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Piers Morgan’s life stories.

Interactive: Piers Morgan’s life stories in a tv chat show hosted by journalist Piers Morgan, it’s an on-going series by ITV. This documentary sees piers himself interview some of the world’s most famous people. The encounter is between the film maker and subject which are recorded with a live audience. We see Piers engage with the situations that have happened to them in the life that have been shared with the public in the tabloids and ones that haven’t. This documentary incorporates interview and has a live audience as I have stated who are one of the most important parts of this whole documentary. In this show we can see a variation of emotions by images that demonstrate the validity or even verbal exchange. Piers who is one of the main stars in this show becomes the centre, an interviewer and in some sort a therapist to get a more understanding of what they went through in more detail as he is an outsider yet he knows about the situations that they went through. In this documentary there come several characteristics that come with it, for example the acknowledged presence of camera, crew and clearly seen audience.  Throughout the whole ‘interview’ which is based in studio, Piers doesn’t look at the camera, crew or even the audience once, he speaks directly to the one he is talking to and keeps his eyes straight on the subject to keep it professional but to capture the emotion on the subjects face. Monologues and dialogues are pretty much throughout the show, as most of it is talking so you can get an understanding from the person itself, and the monologues who are done by piers with a sort of slide show tells you the basics with detail but not that much detail. We all know piers doesn’t have a filter so he’ll ask the questions he wants to ask even if they come of rude or hurtful in some way, yet he always has multiple viewpoints that come back with different information. Whatever he says stays within the person but it never results into an argument from what he has said to the person, leaving the audience a better way of thinking for themselves. As this is an ITV show, there are bound to be ad breaks but none of the footage has been edited so it can have logical continuity.

Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Observational: keeping up with the Kardashian is a reality tv factual programme, that consists of real life places in America with some real (some call fake) individuals that airs on E!. The show focuses on showing the world what these five sisters (excluding their brother) get up to in their daily lives. The show counts as observational documentary because it follows these individuals around, their homes, and their work places/opportunities and even out for lunches. This simply allows us to see what’s happening and make our own mind up about the events with no voice over. With this sort of reality show there isn’t a sort of ‘fly-on-the-wall’ style of presentation because it’s not a sit down reality show. Keeping up with the Kardashian can also be classed as expository as the cameras are set up sharing a sense of realism. With this it doesn’t really have unobtrusive camera work to attract attention but this family get a lot attention by just walking out the door. KUWTK has very long takes in the show giving the impression that nothing has been ‘cut out’, even with ad breaks as it’s shown on E! but with some episodes of the show, if you really look at it you can sometimes see that some things have been edited/cut out but most of the time you can’t really tell. There aren’t really any zoom lenses but the whole thing is done with hand held cameras following the action. For speech that is over heard and not direct to the person can be seen, in an episode of KUWTK when they go on vaycay to Thailand and Khloe is talking to Kim but ends up saying ‘I love him’ quietly in which they had to make a subtitle for it. Synchronous sound is throughout the whole show, its reality tv, you hear everything, to an echo in the room or even the wind from when their out and about. 

Wildlife – secret life of the zoo.

Expository:  wild life documentaries do contain the ‘voice of god’ and some don’t for the some I have seen, they don’t have ‘a voice of god’ they actually have the subject talking directly to the camera, explaining the action like what’s going on and the meaning behind some things. Secret life of the zoo is an expository and education documentary of animals as you get to see the person actually talking and interacting with the animals and the animals interacting with the cameraman. There is no interviews used in this sort of documentary or if there is we don’t get to hear it. In this documentary there is more than one narrator because it shows more than one part of the park, so you’ll get to see and learn about different animals in each episode and not just one. The last characteristic this documentary has is the audience, meaning us who just watch and listen.

Bear Grylls – breaking point.

Performative: bear grylls is a type of factual programming that is less straight forward, bear grylls himself is at the centre of the programme. It’s a documentary that gives an accurate account of a series of factual event, but at the same time it’s personal and subjective. As I said before bear grylls stars in his own documentary series in which he brings different everyday people (and some celebrities) on a personal journey to face their fears. This journeys that he takes these everyday people on are personal for bear grylls himself, as he is a survival expert and adventurer. This whole thing is self-reflexive for those who are staring in the documentary, for them to get over their fear. We also see some self-reflexive from Bear because this is something he’s done before and is personal for him. In this documentary he doesn’t really include or try to organise interviews but he does go along with them obviously so he has to talk to them and ask them how they are/feeling and anything about what’s happening on the journey. The whole thing is done by a hand held camera because it’s an adventure documentary, and it makes it easier for us to follow the filmmaker when he takes people on different journeys.

News: Another factual programme is a news report; this is done by informing the audience directly whether it’s done by tv (bbc, itv, channel 4). Being said that they do the same thing, they just have different ways of doing it. Some are more worldwide based news and stories. Going along with how they dress is the most important part if the whole thing because in their eyes, the ones who look well dressed and smart gets the most respect and people from the audience side most likely think that, because they dress that why, they are more likely to be trusted in what they are saying. They also talk formally and use correct terminology that will not upset the public and sound more sophisticated. They present the news on a non-bias outlook but sometimes can be taken the wrong way, by the way they only show either the good or the bad.