3 Minute Wonders

A three minute wonder is a three minute documentary make by an amateur film maker and can bee entered into the Channel 4 competition. The aim is to broadcast up and coming producers and they also will receive an reward of £4000 and their shorts will be shown at 7.55pm every week day. Three minute wonders can be about anything and everything, they will normally feature a problem that is not in the regular news and is not shown to the public, or a way of life in our country and focus on one person.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwvgtp6KGBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygOwERPDNrg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AI6EttXiA


Watching these documentary's I have learnt that you can learn so much about three minutes. I like them because they highlight a problem and explain it and inform you about it. All of the documentary's above are reflective documentary's because they show the real story without the film maker intervening. and a narrator is not present.



3 out of 32 programs (9.4%) shown on Channel 4 on the 18/03/15 were documentaries, the peak times were around 10 am to 11 am and 9 pm and onward. The later documentary was First Dates which has been strategically placed so it reaches the target audience which is older people(25-50)re now sitting down to watch TV. The earlier documentary's Undercover boss Canada and Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home would appeal to the older ages and retired that won't be at work.

On the other had a gathered some figures from the History Channel, 22 out of 36 programs the 18/03/15 were documentary's(61%) this is a large percentage but we need to remember that this is a predominant documentary channel and has a large adult audience. From 7pm onward all but one program was a documentary, this is to interest it's older audience. The documentary's are very repetitive but this is because it's the main channel it's shown on.


BARB figures of documentary's.

As you can tell from above documentaries has a large percentage of audience overall. 

 




Bellow you can see that documentaries get a lot of attention and views from the audience, bellow Battlefields had 34 thousand views in one month which is a very good number for a television program.

On Channel 4 24 hours in A&E has a huge audience, this is down to channel 4 being a popular television channel and having a large audience. You could argue also that it's a documentary that you can relate to and is about something that is incorporated in day to day life.