Reggie Yates – hidden
Australia.
This documentary is about Reggie Yates who visits an
Aboriginal community suffering from addiction and generations of
institutionalised racism. His plan is to go to a city in Australia called
Wilcannia, to find out the cause of why it is so isolated, lifeless and why it
doesn’t attract tourism. Reggie spends a couple days in Wilcannia to talking to
those who live there and find out what life is like there and why they have
such a bad name with tourists.
Accuracy:
In this documentary, Reggie went there with no accurate
information but only on what he has heard on passing. So with this, he took the
risk of going to Wilcannia, Australia to share only true facts with the public and
report it correctly without making the rumours about them to be true. For Reggie
to provide all the facts he’s going to have to get specific details from those
he speaks to in this documentary to show people that this isn’t scripted or put
on for show, and by doing that, Reggie normally tells his audience who he’s
about to meet but in this case he doesn’t, he goes in blind and just walks up
to random people on the street, greets them and finds out their story on what
they do in this isolated area and what happened to it. For example, Reggie
pulls up on family, the first family he comes across really, and just asks them
a few questions and he speaks to one male in particular, Lendal King who tells
him about how he’s drinking early in the morning because there’s nothing to do.
Reggie then meets some young girls at a bus stop and asks them a few questions
on why they think their parents drinks and if there is anything to do in the
town. This is important for Reggie as well as the audience because both him and
the audience are not given false information.
Balance:
Balance is finding out information from both side of the
parties to those who are watching rather than favouring one side of the story
to make the audience feel one particular way. For this documentary that Reggie
is doing, it’s hard to sort of suss out if you’re really getting both sides of
the story because Reggie goes around talking to people and to find out their
side of the story but when he meets a radio dj (DJ Smacka), he tells Reggie
what happened and why the town is actually the way it is. “The last time we had
a camera come in was when, I think it was a bloke from 60 Minutes. He left and
done a very horrible story. Then he came back to apologise and said that he’ll
make it good, and the second story he did just made it worser.” For the viewers
this might be hard for them to make up their mind because they’re not hearing
it from the person who made the story but from those who have suffered the
impact from it.
Impartiality and
objectivity:
Impartiality is weighing views or opinions up fairly,
without letting your personal view get in the way of how you see things. Objectivity
is judging something without allowing your personal feelings to get involved. For
Reggie, no matter what he is documenting, he never lets his view block his way
of seeing things, meaning he may not like how they live or how the guy
portrayed them. “I’m a little shell-shocked. I mean, as someone who hates the
idea of stereotyping and gets incredibly frustrated whenever I feel that
someone is, you know, being massively presumptuous about me based on their own
prejudice. I’m a little disappointed that in the first hour of me being here,
I’ve just walked into a living, breathing stereotype for these people.” From
this you can clearly see what Reggie is feeling but that doesn’t stop him from
finding out more and blocking his view of seeing things. Normally it’s important for those who are involved
to not give out their personal view. But in this situation it’s different story because the
party that is involved has to speak their opinion as they are the ones that are
affected, and for them it’s just a hope that people do change their attitudes
towards those who live in Wilcannia.
Subjectivity:
Subjectivity is judgement based on personal feelings and
opinions rather than external facts. The citizens of Wilcannia, are honest
about alcohol playing a big part of where they live and their lives. However Reggie
has shown us, the audience more information and why they really do what they
do, and shows how there really isn’t anything to do apart from drink for those
who live there. From this
we can see that the people who live there are the ones who are really affected
and are hurt due to one person irrelevant opinion and this has made them guard
themselves and had a hatred for those who are going to find out what happened
like Reggie did and really hate those who are like Reggie.
Opinion:
An opinion is a personal view, a belief that doesn’t have
enough evidence to be classed as a fact. Most opinions are formed from
something that has happened. Within all documentaries that Reggie does, he has
his opinions and views but they don’t count as facts, but he helps others make
their own opinion on the documentary due to how they live and the issues in it.
Some viewers may
have mixed opinions because how they are living is from someone’s opinion based
on where they live and how they live which left them in a terrible situation
that made them result into drinking alcohol every minute of the day. Therefore
from seeing and hearing this it’s given the audience mixed thoughts about it
all.
Bias:
Bias is unfairly siding with one certain side of an argument
without evidence to back it up. Reggie doesn’t take sides and he definitely
isn’t biased. He balances his opinions and hears what both sides of the
argument. This can
be seen when he first gets there, he only knows one side of the story so he
goes and finds out the other side. He doesn’t think it’s fair on how these
people are now living because of something someone said and then made it worse
by trying to put it right.
Representation:
Representation is how something is portrayed or stereotyped
within the media. Many things in the media get taken the wrong way or interpret
it in the wrong way by how they’ve been represented. In this case or situation, the damage
has been done by someone else so by Reggie going there was only two things that
could have happened, make it better or worse than what it already is. Reggie
hasn’t portrayed it in a bad way, or said anything to make it look bad, he
leaves that to the public to decide for themselves.
Access:
Access is being allowed permission to film but before you
can do that you have to make sure you are given permission by those who you are
meant to be interviewing so that there are no complications. For Reggie, it was
a different story, he may have got permission to come in the country and film
but because he wasn’t interviewing anyone in particular, he interviewed those
who he just came across, yet he still had to ask if he could ask them a few
questions.
Privacy:
Privacy is being free away from the attention of the public.
As this isn’t a direct interview documentary meaning that he didn’t have to
keep things private like addresses but at the same time he didn’t in a way,
because he had to protect where he was going in Wilcannia and where about’s he
filmed in the area and where he interviewed people, like when he went to a
youth club for the kids. This is so no one can go and find them or try to do
anything with their information. He had to make sure he wasn’t invading anyone’s personal space, such as
when he saw a couple family members drinking and he went up to this boy who had
strong feelings about how their lifestyle is and another member came up to Reggie
asking question like who are you and what are you doing, getting defensive,
this then made reggie explain himself.
Contact with viewer:
Out of
this whole thing, this is the most realist thing about it, even though the
whole documentary is real, this is the part where it isn’t organised meaning
the people who comes across they aren’t planned. As this is called Reggie Yates
– hidden Australia, it’s his job to give everything that is real for the
audience which can definitely be seen in this documentary.
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