward nature of his
personality and that he’s not a complicated person
but very basic and just like everybody else, the
lighting casts a shadow across his face to create a
sense of the unknown to his character to say that
he’s not fully shown himself yet, he’s frequently
shown with his prop a microphone to emphasise
what he’s speaking about and where he is now and
he’s always wearing very casual clothing to show
he’s just the same person he was before he was
famous.

5. Camera
 Has extreme close ups of his face from at the
beginning during the interview, it also zooms in from
a long shot to an extreme close up. Has lots of dutch
angle shots to maybe convey that he’s complicated
in the sense that he’s a had an odd up-bringing and
there’s plenty of things that are mysterious about
him. There’s a tilt from his shoes to his face showing
the simplicity of his clothing and character.

6. Editing and Sound
 There’s very fast editing between shots with images
fading into another to show how fast the time went
from older images to new.
 There’s non-diegetic sound of a cover of one of his
songs in a slow, emotional style by a woman, as well
as music played at the start on the piano to
introduce the documentary to introduce the
documentary as emotional and deep.

7. Archive Material and Stills
 There’s plenty of archive material showing things
such as him performing live and there’s still shots of
images of him as a child and places that he grew up
as well as images of people that inspired him to
strive to be better at what he does.