Analysing 2 documentaries which are king of laughter and please and thanks

Please and thanks

The please and thanks documentary is about what people think in general about manners and how often people use them. The story is that how younger people do not say simple words such as sorry,please and thank you as much as the older people do and as much as they should do. the purpose of this documentary is too make people realise about how often they do not use manners. The target audience of this documentary is all people from every age group because the documentary talks about people in general rather than a particular age group. the mode of this documentary is that observatory documentary because the people that are interviewed are saying what they think  and they are observing peoples manners and they are saying what they genuinely feel about it. The way that this documentary is constructed is that it follows the codes and conventions of documentaries because it is factual, it uses different types of camera shots such as long shots and close ups and and it asks the people about what they think. To watch this documentary go to:


http://www.4docs.org.uk/competition/view/349/Please+%26+Thanks+%28+Best+Version+%29

King of laughter

The king of laughter documentary is about how people mainly old do not laugh anymore as much as they should. it talks about how laughter is good for you and makes you feel a lot happier rather than sitting around depressed being in a mood. this documentary mainly concentrates on a town called walsall because according to a latest poll walsall is the unhappiest town in britain and one man called Belachew Girma  who holds the world record for the longest laugh has come to change that.The target audience of this documentary is people of walsall in general but it mainly concentrates on old people. The purpose of the king of laughter is to make the people of walsall laugh because they are the unhappiest town in the UK. The mode of this documentary is that it is an interactive documentary because it interacts with a lot of people by making them laugh and talking to them. The way that this documentary is constructed is that it follows the codes and conventions of documentaries because it consists of lots of different camera shots such as establishing shot and medium close ups. this documentary is factual and it interacts with people by talking to them and making them laugh. To watch this documentary go to:


http://www.4docs.org.uk/films/show/5/King+of+Laughter

My documentary idea

The idea i have about a documentary is perception in sport. i think i want to do this documentary because athletes especially in football are seen as role models when they are not because some have affairs, some give racist abuse and some fight on the pitch. i might do this documentary because footballers especially are seen as role models to young children who watch and admire them. i want to talk about how they affect children with there stupid antics such as fighting, taking drugs and being racist because children watch them do these things on TV and then repeat them at school, at home anywhere where there is a public enviroment for example when zidane head butted the referee in the world cup final which was televised all over the world. after the final was over children all over the world all over the world repeated this action in sunday league games setting a bad example. i think i want to concentrate mainly on racism in football because in the last couple of months racism has gone out of hand and senior players are saying racist comments which is a bad influence on young children who repeat the things that they see on TV.

analysing concrete circus

This documentary has a narrative side to it because it talks about underground sport and how it is now being recognised as a sport and as talent rather than being recognised as a misfit.. this documentary follows codes and conventions of documentaries because like many documentaries it is based on a true story and there are people being constantly interviewed.  There is a narrative side to this documentary because it tells the story of people who do this underground sport and it questions them on why they do it and how they came out about doing these sports.

The camera shots in this documentary vary because in the interviews the shots are close up and medium close up but when the athletes show there talent the camera shots used are medium close up, close up, extreme close up and long shot. Another code and convention in this documentary is that there s a narrator saying important points in between particular parts of the documentary. The narrator tells, explains and gives extra information about each sport that is happening. Also the the narrator gives extra information about the athlete that is doing each sport. The documentary is about 5 athletes making 45 tough films all of them showcasing there talent in there specified underground sport.

Expository Documentary

A documentary is a factual film made based on a true story such as a boy who is blind can still see, the documentary will be made following him around and showing how he lives his every day life and thorough research in the documentary will be made by questioning scientists about how he can still see. An example of a type of documentary is expository documentary which consists of the following:


1.  expository documentaries have distracting entertainment qualities of the fiction film 


2.  expository documentary has commentary in the background


3.  Expository Documentary Addresses viewer directly, w/titles or voices


4.  it Advances argument about historical world 

Codes and conventions of documentaries

The code and conventions of  this documentary is that it is a story which all documentaries have. also another code and convention is an interview so they are interviewing the man about how he sees his pregnancy whilst they play the flashbacks.

another code and convention in the documentary is that the story is based on something that is medical which most documentaries are about. another code and convention in this documentary is that it is a factual film because it is story and most documentaries are  based on a true story.

Another code and convention for documentaries is that the target audience is mainly aimed at families so they can watch them together. another code and convention is that if the documentary is about a medical condition or people who can do amazing things with a serious medical condition than research in depth is done on the condition.

Another code and convention in documentaries is that if the film is based on some sort of problem the solution to the problem is sometimes found. another  code and convention of documentaries are sometimes based on a sad or interesting story.

Another code and convention of documentaries is that sometimes they have a narrator telling the foundation of the story. they have a narrator introducing the documentary, the narrator also speaks at certain parts of the documentary explaining points that are said with detail.