HOWARD SMITH

Extraordinary People is a television documentary series broadcast

on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. Each programme follows the

lives of people with a rare medical condition or unusual ability.

People featured have or had rare illnesses such as rabies and eye

cancer. Many of these people do activities previously thought

impossible for people in their condition.

Documentary Mode

‘Extraordinary People’ is a reflexive and expository documentary.

It shows interviews of the people suffering the conditions. This

engages the audience more as they can hear directly from the

person themselves instead of a narrator doing it.

This documentary is for educational purposes and also has

emtotional qualities. People will feel sad and the producer has

made it so that the view wants to find out how their surgery or

treatment goes. As the viewer feels they need to find out if they

get better.

Documentaries

As channel 5 are not as big as the likes of Channel 4, BBC

and ITV they produce a big range of documentaries for the

viewer across multiple subjects.

They can be for nature, educational purposes or social issues

etc. they must cover as many as possible to remain popular.