Just like Georgina, Allison and a few other people in the class I think, as well as NETWORKED MEDIA I am also taking BROADCAST MEDIA this summer where we have to create a TV show and a short radio documentary. Our group chose to do our TV project around “Coxy’s Big Break” about the Abottsford Convent. On the other hand, the radio project had to imitate the ABC 360 documentaries and we did our project about how people with disabilities are seen in our society nowadays.
Both projects deal with journalism/documentaries and I could not be happier! Since I was little I have always loved documentaries, it could be a documentary about ants, or serial killers, I would always be staring at the tv screen.
I thought I would share one of my favorite TV documentary ever, by Louis Theroux who is the me one of the best and most talented reporter/tv journalist of our time.
WHEN LOUIS THEROUX MET THE HAMILTONS
That is the only video I could find, but if you haven’t watched it yet please do!!! Its really worth a look.
“When Louis Met…” is a series of documentary films made by BAFTA award-winning film-maker Louis Theroux. The series was originally aired on BBC2 from 2000 to 2002.
In the series, Louis Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme as they went about their day-to-day business, interviewing them about their lives and experiences as he did so. In the episode “when Louis Theroux met the Hamitlons’ the Tory MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine were arrested during the course of filming following allegations of indecent assault which were subsequently found to be false.
I first started watching the documentary and thought “well this is pretty boring…” Even Louis during the course of filming at some point says something like he doesn’t know where the documentary is going… but the next day they get arrested and that is where the documentary really ‘gets intense’.
This episode was also ranked in the 50 best documentaries of England.
This is another amazing (yet hard to believe) documentary by VICE that Louis Theroux also covered in one of his documentary called “The most hated family in America”