This documentary tells, at a pace, the story of Princess Diana through media coverage.
Many phases of Diana's relationship with the media, eg the Bashir interview, are worth a documentary in their own right.
The commentary is unspoken through the editing and music score. It doesn't tell those who lived through the 80s and 90s anything new and it certainly won't be last work on Diana's life.
There has been a lot of work selecting a vast range of archive footage, primarily from the UK and the US, with many hitherto unseen finds.
Most, if not all, of the original source material was shot in 4:3. I question the decision to crop and zoom all of this for widescreen, with a consequent degradation in picture quality. It would have been better to have preserved the original 4:3 aspect ratio.
On the Bashir interview, these are the only clips credited to the source on screen during the documentary. I understand this is because the BBC didn't give clearance for their use (the BBC has actually banned it from being licensed or repeated) and the documentary makers are claiming fair dealing on its use.
Many phases of Diana's relationship with the media, eg the Bashir interview, are worth a documentary in their own right.
The commentary is unspoken through the editing and music score. It doesn't tell those who lived through the 80s and 90s anything new and it certainly won't be last work on Diana's life.
There has been a lot of work selecting a vast range of archive footage, primarily from the UK and the US, with many hitherto unseen finds.
Most, if not all, of the original source material was shot in 4:3. I question the decision to crop and zoom all of this for widescreen, with a consequent degradation in picture quality. It would have been better to have preserved the original 4:3 aspect ratio.
On the Bashir interview, these are the only clips credited to the source on screen during the documentary. I understand this is because the BBC didn't give clearance for their use (the BBC has actually banned it from being licensed or repeated) and the documentary makers are claiming fair dealing on its use.