A three minute wonder is a piece of moving image text which lasts for as long as three minutes.
What is the aim/purpose of a three minute wonder?
The aim of a three minute wonder is to create a media text which lasts for three minutes in total. The purpose of a three minute wonder is to create a mini documentary to allow the audience to see the makers opinions and interests.
What sort of topic would you expect to see in a three minute wonder?
The sort of topic you wold expect to see in a three minute wonder would typically be documentaries about anything what can interest that certain individual; you usually see a lot of documentaries based around the historical stories about things or places.
Examples of three minute wonders
The reason why I like this particular documentary, is because I am personally particularly interested in tattoos and body modifications. From watching this mini documentary I have learnt that despite getting tattoos now, they can be covered up later on in life to mean more to that person. This documentary is the format of an observational documentary. I think that this is because the maker of the documentary included a few different techniques instead of letting the camera roll.
The reason why I like this documentary because the piece is supposedly meant to be a piece of art. I like hearing different peoples opinions on the matter. From this I have learnt that the open minded people enjoy looking at something from different perspectives as well as expressing their own. This documentary is an interactive documentary because you can hear someone asking the others in front of the camera but you can't see the person asking the question.
The reason why I like this documentary is because there are more shots of the different views from where the subject was. I thought that it allowed the audience to see the meaningfulness of the documentary and allows the audience to form their own opinion with no influences. From this I have learnt that people with a life threatening problem still have their liking, they still have those things which keep them happy and keep them content despite knowing the danger which they are in. I think that this documentary is in an expository documentary because there is voice over commentary with other images of something other than the main subject. I think that this documentary is both descriptive and informative.
Market research into the documentary format and its current viability
In the first five channels, from 3:00pm to 8:00pm there are a lot of factual programmes shown. Most of the factual programmes are shown on the BBC one channel. BBC two also show a lot of factual programmes throughout the period of time but not as much as BBC one. I also think that channel 4 shows a lot of factual programmes throughout the peak time however channel 5 doesn't, that channel shows more soaps and game shows.
These are the BARB figures for the factual programmes on channel 4.
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