Documentary 1- 'Bringing up Baby'

  

The opening scene to this documentary immediately grabs the audiences attention as it goes from what appears to be a part of the world but then dissolves into a dandelion showing that what you may think your seeing may not be what your actually looking at. 

There are different conventions used throughout the documentry there is avoice ver of a males voice, Actuality footage of the nature showing the real life happenings, the music which is used compliments the scene and there are graphics showen at the begining of the documentry telling the audience the title of the series 'Natural World' Underneath this is the logo for the programme that the documentry is shown on, by having this there its showing the audeince what channel they are watching.

There are close up shots of different animals from around the world of the mother helping the child. Graphics are shown again with a sub title 'Bringing up baby; Natural history of a mothers love'.

The camera then cuts to an aerial shot of a forest with clouds above it this sows how hight the trees are, the graphics are shown at the bottom of the clip with the narrators name. It then cuts to a baby monkey in the arms of its mother. and what the mother does with her hands to protect the baby. Then it cuts to the family of monkeys this shows the area in which they live and who is there to also protect the mother and baby. Then as the voice over is talking there are actual footage of nature and the beautiful areas which arent really shown to humans. it then goes to underwater life and what the audience may not know about underwater animals and how they are born into this world it shows footage which you wouldnt expect to see, this is good to have in a documentry and it grabs the audiences attention and makes them watch it to till the very end. Afterwards it seamless edits into a speders life cycle, the mother tries to feed her babies however they dont understand who there mother is so they start to eat her, the mother spider allows her children to eat her because she knows if she doesnt then her babies would starve, this information is very useful to have in a documentry as the audience that dont know about spiders wouldnt expect it.

After watching the first 5 minutes of the documentry it grabs the audiences attention by telling them real life facts which they might not know about, and will leave the audience into wanting to know more about the natural world.