The Great British Countryside • Research

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The Great British Countryside is a BBC production that looks into different parts of the UK and their countryside landscape. They go into the history of the countryside and look at how it is shaped that landscape that we live on today. 

Commentary and Presenters:
  • The presenters do lots of the talking in this documentary and they really carry  the narrative. This works because they are both famous actors so audiences will recognise them. With our presenter, this won't be the case so when it comes to decided what the presenter will say and what information we will take from our interviews, we will need to find a balance between them.
  • All the facts and figures are said by the presenters in commentary, this is something I think we should consider when writing our commentary as there are lots of facts that we want to include.


Actuality and Landscapes:


  • The programme uses lots of landscape shots and sequences of the location to show the audience where the show is set and to put them in the location with them. They also include lots of actuality shots of people feeding animals and boats in a harbour to show us what is going on and to make us feel like we are there seeing what is happening. I want to get lots of actuality shots to include in my documentary because we want the audience to feel like they are on the farm with the presenter and involved in everything that is happening. 

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