2. DEFINTIONS
• Observational is experimenting possibility's
• Reportage this is reporting news by TV and other media platforms.
• Reconstruction it means to rebuild something.
• Interviews is someone is asking questions and someone else is answering.
• Objective weighs up both sides doesn't make a judgement
• Subjective is influenced by a persons feeling or taste or opinion.
• Biased unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something.
• I don't think its okay for a documentary to be biased because a documentary is meant to
be truthful and reliable and if its biased or subjective it isn't reliable for example if there's a
documentary about arsenal football club it cant say "arsenal are the best in the world" with
out any solid facts.
3. ANALYSIS
ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE
First episode - February 9, 2010
Channel – Channel 4
It has 9 series and 91 episodes, so therefore the format is limited series. The purpose of this
documentary is to educate and for entertainment. If you watch it you could learn how a
nurse works. You can watch it on these platforms TV schedule on channel 4, 4od or
YouTube.
The documentary is about baby's being born every minute and documenting how family
react and nurses react. The target audience is for people who are about to have a baby or
people who are curious about how things work in labour. The mode of address is formal for
the audience. The programme is not biased, its subjective because it focuses on the feelings
of the people the interview.
Techniques used – Interview
