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. From this
the audience is able to recognise what’s real by the flashbacks and some of the
issues that are present can relate to some of those in the audience.
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 vacation 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. In this
observational documentary, the narrative is the presenters inform the audience
with their opinion on their lives and is normally seen in documentary. This
show in particular can be taken very negatively as its very strong in one
opinion but can be told the opinions by others and be blow out of proportion and
be exaggerated.
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. The voice of god allows us to understand what we are
seeing in front of us. The main code and convention for these sorts of
documentaries are facts, opinions and rhetorical questions which makes this an
expository documentary.
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. One of the modes for this
has the emotional feature of it. The codes and conventions is that the makers would
touch on the making of the programme meaning the camera shots and movements.
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.
The
news report I found is from the other day based on three men who are wanted
over an acid attack in east London nightclub that has left two people partially
sighted, in which one of them has been arrested. It’s been reported out of this attack there
has been twenty people who were hurt and has been conformed Mr Collins (one of the attackers)
is the boyfriend of The Only Way is Essex star Ferne McCann. This has been
shown on the 6o’clock news on itv. With this comes the codes and conventions side
to it. There are links to the studio, such as to another tv studio or to a live
area with a field reporter. This can be found mainstream news channels such as
the BBC and ITV and some American news channels. There are experts and a
witness with opinions on a subject gives the viewers/listeners another opinion.
The reporter will try to gain as a many witnesses as possible to gather lots of
information. An expert provides reassurance and gives the audience facts and
figures. This ties
in to the news report about the attack in the night club as it has a lot of
witnesses who were at the scene of the crime.
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