Sunday, 19 September 2010

Documentary Analysis 4

Title of programme: Help I caught it abroad 2 on IV1

Type of documentary

Mixed documentary

Themes

Medicine

Tropical Diseases

Hospitals

Narrative Structure

Closed

Non Linear

Multi Stranded – about various people

Camera work

Interviews – Mid CU/CU/Mid 2 shot – framed to either left or right – eyes 3rd of the way down – conventional framing

Extreme CU – eyes/mouth/hand

High/Low angle used – building and people

Establishing shots – Liverpool skyline

Creative shots used - Tracking/Pan

P.O.V Shot

Mise-en-scene

Hospital

Living Room

Sound

Voiceover – Male – Calm/Standard English

Heartbeat machine used

Interview used as a voiceover – women

Orchestral

Dramatic

Editing

Cut

Images dissolve on top of another – disease in dish dissolved over extreme CU of eyes

Archive Material

Images – holiday photos/images of professors – camera movement used

Stock footage used – parks/trees

Actuality footage – disease on a dish

Graphics

Opening title sequence – looks like it’s looking down a microscope

No graphics used for the interviews – but names are said on voiceover

Here is the programme which illustrates this

http://player.stv.tv/programmes/help-i-caught-it-abroad/2010-09-13-2100/?yes

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