Documentary Research 2

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Documentary Research

Howard Smith

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One Born Every Minute is a British observational documentary series which shows the day to day activity of a labour ward.

The factual series is made by Dragonfly Film and Television Productions, which is part of Shine Group

The first series won a 2010 BAFTA for best factual series, the second series was nominated for a 2011 BAFTA for best factual series. Airlock who designed the interactive and multimedia material to accompany the series were nominated for a 2010 BAFTA "New Media Award”.

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Documentary Mode

One Born Every Minute is a fixed-camera observational documentary. Channel 4 seem to be showing more fixed camera observational documentaries. The documentary is shot in a hospital in Southampton.

Using a fixed-camera observational style documentary is something that I will not be using in my documentary as mine is not an observational documentary. But this style of documentary seems to be effective for scenes which are located in a building and want to recorded basically 24 hours a day without having to have a camera crew to be there.

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Documentaries

Channel 4 documentaries are usually about people lives and current social event/issues.

They mainly serve the purpose of entertaining the viewer and not always educating as the documentaries don’t have educational purposes.

TV series’ such as Misfits, Made in Chelsea etc. are what Channel 4 do most. Seeing as documentaries are not the main thing that channel 4 do they still remain the be very popular and entertaining for the viewer.