Comparing Television Documentaries and Their Gratifications
In this Essay I am going to watch four different documentaries, all
with different topics. I will analyse them and then work out how they
offer gratifications to the audiences. I will write about what affect
they have and why they are used. I watched four different
documentaries with four different topics: Historical (Pirates - The
Golden Age), Mystery (Vanished - The plane that disappeared), Nature
(Blue Planet) and horror / mystery (The Burkitsville Seven). All are
very successful and have many different ways in which they
individually gratify the audience and explain the set topic. First I
will explain about how the documentaries are similar and how they
differ, I will then talk about how they are individual in there own
ways.
The Pirates documentary is a documentary based on the lives of pirates
and how they lived when they were most victorious and most feared. The
next I will watch is the horizon documentary - Vanished, this is the
story of how a plane over thirty years ago vanished without a trace.
The third documentary is The Burkitsville Seven - This is the story of
how seven children were mysteriously kidnapped and murdered. The final
documentary is the Blue Planet; this takes us to the bottom of the
ocean never seen before in other documentaries.
All the aspects of each documentary are there for a reason, some may
be there for one point and another might use the same technique but
mean it in a different point of view. A good example of this is the
documentaries narratives. They all have them but some are used in
different ways. All of the documentaries have...
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This documentary was quite good, I liked the topic and it has many
features that gratified the audience. It is quite good because it
takes you into the lives of the pirates and has more than one story
line; it is though not unique in its story line as it has been done
before but is still very good
The Burkitsville Seven
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I think this was the best documentary in the ways that it gratified
the audiences. It is especially good because the producers and
directors would have to work twice as hard because it is a
mockumentary designed for promoting the Blair Witch, the film makers
had to make each piece they used look original and not made up. They
also have an excellent story line, it is very spooky and leaves the
audience in suspense.
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... This example shows how there are two sides to the story and this can
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...analyzing a social issue because neither of the perspectives solely addresses all the possibly circumstances of an issue.
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