1. By Debbie Marques

2. Questions
 What documentaries have you watched ?
One born every minute, peter andrey’s bad boyfriends, cat
fish
 What documentaries have you enjoyed ?
Katie: the science of seeing again, big fat gypsy wedding,
undatables, jersey shore
 What documentaries have you not enjoyed ?
The world’s largest snake, natures wild feast
 What are some interesting or current debate topics in
world today would you like to learn more about?
IVF, the cures of cancer, animal testing
 What kind of topics would you like to see a documentary
about ?
 IVF
Female
Age: 22
Lives : UK
Working class

3. Questions
 What documentaries have you watched ?
One born every minute, supersize vs superskinny,
jersey shore, big brother
 What documentaries have you enjoyed ?
Cat fish , man vs food , the kardashians, extreme A&E
 What documentaries have you not enjoyed ?
56 up, bank of dave
 What are some interesting or current debate topics in
world today would you like to learn more about?
Genetic engineering, euthanasia
 What kind of topics would you like to see a
documentary about ?
Genetic engineering
Female
Ages : 17
Lives: UK
Working class

4. Questions
 What documentaries have you watched ?
Up in smoke, john snow’s Paralympic show, best of British,
knockout scousers
 What documentaries have you enjoyed ?
Secrets of pickpockets, undercover at the news of the world, the
secret millionaire
 What documentaries have you not enjoyed ?
My transsexual summer, bank of dave
 What are some interesting or current debate topics in world
today would you like to learn more about?
New cars in the market, new technologies, the movement of
technology
 What kind of topics would you life to see a documentary about ?
The movement of technology/ cinema
Male
Age : 39
Lives: UK
Working class

5. Questions
 What documentaries have you watched ?
My big fat fetish, up in smoke, secret millionaire, my kidney and
me, extreme A&E
 What documentaries have you enjoyed ?
Extreme A&E, secret millionaire, up in smoke, bums, boobs and
Botox
 What documentaries have you not enjoyed ?
The ancient skeletons of Peru, the royal history of pop
 What are some interesting or current debate topics in world
today would you like to learn more about?
Plastic surgery, how to keep a healthy diet, dead bodies after 5
years being buried
 What kind of topics would you life to see a documentary about ?
The whole process of plastic surgery
Female
Aged: 39
Lives : UK
Working class

6.  History documentaries are not as popular as
contemporary issues
 Males prefer to watch documentaries to do with sport
and technology
 Females enjoy documentaries to do with their bodies
and society
 Young people enjoy documentaries about
contemporary issues and mysterious cases (cat fish )
 Young males do not find documentaries interesting
and therefore do not watch as many as females.
 People tend to watch documentaries that link with
their kind of lifestyle

7. Should children be
What is meant my allowed to watch tv
Is gender created
feminine and from an early age?
biologically or by
masculine
society?
identities?
Do animals
think like
Teenage
pregnancy Topics us?
How is life
seen as a
celebrity ?
Teenage
Is aborting
social life Does gender
always
wrong? always have an
What is the
impact on the
difference What causes
school subjects
between and how to
chosen by
someone’s stop a heart
children?
gender to attack
someone’s sex?

8.  Is aborting always wrong?
 Should children be allowed to watch tv from
an early age
 Is gender created biologically or by society?

9. What would people learn about it ?
 Advantages and disadvantages of abortion
 What could take a women to have an abortion
 Statistics of abortion in the UK
 The religious view of abortion
 What society thinks about abortion
 What the foetus looks like week by week of pregnancy
What style of documentary ?
 This documentary would be mostly informative
 A little persuasive to those who think abortion is always wrong as some
positive sides will also be mentioned.
What would each episode be about?
1. Advantages and disadvantages of abortion.
2. Statistics and Testimonials of women who have carried and abortion
why they did it ? Do they regret it?
3. Religious and social view of abortion.  interviews of priests, pastors,
sociologist

10. What would people learn about it?
 the influence media has on children
 Advantages and disadvantages of tv in children’s life
 Statisctics about the dependence on tv children have today
 What makes tv attractive to children
 Does tv help children learn new things ?
What style of documentary ?
 Informative
What would each episode be about?
1. Statisctics of children dependent of tv and what makes it attractive to
them
2. Advantages and disadvantages of tv in a child’s life  interviews of
parents and children
3. The influence media has on children, does it help them learn new things?
 interview of sociologist, psychologist

11. What would people learn about it?
 Family, school and media have an impact on our gender
 Some sociologists see it as a social construction and
others argue that it is formed during primary socialisation
(family).
 Gender is used to describe the ways in which men and
women are expected to behave in society.
What style of documentary ?
 Informative
What each episode be about?
1. What is gender and how family, media and school has an
impact on it ?
2. How is gender a formed  interview people on street,
sociologists

12.  Is abortion always wrong ?
 Should children be allowed to watch Tv from
an early age?

13.  Definition of abortion : Abortion is the deliberate
termination of a pregnancy.
 Arguments against abortion :
 Killing people is wrong
a foetus is a person
killing potential people is wrong
 Causing pain is wrong
 Increasing tolerance of killing is wrong
 Arguments in favour of abortion:
 The foetus is not necessarily a 'person' with the right to live
 It is not always wrong to end the life of an innocent person
(in case of having to choose, conjoined twins)
 'Potential human beings' don't have rights (only active)
 The pregnant woman has moral rights too
 Is it better to have an abortion or have the baby for it so
suffer and have no conditions?

14. http://www.youtube.com http://www.youtube.com/w
/watch?v=dJ-r6Xag19c atch?v=TCifpbfQlOM&featu
Abortion is re=related Obama and
wrong abortion
http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=us_y9GP_-DA http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=sHWFLu
Priest talking
EBP_E&feature=relate
about
d Overview of
abortion
abortion

15. Advantages :
• Children may learn new
things
• Entertainment for them
• Learn a language
• Have family time
together
• Keep the child
company
Disadvantages:
http://www.youtube.co Children under 2 • Children may become
m/watch?v=81M2JUfcd should not be allowed antisocial
uA to watch TV. • Mix fantasy with
reality
• Have a different
image of the world
• Bad for their eye sight
• Affect their attention
in school

16. Use of interviews Aim :
 One born every minute • Make it clear to
audience
 Supersize vs super skinny • Informative
• Clear aim
 Lifers • Be aware of the
different points of
view
These particular interviews made the
documentary very informative and clear
of what the aim was. Therefore I would
like to use this particular technique in my
work.
All from channel 4

17. Aim :
• Audience understand the topic
• Make each point clear
• Backup each point given with
pictures
Use of supportive images • Inform the audience
• Get the audience engaged with
 Undatables the images
 Supersize vs superskinny
 One born every minute
Supportive images were very important in
the documentaries I watched because it
showed the audience what the topic was
really about and also the information was
sent out in a clearer way.

18.  Female
 Aged: 15-25 – average age in which girls
may think about having an abortion
 Interest- religion, education, society, facts
and statistics about abortion
 Social class : w/c and m/c, mostly w/c as
its mostly these who think about abortion
as they may not have enough money and
time to have a child
 Channel 4
 Time shown: 21:00

19.  Male and female
 Aged : 25-45 – average age that have young
children.
 Interest- society, children, influence media has
on young people
 Social class: m/c – usually m/c people have
more time and are more interested about the
education media may give their children.
 Channel 4 - real life issues
 Time shown : 12:00-03:00pm

20. Channel 4
 Contemporary life and relationships
 Provocative series
 Shown in series
 True stories
 Conventional
Time : 21:00
 likely to become talking point television
 Target audience

21. Channel 4
 Sociological
 Real life issues
 Conventional
 Contemporary topic in UK
Time : 12:00pm
 Target audience  time that parents are
home, waiting for time to pick up children
from school.

22. Use  Interviews
 Informs audience
 Shows different points of view
 Priest/ pastor
 Female who has had an abortion
 Sociologist
 Include experiences and perspectives

23.  Use Interviews
 Informative to audience of who is the person
speaking
 Parents
 Sociologist
 Psychologist
 Aim : Listen to different point of views

24. Use  Titles
 Informs audience : name and vocation
 Gives a little more information about the
character being interviewed
 Audience take information into consideration
 Used to help audience not get confused

25. Use  Supporting images
 Use it as evidence
 Get our point across
 Show footage of celebrities speaking about
the topic (Obama & Madonna)
 To get a clear aim of documentary

26. Use  Presenter/ voiceover
 Guide the audience
 Inform what is happening
 Make documentary more clear
 Have introduction to what is coming next
 Explain each point given

27. Use  statistics
 Informative
 Interesting to the audience
 Number of abortions made in the uk
 Persuasive – may change people’s opinion

28. Use  Statistics
 Informative
 Number of children dependent on Tv
 Showing what children do during their free
time
 What channel is the most popular

29. Use  natural lighting
 Making it more conventional
 Realistic
 Believable to the audience
 Audience take the topic more seriously

30. Use  establishing shot
 Informs audience where it is taking place
 Gives audience a hint of what it is expected
 Sends image of what it is like to be there
 Introduction to the topic

31. Establishing shot
Establishing shot of a See presenter talking
hospital, voiceover starts with about the topic
of a church and introduction to the topic
outside a church
Shot of presenter
Interview of a outside church Interview with
sociologist introducing religious priest
views

32. Shot of contraception Presenter introducing
Show interviews
and voiceover about the public’s opinion
it. about it
with the public
Show interview with a Interview with a
Statistics of
person who has had an psychologist informing the
mother’s feeling for her to abortion in the UK
abortion
do this.

33. Establishing shot of a Presenter walking by a
Establishing nursery with voiceover school and talking about the
shot of the bbc introducing the topic aim of the documentary
Interview of the public, Statistics of children Show more images of
showing images of who are dependent on children just watching
children watching tv TV tv

34. Presenter talks about Statistics showing that tv
the parents’ opinion Interview with is the most popular
about the topic parents technology that a child
uses today.
Presenter
Show parents Interview of a interviewing children
supporting their child
using technologies sociologist to hear their point of
view