Industries

Below is a list of famous Documentary industries that I have been researching into, this should help me with my documentary as I could watch documentaries they have made and then have a decision on how I could make my documentary.

 

Discovery Channel

 

Discovery Channel (formerly The Discovery Channel) is an American satellite and cable specialty channel (also delivered via IPTV, terrestrial television and internet television in other parts of the world), founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. It provides documentary television programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history. In the U.S., the programming for the main Discovery network is primarily focused on reality television themes, such as speculative investigation (with shows such as MythBusters, Unsolved History, and Best Evidence), automobiles, and occupations (Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch); it also features documentaries specifically aimed at families and younger audiences.

 

Example documentaries from Discovery Channel:

The ultimate climb

The Da Vanici Code: The true story

Finding Atlantis

The true story of Saving Private Ryan

 

BBC Documentaries:

 

 

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting statutory corporation. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. It is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff.The BBC is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London and has major production centres in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, London and Salford Quays and smaller production centres throughout the UK.

 

Example documentaries from the BBC:

The Secret Life of the Sun

Henry VII: Winter King 

The Star Trek story

14 Days

 

Channel 4 Documentaries:

 

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.

 

Example documentaries from Channel 4:

 

First dates

Secrets of the pickpockets and shoplifters

One born every minute

Food Unrapped

 

After watching 1 out of the each examples listed above (Finding Atlantis, The Star Trek Story and Secrets of the pickpockets and shoplifters) I have found that they all have a common trend of interviewing a person then cutting to another clip whilst they are still talking. This is very common in documentaries because it is used to keep the viewer interested by providing new things for them to view and hear. I will be using this technique in my documentary.