24 hours in A&E is a documentary series that films patients and staff at a hospital emergency department without interference over a 24 hour period. It uses a multi-stranded narrative structure to follow different storylines that are resolved by the end of each episode. Camera work includes close-ups during interviews, high angle shots of the hospital, and over-the-shoulder shots of doctors helping patients. Dim lighting, medical uniforms, ambulance sirens and beeping sounds are used to set the scene. Editing techniques like montages, zooming, and narrow depth of field focus on key moments and convey the urgency of emergency care.

1. 24 hours in A&E

2. Type of documentary Themes
and narrative structure
•24 hours in A&E is a Fly on the wall documentary as it films the
subjects without interference
•The documentary is multi strand as there is lots of different storylines
taking place. It is Closed as there are no loose ends and all questions
are answered. It is
Non Linear as it Doesn't follow time order use of flashbacks and flash
forwards.

3. Camera Work
They use close ups in each interview with
the person who is getting interviewed looking
directly at the camera.
They use lots of high angle shots of the
hospital to show everything that is happening
at one time.
They use over the shoulder shots
of the doctors talking and helping
the patients

4. Mise-en-scene
• They use dim lighting throughout the programme canting
that sad things were happening .
• They whole documentary includes doctors in nurses
dressed in there work clothes.

5. Sound
• They use phones calling beeping ands of ambulance sirens
at the start of the episode to show that there is
emergencies happening.
• They increase the speed of the beeping to and end with a
long beep connoting it could be the end of someone's life.
• They use a male voice over who spoke in a cockney accent
showing the audience were the programme is set.

6. Editing
• They use montage of clips in the opening credits to show
what the programme is going to be about.
• Zooming is used throughout the programme to show us the
pain that some patients are in.
• They use narrow depth of field when the interviews are
taking place so the focus is only on the interviewer

7. Archive material
They use a countdown of
the time at the beginning
of the episode