Documenatries on TV

Friday:

BBC1:
Planet Dinosaur- exploring the prehistoric world of dinosaurs. 4:30pm
BBC2:
Digging For Britain- Alice Roberts goes in search for our elusive Stone age ancestors. 8:00pm
Channel 5:
Police Interceptors: Police officers dealing with day to day crime 8:00pm

Saturday:
BBC1:
British Olympic Dreams: meet withs famous athletes and talk about their sports. 1:30am
ITV1:
People do the funniest things abroad: People doing funny things on holiday 3:30pm
Channel 4:
RedTube- Funny, weird, extravagant clips from the world wide web. 11:45pm
BBC3:
Worlds Craziest fools: Mr T tracks down the worlds craziest fools. 8:05pm


Monday:
BBC1:
Motorway Cops: motorway cops catch up with the drivers who try and cheat the system. 9:00pm
ITV1:
Wildlife Patrol: About looking after animals. 12:05am
BBC3:
The Truth about child brides: finding out what its really like as a child bride. 9:00pm

Evolution Documentary

We found our idea from the Daily Telegraph. This idea being about the missing link.

Evolution has many different public views due to their religious veiws.

Most Religions believe that the missing link is an abomination. The missing link is blasphemous. Whereas others find it hard to believe that after all these years a missing link is found.
It was found in South Africa. Scientism are fascinated by this new discovery.

We researched the topic by asking public opiniosn of peope in Henley Town centre.

We had a very interesting interview with a lady who had done documentaries previously in her life. She was very happy to talk to us about our questions and queries and take into account what research and work needs to be done before the release of the documentary. She named certain production companies we could go to.

This no doubtingly would help our research and start us off on a foundation goal as to which direction we needed to go. She agreed that this would make a good documentary and could be aired on channels such as; Channel 4 and Horizon BBC.
As well as in-debt scientific information, I want to look at how, what and why it effects peoples religion. As well as looking at other articles and other information upon the subject.

Definition of Documenatry

Documentaries

Definition of a Documentary:  Consisting of, supported by, contained in, or serving as a document or documents. Also designating or of a film, TV program, etc. that dramatically shows or analyzes news events, social conditions, etc., with little or no fictionalization.
The definitions give for the word "Documentary" by a variety of people all have differermt interpretations of what they think defines a documentary. Some believe its to interpretate actual facts but then some others think that documentaries should act on our hearts.

Children on 9/11- this helped me to see how so many young children of my age and even younger were effected with their parents being killed. Its inspring to see how some of them have changed or started different things in the life to honour their parents. A girl took up wrestling as her Dad always enjoyed it and thought she should do it.

Big fat gyspy wedding: It very different to something like 9/11 documentaires, its strange but also interesting to see how other familys choose to live their lives and their certain rules and regulations they have to follow to be part of the family. Aswell as that how their culutre can be percieved to us as violent and strange but to them its normal and obviously respected.
If documentaires should act on our hearts i think they should be on personal experiences or personal interests to enspire people to do things they think they couldnt do. For example if you saw a documenarty on someone who participates in the parallel olypmics and are very succesful and somone who was in a wheel chair and was ashamed and didnt think they were worthy, could watch it and be inspired to take up a sport even with a disability and even become like the person in the documentary..

The selling of a SERIAL KILLER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExhihAZGxg

Aileen Carol Wuornos

"She was a prostitute who admitted to killing six middle-aged men in 1989 and 1990, luring some of them by posing as a stranded motorist in the Central Florida area. After trials involving her detailed confession, pleas of self-defense, prosecuting testimony by her lesbian lover, and occasional abusive outbursts towards the jury, Wuornos was convicted and sentenced to death. Appeals over the next 10 years were finally stopped at her request, and she was executed by lethal injection in 2002."

http://www.news-journalonline.com/special/wuornos/

Types of footage used in the opening: Interveiws, Archive footage, real life news bullitens, photos, voice over. Keeping the story going and keep the audiences attention. The function of the news bulletins and archive footage is to make it more beliveable and the voice over is used to in "the voice of God" style, which makes the audience belive him.

The voice over gives infortmation about Aileen and her life it also tells us about the people she had murdered and the viticms family members. Also it tells us about her execution.


We find out about Aileen (the centeral subject) and how she is a bit mental. We find out she is on death row.


The documentary opening is simalir to the opening of a fiction film as we get introduced to the main characters. Also we know about the situation plot and it attempts to attract the audience with the visuals.


Name of documentary: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER
Date of production: 2003
Film maker/ producer: Nick Broomfield
Sub genre: Crime
Context of production: Michiganc anf Flordia
Purpose: the purpose is to inform people, expose how it happened and reasons for it and also maybe educate people.
Use of selection: Aileen being interviewed, interveiws with friends and family, a few shots at the begining of the documentary of the victims family, interviews with people who knews Aileen. Their was no footage or interviews with the police or with the victims family members.
Narrative sequences and editing: There are a lot of interveiws then footage of were she lived and voice over of Aileens background it keeps the veiwer hooked and interested all the way through and builds suspense of the final day she actually gets executed.
Use of interviews: The interviews were very basic to give you a full understanding of the simpicity of the documentary the camera is often held still in place and the sound is seemingly uneditted to give that live feel.
Noddies: they are frequently use throughout the interview
Presence of crew: At somepoints you can see the crew but most of it is audible.
Non-diegetic sound and use of music: Music related at the her, and music she wanted played at her funeral.


Activity 1
As the documenatry is only about Aileens side of the story and not the polices veiws or victems family members veiws. I quite like Aileen, to me she does seem a vaguely insaine, however very honest and is happy with being executed. I think she is very brave for being able to want to do that. After hearing what her childhood and life before inprisonment was like i had a small understanding of why Aileen is like how she is. However that does not jusitfy killing men. She confuses me alot as she says how it was self defence but does not want to admit it as her execution will be changed again. That leaves me thinking if that was true why would you not want justice. However she has made the police out to be corrupt, if these were true accusations they would of been looked in to. I respect the Aileen for being able to own up for what she has done and accept the fait or death.


I believe Nick Broomfield, did show Aileen as what she was, he showed interviews of her admitting what really happened and her admitting she should be killed and if she was let out she would kill again. However he only interviewed friends and family of Aileen who are overall going to have a postivie veiw of her. Their was no interveiws with police as i said before so she could be really different when not being filmed. I think Nick Brromfield wanted her to be percieved as generally an ok person ad how her death was unjustified and how there should of been more interveiws and infortmation given from Aileen to the police.


Im not sure i belive Aileen deserved the death penatly, as firstly i belive death is not the answer, it menas they have done a sin and dont really have to suffer more than two minutes for it. Other people may think differently but i belive they should serve their time in misery and learn of they have done is so wrong. I dont think their was enough research and invetigations to be able to kill her straight away.


Newspaper articles of Aileen

'I can't stand being in here, it's just too awful'
As his film Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer opens, documentary director Nick Broomfield talks to Polly Corrigan

 

Aileen Wuornos: At the time of her arrest for the murder of seven men 

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Rage: during the final interview, the day before her execution 

Polly Corrigan

12:00AM GMT 19 Nov 2003

"Ten years after making his first film about the trial of Aileen Wuornos, America's first female serial killer, Nick Broomfield opened his front door one morning in 2001, and was served with a subpoena to appear at the final appeal before her execution. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, which is released today, follows events from his appearance in court to Wuornos's execution in October 2002.

Having claimed that the seven murders she committed were in self-defence, Wuornos changed her story at the last moment, saying she acted in cold blood and wished to die immediately. In the film, Broomfield seems convinced that this admission is more to do with the fact that she simply could not cope with life in jail. Broomfield describes death row as "a form of legalised torture." By the time Wuornos was executed, she had copied the bible out three times by hand. Her mental state was precarious, to say the least.

While Broomfield never denies the fact that Wuornos was a murderer, she is portrayed in the film as an essentially sympathetic character, and the murders she committed as the desperate acts of a woman who had led a tragic life. It becomes clear that Aileen, far from being the man-hating, lesbian killer portrayed by the US media, is herself the victim of scandalous abuse and violence, homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction and possibly even incest.

The film makes a devastating case against the death penalty and although Broomfield remains reasonably neutral throughout the film, in person he is quietly outraged.

"You either say we have the declaration of human rights so killing someone is unlawful, unacceptable - or you don't. You can't then be executing people yourself; it rubbishes the whole thing. The whole idea is to break the circle of violence. Aileen had an incredibly violent life and her execution was just a completion of that violence."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3606954/I-cant-stand-being-in-here-its-just-too-awful.html

5 Documentaries

5 different youtube based documentries:

Gasland:

Is a dramatised documentary to impact the US viewers in that their goverment is highly corrupt and in crisis. This documantry targets gullible viewers to believe that what they show in 'gasland' true, and not as streched as reality shows.
staged target audience- young adults and above informative educational although slightly bias Restrepo: a true story again slighlty bias, to give a real life perspective to what afganistan's most deadly location holds. this documentry is very dramatised but doesnt come across as unbelievable as the genre is war, and anything is believable in war.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe1AeH0Qz8

 

Inside Job

in this film a reporter interrogates bankers  and the government in America in the late-2000s financial crisis. The trailor uses many clips of the interviews, to show the intesity aswell as that they show peoples views on the whole situation, but only views which are agaisnt the Bankers and Goverment. This is a stagged documentry its a one sided story. The documentary is not educational The target auidience is people who are interested in politics,mostly directed towards Americans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBZfsb7OO_k

Exit through the gift shop
Exit through the gift shop is tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his fascination with street art. There has been debate over whether the documentary is genuine or a mockumentary.There is a politcal tone underneath this film, directed towards the goverment and police. In this trailor they use music, no narrator is used. ETTGS is neither informative or educational as it doesnt teach the viewers an ything. It is a non fiction documentry as it isnt stagged. This documentry is directed towards people who are interested in street art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiGHcJ7bfnA



Restrepo 
A documentry directed towards the american goverment, its based on a tpic which many people have a strong opinion on therefore it is more likey to be viewed. Again this documentry is a one sided story, it is agaisnt the goverment. its a powerful story and hits home to alot of  the viewers.
In the trailor they interview soilders who where in the film, also taking clips out of documentry of the action. i believe Restrepo is partly fiction as they lead people to believe life on the front line is always as displayed on the documentry, where as the directors only cut out the non action part of the films.
Restrepo has a wide target auidience as most people these days are affected by the war.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvUdruvbdmI


Wasteland
Wasteland is an upbeat documentry about the life of people who life in a garbage dumb. It is based on poverty, on how people live in such bad conditions. The documentry pulls on the viewers heart strings. This documentry is stagged,  the directors created the main situation therefore it is fictional.s wasteland is a feel-good documentry and isnt based on such a popular topic it can be targeted towards anyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbbNKHKR3qU&feature=related