Watching Mo Farah: The Race of his Life

• Starts with a tease
• Engages with current controversies around doping and sets up his importance and hence why you should watch
• Undermined a little as we know he goes to Olympics
• Lets the race voiceover set him up as Double Olympic champion
• Slow motion and throbbing music for when he comes 2nd
• Starts off with an upset to the idea of him as a champion - creates conflict
• Farah filming self makes it more personal, confessional
• Using air hostess to set up travelling to africa
• Usain bolt providing different perspective and star interest
• Farah directly addresses camera and voiceover provides explanation
• Use of drone tyo capture dry landscape
• Opinions from coaches
• other athletes for comparison
• See in ethipian environment -different from home, alien place - speaks in english
• starts with skype call to go into section about missing his family - interview and footage of family as cutaways
• dip to black which comes back to narrating mo's history
• Starts off sharing joke with brother so set up family fondness then starts recounting memories
• Talks to his brother in native language about why they were seperated, prefixed by voicover saying its the first time theyve spoken about it - exclusivity
• dip to black then London -c amera follows him walking - seems comfortable wherever he is
• talks abotu not being able to speak english in interview
• using pictures to link past to present interviews
• Go to London olympics
• Talks about it in rterms of family and emotional side
• Personal private pre race routine
• jokes dont amputate my leg after get spikes
• films family side when reuniting
• childrens voices carry over to him on running machine, image of him running in front of tv with medals on shelves above
• Gving credit to coach and his methods
• Setting up conflict of personal and career lives
• links two doping and press coming to family's home
• using press conference footage
• setback before what is described as his only chance to race his competitors before the olympics
• 'mo's gamble has not paid off' reaction shots of him
• filming himself at night surrounding by darkness, thoughts keeping him up
• See ups and down of athlete's life
• 31 years old
• Lifting huge weights, slo mo
• setting up conflict of overtraining
• family in hotel vs pre race streches
• wife's  reaction to race
• family at arena
• week off training montage with his family
• Cpuntdown clock to rio in corner
• ends with opinions on him
• comes over to camera after he finished his annoversary race
• uplifting music