documentaries medical

DocumentariesMedical

One born every minute• One born every minute is a British observational documentary series

which shows the day to day activity of a labour ward.• The factual series is made by Dragonfly Film and Television

Productions, which is part of Shine Group.• The first series won a 2010 BAFTA for best factual series, the second

series was nominated for a 2011 BAFTA for best factual series. • Airlock who designed the interactive and multimedia material to

accompany the series were nominated for a 2010 BAFTA “New Media Award”.

…• One born every minute is a fixed-camera observational documentary.

Channel 4 seem to be showing more fixed camera observational documentaries. The documentary is shot in a hospital in Southampton. • Using a fixed-camera observational style documentary is something

that I will not be using in my documentary as mine is not an observational documentary. But this style of documentary seems to be effective for scenes which are located in a building and want to recorded basically 24 hours a day without having to have a camera crew to be there.

24 hours in A & E• 24 hours in A & E is fully narrated throughout and is a single strand

documentary.• The camera is hidden and not an obvious thing, so people act normal

and not staged.• Camera shots used are; Long Shot, Close up, Medium close up (when

people are having interviews).• Editing- fades from title to start of programme, normal shot to shot.• Sound- Voiceover of the narrator, diegetic sound of machines beeping

and doctors talking, patients crying and talking and people on the phone in the background to loved ones.

…• The only graphics used is at the start of the documentary is the title

‘24 hours in A & E’ and this just cut away and moves on to the start of the scene.