Looking at documentaries within the TV Schedule

BBC One

• Older entertainer docs on Sunday - targets baby boomers
• Same documentaries as BBC 2 but later - Rip off Britain starts at 9.15am
• Crime documentaries sometimes during the day
• Political documentaries about wide issues
• Issues with government policies/welfare state - Council House Crackdown 8-9pm 3 parts

BBC 2

• Sunday prime time 9pm Louis Theroux new doc - repeated on Tues after midnight - 3 part hour long series
• Documentaries from 6am about British issues, real life stories about issues in society until 9am - morning dominated
• Educational programmes - health, money

itv

• Thursday 9pm  Presenter led crime doc 1 off 1 hour An Hour to Catch a Killer with Trevor McDonald
• Some factual programmes like ITV 4 has Car Crash Global: Caught on Camera

Channel 4

• Play documentaries after midnight until 3am
• More Factual Entertainment in 3hr slot eg The Undateables
• Repeats of popular documentaries after midnight eg Educating Greater Manchester - 8 part weekly series
• Documentaries focusing on unusual people with exciting headlines - Quadruplets and Homeless
• Shows centred around a profession/place eg 24 hours in A and E

Channel 5

• More factual shows than documentaries
• Railway documentaries primetime - 9pm weekday
• Real life series centred around a theme eg Tattoos, but usually negative/problems had
• Some shows centred around a profession eg Doctors
• Visualization of gossip mag stories - Gypsy kids (7 parts) and Nightmare neighbours (11 Parts)

BBC4

• Horizon at 9pm
• Play documentaries after midnight until 3am
• Channel off air until 7pm
• Mainly documentaries apart from some more news based
• Repeats of Louis Theroux's documentaries from 1997 - big names get more air time
• Weekly series - sometimes double episodes on the same day eg The Vietnam War 2 eps 10-12pm
• Lot of history, music based,
• Until 3.30am

Sky1

• Docs until 4-5am - animals, border/professions

Netflix

Vice

Wong Kar Wai Techniques

• Telephoto lens with movement in foreground makes character look more isolated
• Coloured gels tocreate unusual coloured light
• Holding on a character doing everyday things
• Actors manipulating props with hands - glasses, toy plane
• Monologue VO - introspection, isolation
• Rain
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Watching The Insider: Reggie Yates

Documentary in which Reggie Yates visits the Middle East to spend a week living and sleeping in the largest refugee camp in Iraq alongside 30,000 Syrian refugees

• We enter the camp with Reggie, as he starts the programme walking through countryside in a manner akin to news footage
• He sets the scene with international news coverage which basically equates to what we the audience know
• He matches the emotions you would expect a person going through the process to feel, with a CU of him rubbing his eyes signifying a long and tedious process
• The UN officials don't get introductions, instead we see them carrying out their jobs, with Reggie  not getting special treatment
• When he is given supplies the moment has a strange feeling as he is not actually in need of any of them
• When Reggie walks through the camp his surprise as seeing 55 inch plasma TV screens mirrors the subversion of the audience's expectations
• Use of title cards with day numbers on links back to Reggie's opening piece to camera when he says he will stay for a week. This gives structure and gives an idea of how far he has to go - building anticipation
• There are a lot of shots of Reggie's back as he walks
• Graphics explain the geography of the camp with Reggie's VO using what he's learnt to describe
• Skip over showing moments like Reggie finding a translator
• Permanence of the camp contrasted by the materials its built with -tarpaulin etc
• Residence Reggie talks to padlocks his door - sfx emphasiz the moment - connotations of ownership, danger
• Man that wont take money - the reason is just 'my friend'
• Barber refugee wants to come to the UK - but says he has to do it illegally
• Boy plays guitar in the background - normalcy and community feeling
• Glitch effect on cuts - between reggie ordering a curry and guns being fired - a way to visualize the discrepancy or trying to wrap your head around it
• Use of time at the bottom and beeping sound effect - urgency in darkness
• Sad piano music as Hazwan describes how he is afraid of forgetting the faces of his family
• Cutaways of Hazwan working whilst Reggie is trying to understand what it must feel like - after Reggie joins him - wanting to do something, joining in community feeling
• interviewing while they work
• Reggie goes to a house he describes as most complete home like house and sits on a sofa, they seem like they must be a better off family but the family have still suffered
• Shown a picture of a missing son on an iphone - black and white looking into camera - been missing since 2015
• Reggie calls the lack of aid 'a bit shit isn't it' beocming more connected to the people, reflecting the rawness of the refugees stories
• Reggie's observations lead him to a man who breeds pigeons
• CU of kettle pouring tea cutting between previous person and next
• Voiceover gives meaning to pigeons as 'roots'
• Hazwan slaps hand with reggie as leaves
• Reggie talks about his insights finishing with a look at a person behind the camera
• However bad it is, fatima reveals its worse for girls
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Community's End Credits

• Cutting from mid to wide with comical reveal
• Making fun of how a character sees themselves
• Running jokes
• Song
• Short genre piece often undermined by real life
• Exploring minor characters/different side to them/what they get up to
• Juxtaposing what a character looks like his stereotype would be
• Juxtaposing cartoon nature of the show with its real world cosequences
• Games/cartoons/films lifted into real life

Ethel and Ernie

• Slow fade up from black after horror of the blitz
• low angles when putting decorations on the ceilings
• Fade between parents in london to dorset
• panning from others digging to main family
• using sounds of bombers before it appears

Ode

Arthur O'Shaughnessy. 1844–1881

6. Ode

WE are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,	5
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,	10
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure	15
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;	20
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

• alliteration
• ideas of lone genius - 'lone' 'desolate' 'losers' united becoming 'ers'
• 'we' identity obscured but communal, anyone can identify with
• ideas of darkness, 'pale moon'
• written in a more patriarchal and patriotic time
• biblical references - tower of babel trying to defy nature and God
• Hope

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