2. First premiered on the 6th January 2001 How It’s Made was a
Discovery Channel documentary series showing how common,
everyday items such as bubblegum, engines, musical instruments
i.e. guitars, and sporting goods, such as snowboards are
manufactured. The show avoids showing a narrator or host
onscreen, and often doesn’t have employees of featured
companies speak on camera, and keeps human interaction with
the manufacturing process to a bare minimum. Someone off the
screen normally narrates it. Each show generally contains one
historic product. Due to there being no host there are generally
no interviews that take place.

3. The documentary is produced in the expository mode and
also the observational mode. The audience get to observe
how to make various products ranging from pinball
machines to baseballs, this mode is a good documentary
technique because it effectively educates the audience
with the voiceover guiding the audience on how products
are actually being made. However it is also an expository
because there is a voiceover, a prime feature of expository
documentaries and the voiceover isn’t actually a typical
feature of an observational documentary. The audience are
learning how to make these products therefore the
documentary-makers are exposing how to do this.

4. The Discovery Channel has been home
to many documentaries but the most
popular have been “Shark Week” first
aired in the late 1980’s, “Deadliest
Catch” and “MythBusters”. Its no
surprise by the channel name that this
channel looks at great discoveries and it
also has a great connection with wildlife
and animals. Sea creatures also are very
importantly regarded hence why the
donated a whole week to the Sharks.
These documentaries are used to shock
the audience and expose them to new
findings.