Genre Analysis - "Underage and Pregnant"

Title of Programme: "Underage and Pregnant"

Type of Documentary: Fully narrated

Themes:
*Underage pregnancies - preparing for them/coping afterwards
*Trying to get benefits/trying to sort out money problems
*Trying to get council housing

Narrative structure:
*Multi strand
*Linear

Camerawork:
*Mostly closeups of the interviewees
*Two shots of the couples talking

Mise-en-scene:
*Rooms in the house.
*One mum to be was interviewed with children's videos in the background maybe to emphasise how young she is.

Editing:
*Narrator speaks over the footage of the couples.
*Interviewees speak over cutaways of them doing things with the baby.
*Cutaways (footage) of where they live (London and Scotland)

Archive Material:
*Stills of a mum when she was pregnant
*Photos of another mum when she was a baby.

Graphics:
*"Handwriting style" font saying the mother's names with small graphics of flowers and birds, etc. around the names.