Factual programme

Factual programme~ life and death row.





Factual programme; Life and death row is a documentary that has one series and 8 episodes it is about people that have done wrong and how are sentencing execution the documentary explores the different views people have on the sentencing and looking the offenders view. Life and death row is shown on BBC three at 10pm and its target audience is young adults and older people most of the offenders in life and death row are usually young so the programme educates young adults that this could happen to you if you went in the wrong direction and it is shown at 10pm because the programme is not suitable for younger children and teenagers therefore by placing it on BBC three at 10pm the less children will watch it because they are usually in bed early for the next day at school. The reason it is shown on BBC three is because BBC three holds most of the interesting documentary suitable for young and older adults therefore the more of life and death rows target audience will watch it.

 The key techniques that are used;

In life and death row  they have used reporters and old news that are where filmed when the crime took place in life and death row they usually interview the offender and the offenders family also to get an outside option on the execution they use a normal ordinary person which is seen in most factual programmes this is so the audience can get a clear understanding of how different pope le see the situation making them want to add an opinion in as well.

 In life and death row  The cameraman follows the family of the offenders and the person has been murdered family this is to show how each family  is coping with the situation the audience then get the different you of the situation from each family and the audience start to create some kind of sympathy towards the offender. It also shows how each family now have to get to terms with what is going on also showing that they do they live after the situation has occurred. There are hardly any voice overs in life and death row.in life and ever in life and death row  The media always is involved and in the documentary they show news reporters standing outside of where the offender is being executed this makes the documentary more lifelike and real for the audience.