GENRE ANALYSIS-Documentary Analysis (Special Deliveries)

Special Deliveries

Type of Documentary

Themes

• Birth

Narrative Structure

• Starts with footage of women giving birth.
• 'Esther' the community midwife visiting a patient and interviewing included throughout.
• Individual footage/time with each patient.
• Conclusion of all births and a collage of all the mothers with their babies.

Camera Work

• Footage of a day used to speed up-shows the business of a materity ward.
• Interviews-interviewee's looking into the space.
• Interview of community midwife driving in her car.
• footage of outside the dilivery rooms still hearing the sound from inside.
• Interview taking place of woman on an operating table.

Mise-en-scene

• Hospital equipment and machienery behind interviewee
• items such as coffee and sweet used to make the staff look friendly and their job seem also friendly and normal.
• Books-intelligence.

Sound

• Voice-of-God, using a woman's voice as it would suit the documentary and make it seem more personal and sensitive as it is women who give birth.
• Heart beat sound of a monitor of the baby from inside the womb-non-diegetic sound on opening sequence.
• Diegetic sound from inside the door of a delivery room.
• Calm, happy music (non-diegetic) when the babies have been born.

Editing

• Video's fast forwarded to look quick
• Cutaways of birth between the interviews
• Cutaways match the voice over when they say specific words, e.g "room 5" image of room 5.

Archive material

Graphics

• Names/subtitles
• Channel in te top left of the screen, 'BBC'.
• Credits and a thankyou message to the midwives at the end.