24 hours in A&E

Type of documentary Themes and narrative structure

•24 hours in A&E is a Fly on the wall documentary as it films the subjects without interference

•The documentary is multi strand as there is lots of different storylines taking place. It is Closed as there are no loose ends and all questions are answered. It is

Non Linear as it Doesn't follow time order use of flashbacks and flash forwards.

Camera Work

They use close ups in each interview with

the person who is getting interviewed looking

directly at the camera.

They use lots of high angle shots of the

hospital to show everything that is

happening at one time.

They use over the shoulder shots

of the doctors talking and helping

the patients.

Mise-en-scene

• They use dim lighting throughout the programme canting that sad things

were happening .

• They whole documentary includes doctors in nurses dressed in there work

clothes.

• When the interviewer is interviewing the interviewee they are dress in the

uniform.

• There is shots of ambulances connoting the emergencies that take place.

Sound

• They use phones calling beeping ands of ambulance sirens

at the start of the episode to show that there is

emergencies happening.

• They increase the speed of the beeping to and end with a

long beep connoting it could be the end of someone's life.

• They use a male voice over who spoke in a cockney accent

showing the audience were the programme is set.

Editing

• They use montage of clips in the opening credits to show

what the programme is going to be about.

• Zooming is used throughout the programme to show us the

pain that some patients are in.

• They use narrow depth of field when the interviews are

taking place so the focus is only on the interviewer.

Archive material

They use a countdown of

the time at the beginning

of the episode.