Channel: Channel four
Type Of Documentary: The voice over in the documentary is of a male to show control and authority about the seriousness of the situation, however the voice also sympathises with the victims. It narrates about different actions happening in different parts of the twin towers and giving reassurance to the families of the victims and to the audience. over a serious situation
It can also be perceived as a drama documentary as reconstructions were used for the man falling down the building to show the impact it had on the world. Some of the reconstructions were based on the information that was gave by the victims who had been through this traumatic event.
Narrative structure
The narrative structure was symmetrical with the videos and interviews that had been constructed. It was a linear structured documentary in order for the audience to keep up with what had happened and to be able to sympathise with the victims.
Camera work
- Close ups of the towers were used to show were the damage had occured and where the plane had panned through the buildings.
- Hand held camera work of was used to show the plane going through the twin towers and people's reactions of the distratrous damages.
- Zooming in was used in interviews when the victims were talking about their families and how they were trapped in the buildings and could not escape. During the interviews, photographs of the families were shown in a zooming shot to show the contrast from the photographs to actual reality. Also the emotions on the people’s faces to show that they were there and still feel for the event.
- Mid-shot and close up was used in the interviews to show the emotions on the faces of the people that were actually there.
The interviews were all placed on a blurry background to take the audience's attention from the surrounding to the person doing the interview. In addition, it shows the importance and seriousness of the issue being discussed and to be able to pay respect to those killed during the 9/11.
The clothes that the people being interviewed all wore suits to show respect to the topic. There was also a fire man to survive who had this fire mans suit on.
Sound
- non deigetic sounds and helicopters going round getting louder and building up the tensions at the beginning of the documentary.
- Voice over of actually conversation’s that different people made from inside the building and outside.
- Diegetic sound of the explosions going off inside in the twin towers.
- Non diegetic sound of music playing in between the documentary. The music is of piano instrumental which is very sad and slow refecting how the people being interview feel.
Channel: Channel Five
Synopsis Of The Documentary: Twin baby girls, Trishna and Krishna were left at a orphanage however they weren't normal babies, their skulls were fused together. They were taken at the Royal Children’s hospital in Melbourne Krishna suffered long term damages like Hypertension, pneumonia and an enlarged heart.
The twins made it through the laborious fight but there was a dilemma left – to save one twin or to let both of them die. However Moira (the mother) decided to go on with the operation although she knew the consequences of both of them dying or becoming disabled. However the twins survived four operation in a year and now they face their biggest operation ever- the separation and this can cost them lives.
Shot Angles:
Close up used during the interviews to make the audience aware of the devasting news the family had to go through.
Mid shot is used when
TYPE 1 DOCUMENTARY: Woman With Remarkable Body
Joy Westall was diagnosed with Dystonia when she was really young which affected her adult development. She got married and had a baby girl, Amy however Amy also developed signs of dystonia and by eleven years old Amy had clear signs of the illness. Specialist had reassured her that the illness was not hereditary ironically they changed their minds that it could be passed on through genes when Amy was showing clear
signs of dystonia.
In 2003, both the mother and daughter underwent an operation at Kings college hospital where the procedure is really risky and dangerous. The operation involved inserting 2 electrodes into the brain with a battery pack located under the skin of the chest. The operation was a success and now Amy attends dance classes, swimming and learning how to drive.
TYPE 1 DOCUMENTARY: Born with phocomelia
Born with a rare chromosomal disorder called phocomelia which is not unlike thalidomide, Alison Lapper did not have any arms and had only very short legs. She refers to her condition as: "limb deficiency". She is a remarkable lady in many respects. She has coped with her disability, put herself through university, raised a perfectly healthy son, established a successful career as a talented artist and won the respect of very many people.
She began life, from a very early age, at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74vTftboC_A
In this documentary, they summarise what schizophrenia is all about with short interviews about how this patients got diagnoised with schizophrenia and what their voices were saying. In this documentary it follows the conventions of a documentary:
- It has a voice over educating the audience at the same time listening to what these patients of schizophrenia have to say about their illness. The voice over is very clear and very fluent. For example when the talking about the voices the man was experiencing "the voices got louder and louder everyday".
- In the documentaries there were snap shots of Kim Stille as a child, and during those snapshots, Kim stille was talking about how schizophrenia started off during his childhood. This shots were used to make the documentary
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