Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Panorama Episode Analysis: Syrian Conflict


This episode is all about the Syrian War that began two years ago. It follows two women (Both volunteering to go out and endanger themselves) that were originally born in Syria but came to Britain to study medicines and medical care. When coming back into Syria, they see how terrible conditions are and decide to help out the best they can. Throughout the episode, we witness many serious things and many techniques in the program that the cameraman, the Female doctors and the producers use.

During the first two minutes, there have already been voice-overs; this is used for the introduction and also used to hook the viewer into the program more so that they want to continue watching it. As well as voice-overs in those two minutes, there are also close ups to see how the Female doctors react to the terrible conditions that people live in. At one point in the video one of the Female doctors start to cry and light a cigarette to try and calm her nerves and anger because no one is helping her country in what seems the never-ending War. Whilst the episode is playing, you can hear faint background music that plays behind people speaking, guns shooting, and many other things. The background music happens often throughout the episode.

In almost every scene, there is something that the viewers may find upsetting or dramatic. This can possibly make the viewer feel a bit depressed/upset or it may open their eyes to see how bad the situation actually is in Syria. There are also Interviews in this episode, which we see a man with five children that he looks after on his own, because a napalm bomb hit his wife. The man says that where they live is no place for two new-born babies, or any children, to live. He also says that it is terribly dangerous and that he doesn’t think he will be good enough to look after them children in that sort of world. 

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