Factual program:
My big fat gypsy wedding & News program:
This factual program is categorised as a "fly on the wall" style factual program. This is because the way that it is filmed is by having a person film the daily lives of these gypsies at the time of marriage, and when they do actually film the program the people that are in the program just act as their normal selves without thinking too much about the camera. One of the programs had a section in it which was a group of young girls were all at a party, and normally you would think that the girls are going to be well behaved and act elegantly, but the girls in this case act as if the camera is not there and just do what they want.
The difference between these two factual prgramming are that the news program are a lot more formal in first cases as they are a show that is being watched by a lot of people and the information that they give to the audience is of important matters, which require it to be said with good language. One similarity between the two programs is that they have the ability to be biased without actually being biased themselves. The news program must be impartial and neutral so they dont lead their audience in following a certain side of a strory. However, they would be able to use interviews with people to get their own views, and they would normally use people that are going to have one-sided arguments so that the news can still portray the different sides of the isuue, while still being neutral. My big fat gypsy wedding also use interviews to show bias and unbias views similarly to news programs, as they would choose the actual interviewees before actually starting the program.
Some differences between the two factual prgramming are that the news program would usually be seated in studio with very smart closed and would talk very formally as they are addressing a mass audience, but the other factual programming would not need a studio because the place where they live is their studio because it is a fly on the style factual prgram abd will usually be based in the actual houses of the people involved in the program. News programs are also normally seated behind tables and would also have field reporters in the actual location of the isuue, but the other program would not need any of this because they are filming the footage at the atual location through out the whole program.
Documentary analysis
The documentary that I chose is called, Honda presents: ‘living with robots’. From the start of the documentary it is clearly shown that the documentary is all about robots and how they have been developed through time from being simple tools for any ordinary human, to being highly sophisticated equipment that can be used to do intricate tasks, like surgery and other operations. The information that is given about the documentary at the first 1:00/1:30 minute is called the exposition. This section of the documentary is known as the hook of the documentary and is responsible for attracting the audience and making them want to see more. An example of the exposition is, a fishing rod and fishing line with a hook, The start of the video is known as the bait and is put into the sea/audience, and is played until the fishes/audience hooks on to the fishing line, then after the audience is hooked the rest of the video is there to reel in the audience slowly but definitely. The documentary has a good balance, because the start of the video explains the opinions of the general public and how they see robots as ‘the bad guy’ and as a take over the world attitude. However, this is the only part of the documentary which shows the bad views about robots, after this they just go on to say how robots can be extremely helpful with human interaction and how they have developed robots to help with common household chores.
This documentaries exposition conveys the video to be quite accurate as it tells us how we have been living with minor robots all the time in our daily lives, which is a good point for the documentary as the exposition is the most important part of getting the audience interested. As you go through the documentary there are different archival footages that have been sourced from hospital scenes that use robots in the surgery room and scenes of some movies with robots being developed through different stages. These clips are very useful in giving the audience an understanding of how developed robots really are, and the difficulty in making only one section of the robot. These clips are also used to represent some of the robots that have been created over time. The overall feeling of this video to me is that it is biased. My reason for this is because the people that are interviewed throughout the documentary are all people that have been directly, or very closely, affected by robots. For example, at the start of the film they show many interviews with people that are related to sci-fi movies, and they explain their views on robots, there is also one interview with a cardiologist, this also shows that the documentary has included interviews with experts. This is good for the video as it gives the audience a sense of reassurance as there is an expert saying that robots are good, and also that expert is a surgeon, whom people know as saving people’s lives, and the audience would then think that if he agrees with the concept of robots he must be right. This is also one of the downfalls of the documentary as there are very few, if any, interviews with ordinary people and what they might think, and the interviews that are done with random people only say good things about robots.
In the documentary there is also a sense of actuality. The actuality/realism in this documentary is that the concept of ‘living with robots’ is already plausible as some people have already experienced living with robots and have explained the success in the operation. There is also a possibility of the documentary having reconstructions. Reconstructions are when actors/actresses are used to re-create a scene of particular importance. At the start of the documentary there is a voice over that is used to tell the audience about how our ancestors first picked up a rock and used it as a tool for daily living, and the person/object that they use to show our ancestor picking up the rock is by using one of the most advanced and human like robot ever made, ‘Asimo’. This is a very clever technique that is used as it shows that this extremely advanced robot can behave just like the first group of humans to walk the Earth and behave kindly and gently. This gives the audience a bit of understanding of how the robots can be the same as us humans and completely harmless.
This documentary is also very factual. The reason for this is because it is very informing on the specifications of the robot and how the robot was made to move by studying the human body and the bi-pedal system, which allows us humans to move. Other facts were also shown like how the actually making a robot is an action of high precision, accuracy and dedication. In the documentary there is a part which points out how we need to work with robots and other electronic things to allow for smooth operations and successful outcomes.
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