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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