Extreme Engineering is a documentary series which is on the Discovery Channel. This program featured futuristic and ongoing engineering projects such as Transatlantic tunnel. First broadcasting on the 1st April 2003, this program is on it's ninth season and it's narrated by Danny Forster. It is related to our project by the fact that we are both looking at projects which are new and the development of certain sites to improve them. In our documentary we look at buildings which are taking shape or are already there with an overview of a building. Extreme Engineering focuses on one building project and explore it in detail for 42 minutes. The episode I'm going to analysis is the one which focuses on the proposal of bridging the Bering Strait.
With a documentary like this one, you normally have a narrator/presenter introducing you to the point of the epsiode, like in this one which is about if it's possible to build a bridge on the Bering Strait. In this set of documentaries you don't see the narrator appear, as the presenter as it wouldn't be possible for that narrator to travel to all the places that he goes in one episode. Normally if it's a documentary based in one place where you can get all of your contacts as close as that place is, you would have a presenter. Also if it's a suitable topic for someone to host such as things have have revolutionised the 20th century, like the James May's program called James May's 20th Century, it would be ideal for someone to host it. Also if they have fame from other types of TV shows, it might be a good idea to bring them into to get viewers. The extreme long shots of the bridges which are used as examples and the Bering Strait also is a trait for documentary such as this one. They use them to show the viewer everything whilst the narrator talks about the topic in hand for example how they would build that bridge of the Bering Strait.
Interviews are important in documentaries. This documentary is no different as they talk to experts who give their opinion on the issue. In this, there is people who say that this is possible and other who disagree saying it wouldn't work. Both of these people give extra information that the narrator couldn't be able to give as they don't have that amount of knowledge and also would ruin the documentary, if he was talking all way through. Interview as an essential thing if people would want to educated and informed.
With a documentary like this one, you normally have a narrator/presenter introducing you to the point of the epsiode, like in this one which is about if it's possible to build a bridge on the Bering Strait. In this set of documentaries you don't see the narrator appear, as the presenter as it wouldn't be possible for that narrator to travel to all the places that he goes in one episode. Normally if it's a documentary based in one place where you can get all of your contacts as close as that place is, you would have a presenter. Also if it's a suitable topic for someone to host such as things have have revolutionised the 20th century, like the James May's program called James May's 20th Century, it would be ideal for someone to host it. Also if they have fame from other types of TV shows, it might be a good idea to bring them into to get viewers. The extreme long shots of the bridges which are used as examples and the Bering Strait also is a trait for documentary such as this one. They use them to show the viewer everything whilst the narrator talks about the topic in hand for example how they would build that bridge of the Bering Strait.
Interviews are important in documentaries. This documentary is no different as they talk to experts who give their opinion on the issue. In this, there is people who say that this is possible and other who disagree saying it wouldn't work. Both of these people give extra information that the narrator couldn't be able to give as they don't have that amount of knowledge and also would ruin the documentary, if he was talking all way through. Interview as an essential thing if people would want to educated and informed.