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