Documentary reality
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This document discusses and analyzes the genre of reality television documentaries. It focuses on shows like Educating Essex, Geordie Shore, and Big Brother. It explains that reality TV differs from other genres by emphasizing drama, arguments, emotions, and comedy to engage audiences. Reality TV can vary in format, from shows about partying 20-30 year olds to shows helping people find dates. The document also discusses how reality TV shows are widely accessible on streaming and on-demand services, and that their target demographic is typically students who enjoy the casual language and comic situations presented.
Documentary reality
- 2. Within this PowerPoint I will be researching and exploring reality tv documentaries, examples are: Educating essex Geordie shore Big brother
- 3. The genre of documentary that I will be focusing on is reality tv the reason for this is because I like the idea of watching something comical and entertaining in which reality tv is known for. Reality tv uses varies things to make it different to other genres for example; to make the audience want to watch the tv programme they add in drama, arguments, emotions, comedy- these are all things that make reality successful and enjoyable to watch The genre
- 4. Reality tv can be different depending on the show. For example Geordie shore is about a group of 20-30 yr olds who party all day whereas the undateables is about finding dates for people who struggle with love. The one reality show I enjoy is educating Essex it is comical with sarcasm in which is what I find interesting bout it. The reason reality tv separates itself from other categories such as crime because it is based on real life people and what they do, also some programmes such as educating essex and bad education are based on a school, it is acted however due to the environment and location being a school it is classed s reality tv Examples
- 5. Accessibility Most reality tv shows are available on demand and catch up if people miss them. Shows tend to be repeated next day in the morning and at their original show time, for example- big brother is shown the next day aswell as they have their own app to watch the previous shows, there is also a mtv, itv, bbc, itvbe, app which shows the latest shows on tv, you can go on demand and search in anything that you want to watch in which comes up. Some are also distributed on NETFLIX
- 6. Audience The demographic audience for reality tv usual category E-students, the reason being is the language the people speak, the graphic thin gs such as nudity and explicit language and the comical side is usual aimed at a younger generation Here is an example of reality tv aimed at younger veiwers, there is a warn ing shows like Geordie shore and ex on the beach in which mention about explicit language, nudity and sexual themes. The running times are 1 hour long.