2. Machine gun Kelly Life in pink
→ The storyline of the documentary is about
Machine Gun Kelly and his life throughout the
years. The slogan of the documentary is "pain,
passion and love", get a look into the mind of
Machine Gun Kelly". This documentary
includes one-on-one interviews with his
daughter Casie Barker, his band members
such as Rook who is his drummer, Slim who is
his best friend, and producer and director,
Travis Barker and many others. There is
appearances from music artists he has
collaborated with such as iann dior, Halsey,
Trippie Redd and Mod Sun. Travis, Casie and
Slim talks about him from different perspective
and who they are too him, they talk about some
of the issues he has gone through such as
3. Passion =
music
On March 25th, 2022 "Mainstream sellout" was released. He
explains that he wanted to create this album to show what happened
after Tickets to my downfall. He wanted this album to go to number 1
to prove that Tickets to my downfall was not luck. He proved this and
even though it is a great achievement, him being obsessive to be
number 1 again took a toal on his relationships. On April 9th, 2022,
Mainstream sellout hits number 1 on Billboard 200, his second
September 25th, 2020, Machine Gun
Kelly released his first pop punk album
"Tickets to my downfall". He wrote this
album with Travis Barker and has
features from iann dior, Trippie Redd,
Halsey and Blackbear. People did not
see him coming with this album as he
has come from a rap background. On
4th October 2020 Tickets to my
downfall hits number 1 on Billboard
100, his first ever number 1 album.
Hotel Diablo is Machine Gun
Kelly's first album to hit 1
billion streams. The media
still chose to right me off". He
released Hotel Diablo July
5th, 2019.
4. Pain = lose and hate
→ Machine gun Kelly goes into the massive amount of hatred he
gets online. He talks about the past and how that has affected
his life, and he also talks about the loss of his father
→ He explains the struggles of family life and how he did not
have a good relationship with his mam and his dad, and as he
was reconnecting with his dad it was almost too late and he
says, "I'm so sorry for how we lived this life together, and like
we'll do it better on the next one". His father passed away 5th
July 2020.
→ The type of hatred he gets ranges from his experience,
genres he is going into, the success he is making as people
never saw it coming and more. He gets a lot of hate that is so
overpowering from the love his gets from his fans.
5. Love = Relationships
→ Throughout this documentary Machine
gun Kelly talks about being a father, a
husband to be, a friend and a music artist.
He talks about his father passing and how
that made him spiral and almost ended his
own life. He talks about how Megan Fox
has been there for him. He talks about
how much he loves his daughter Casie
and how he wants to protect her. He also
talks about how Megan and Casie are
their for him during hard times.
6. Outside of music = movies
→ Apart from music Machine
gun Kelly also known as
Colson Baker in the acting
industry. He has stared in a
lot of movies in his career,
and he has also directed and
produced his own movie
"good mourning" with friend
and artist Mod sun.
→ In the movie "Taurus" he
has his own music featured
and it tells a story that is
similar in its own way to his
own life.
→ Downfalls high is a movie
that he created and includes
7. Interviews
Here are some screenshots from the
documentary. These are either one on
one interviews and they talk about the
different situations they are in on the
timeline of this documentary. The also
talk about their relationship with Machine
Gun Kelly and how different situations
did not only affect him but they also
affected them.
These people are his friends that work
with him with music, his daughter and
collaborations with other artists.
8. Code and conventions
→ "Different camera angles" had also been included and different type of shots, setting and type of information.
→ They have used "insert" where they have gotten clips throughout the two years of filming the documentary, they
have gotten clips from his previous tours, studio moments with different artists that he has collaborated with
throughout the years. They also added some clips from when he was starting music.
→
The documentary also included factual information, and these were presented with information the public and his
fans would have known, or information that was kept private, and he has used his documentary to share this
information about his life. "We kept the cameras rolling".
→ As this documentary is about a music artists there was background music of his that has been released. This fitted
really well with the documentary as it is about him, and when they were going back through the past two years, they
included songs that were produced then. Such as in 2019 he released "Hotel Diablo" and they were playing music
from that era, and they continued that through 2020 with "Tickets to my downfall" and 2022 with his latest album
"Mainstream sellout".
→ The documentary included a lot of "Synchronous sound", and this was when they were also going through different
years of either creating music, places he was going too and when he was talking about different moments of his life
that affected him and his fans and followers might not have known about.
→ They have included "voice of god" and this was when he was talking about his life, people's opinions of him and
what he represents personally. There is also music overlays of when going into different years and changing the
subject and setting.
