Panorama Syrian conflict analysis

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Review/analysis of syrian conflict

Panorama is a programme that does expository documentaries also journey documentaries. Today I will be writing an analysis based on the documentary we watched today which is Syrian conflict.  The documentary is about two British doctors who work at queen’s hospital in Essex who have volunteered to travel to Syria to help the civilians in their hospitals and also to check out their facilities. At the start of the documentary it is introduced with voiceovers using catchy lines, statistics and facts. There is also a moving montage surrounded by the key points. The first 2 minutes of the documentary needs to hook you in otherwise you will get bored and want to turn it off straight away.  When watching this documentary there was several traumatizing incidences in one hospital they talked about doctors that have been working 18 days straight with no rest, they have to live in the hospital giving blood to people that need it as there is none left and was given emotive music in the background as we was being told. These thing that are happening makes people think that the conflict in our country is nothing compared to the conflict in Syria, it makes our government sound great and we are lucky to be where we are now. The government targets people such as western journalists and foreign journalist and many have died in travelling to Syrian. When watching this documentary I have noticed that everything that is being talked about is emotional, emotional music is played in the background, this is used to guide us throughout the documentary. We believe that we are in the right and it’s all the governments fault but that might not necessarily be true we also havent  had a spepective from the governments side. Interviews have been taken place with a lot of mixed emotions anger, hatred and very much emotional for example: There was the napalm strike on a school killing 10 children and injuring several others, the name of the hospital could not be said as the Syrian government has been targeting the hospital facilities.

 Audience Profile

The audience for panorama would be ages 30-70 both male and female depending on the documentary. Ages 16-35 would watch panorama depending on their interests. An example of this would be the documentary on Syrian conflict which would not relate to my age group which is 16 it would relate to people who have interests in current affairs, multi cultured people, people in care professions, history teachers, and professors. Also depending on the social grade scale too.

Size of the Audience

This is the size of the audience since the 21st April 2013. Panorama was listed 16th on the board with an outstanding 5.14 million views out of the 30 programmes listed on the board. But compared to the amount of views produced on the 28th october 2012 which was 5.96 million panorama was 11th in the board out of the 30 enlisted. The reason for this i believe is that it was a story on a well know celebrity JIMMY SVAILE- WHAT THE BBC KN.  

comparing panorama to similar programmes.

Panorama is a TV series on the BBC focusing on current affairs. Panorama first aired in 1953 and it is also the worlds longest running public affairs television programme.

Dipatches is a TV series on channel 4 also focusing on current affairs like panorama.

As you can see panorama has got more views than dispatches.panorama was 16th on the viewing board with views of 5.14 million whereas dispatches was 7th on the viewing board with only 1.60 million.this shows that more people enjoy watching BBC1 than Channel 4.