Wait Till Your Teacher Gets Home- Documentary

This is a documentary that was shown on BBC Three.
Broadcasted at: 2.40 am
On: 5th of November.
Duration: 60 minutes
Category: Family and Relationships

The Link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vl3zc/Wait_Till_Your_Teacher_Gets_Home!/#recommendSource=tv_episode_page

To help me get more ideas and understanding about documentaries watching the first 5 minutes were crucial for me. And whilst doing so I gained a lot of knowledge and also came across different filming and editing techniques in the introduction of the documentary.

• The beginning of this documentary starts off with a long shot of school children walking- alongside non-diagetic rock music.

• There is then a low angle shot of the school's name plaque as well as an establishing shot of the school; with the diagetic sound of the school bell. This is important as already within the first two seconds of this documentary with the inclusion of two differnt shots the location has already been set clear to the viewer.

• There is then a mid shot of the school pupils during the school day, going to lessons. This again sets the scene and lets the audience know the main theme or location as to where this episode is set.
  

The director introduces the main character through a mid shot of her arguing with two people at this stage we do not know who they are.


at 0.19 seconds the voice over starts. Which formally introduces the main character of the documentary.

Structure of the Interviews.

The structure of this interview was also something that we already decided to incorporate into our own documentary. The way in which this interview was structured was that the teacher directly answered questions to the camera. As the viewers we cannot hear the questions being asked but when listening to the answer giving it is clear as to what he may have been asked.

Voiceovers

The type of voice overs used in this documentary was extremely effective as, we see "Loretta" showing lack of work in the classroom while the teacher's voice over says exactly this. This is effective as it allows the viewers to picture and see what the teacher is saying at the same time co-ordinating images with visuals

Then from the teacher's interview being a voice over it then switches to where she is talking directly to the camera. This editing technique is effective as it keeps the audiences attention.

This is displayed in the print screen shots below.
(Where the voiceover begins)

(Where the interview then switches to the actual teacher talking)

Overall from this documentary I have learnt a lot of things that I would like to include in our documentary. This includes:

• A different technique to voiceovers
• Showing clips from the actual documentary in the first few seconds allowing the viewers to see what the documentary include.