How ‘The Detectives’ links in with the BBC Editorial guidelines

How ‘The Detectives’ links in with the BBC Editorial guidelines

Introduction: The detectives have their own set of editorial guidelines that have to be followed, and they are followed differently for the show itself.

1.2.5 Harm and Offence

“We aim to reflect the world as it is, including all aspects of the human experience and the realities of the natural world.  But we balance our right to broadcast innovative and challenging content with our responsibility to protect the vulnerable from harm and avoid unjustifiable offence.  We will be sensitive to, and keep in touch with, generally accepted standards as well as our audiences' expectations of our content, particularly in relation to the protection of children.”

In the detectives they are cautious about how this documentary can cause harm and offense. Especially if there are children around since it could cause confusion to them. It may also cause an offense or a disturbance towards adults or other rape victims because it can bring back memories and it would make them feel uncomfortable. It also would just cause a bit of discomfort in general so that’s why it is probably put on at a later time of the day.

Fairness

“Our output will be based on fairness, openness, honesty and straight dealing.  Contributors and audiences will be treated with respect.”

The documentary deals with fairness on both sides, meaning that with the police and the victims it is all honest and up-front and getting an open, honest and fair look on the two sides of the documentary. It also shows that the audiences would be given an honest look into this real life situation.

Privacy

“We will respect privacy and will not infringe it without good reason, wherever in the world we are operating.  Private behavior, information, correspondence and conversation will not be brought into the public domain unless there is a public interest that outweighs the expectation of privacy.”

‘The Detectives’ respect the privacy of the victims extremely well and would only show something uncomfortable to them if the victim themself gave consent. And the producers of the show only ask of that for purposes of getting viewers. So that means that all the private things, all the secrets, would be shown for an entertainment purpose but still with the consent of the victim.

In conclusion I believe that ‘The detectives’ do take the editorial guidelines into consideration and do follow them very well in order to give good programs.

'The detectives' an analysis

‘The detectives’ Documentary analysis

Introduction:

-I am going to analyse the documentary ‘the detectives’. This documentary focuses on the man Ray Teret. Otherwise given the nickname ‘Savilles Chauffeur’. This also shows how police are having the cope with child molesters and rape victims. We also observed and analysed the filming and techniques used in the documentary. We observed this documentary to gather information on the various ways a documentary could look. The documentary can offend and harm.

Mode of address:

Content

Interviews and voice-overs:

In the documentary we see interviews; all though we didn’t see many shots of the actual interviewees, instead, we saw archive footage of the victims as children and then some cutaways. The specific subject they were being interviewed about was a touchy subject so it was understandable for the victims to not be shown. It was to protect their identity for their own protection.

            So as a form of protection the ones who wished to remain anonymous or wished only to be shot for a few seconds were given archive footage and various cutaway scenes so that their voice could be heard but not their face.

Throughout the documentary a different voice over, like a narrator, was featured in the documentary to give us more information and guide us through the story.

Other interviews gathered were from witnesses to explain what they have seen from other accounts of rape.

The other Molester was called Paul Fenner a rapist who sexually assaulted a young girl whilst she was on her way to school. He plead guilty later on in the documentary after trying to deny his crime. The witnesses showed where they saw Paul Fenner acting suspiciously.

The last lots of interviews gathered were from the police officers and special detectives. They explained their jobs and how they have to deal with sexual predators in the country. They also explain how they gather the truth from the suspects and then get all the information they can from the witnesses and victims.

Police tapes:

The documentary features many various pieces of archive footage from the 70’s that show some of Teret’s victims as kids around about the time that they were sexually assaulted. Police interviews with the victims were also shown, giving us in depth interviews, showing police tapes of the police making their way to interviews. Photographs from the seventies and onwards were shown to show how and where all the past assaults happened, how it looked in the past and what was around at the time of the assaults happening.

Through the documentary, radio extracts from Ray Teret’s Radio show were played; it featured extracts from the 70’s to present day.

Narrative:

The documentary features a parallel narrative, which is a narrative with two different stories together. Like a link, especially since they are both about the exact same problem. We get a narrative about Ray Teret, who is linked with Saville, and was sexually assaulting women in the 70’s.

We also get a narrative about Paul Fenner, a younger man from present day who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl whilst she was on her way to school. Fenner plead guilty to assaulting the young girl even though he was previously denying it.

The narrative was mainly there to help guide us or keep us caught up when we missed a section in the documentary.

Visual Imagery:

The visual imagery in the documentary shows every bit of archive footage and cut away shown, it features various cutaways and overlaps the shots as the there is driving shots, which links to the various camera angles, like birds eye view, worms eye view, close up, side shots and shoulder length shots. It helps add a little bit more of a detailed view.

Examples of cutaways that featured the police talking to suspects are:

-Shots of corridors in the police station

-Recording devices

-Cassette tapes

-Clocks

-Pressing record

-The counter

            They are featured to help us give a feel of the police station.

This documentary was in the theme of a fly on the wall, like spying. It featured one of the victims gardening; it showed how the victim is trying to continue with her life even though it was such a difficult time to overcome.

Conclusion:

In conclusion the documentary was very dramatic and featured various scenes that I thought were personally horrible. But the documentary did give insight on what happens to sexual assaulters.

How watching ‘The Detectives’ made me feel?

How watching ‘The Detectives’ made me feel?

I have been watching a documentary called ‘The Detectives’ the documentary is about people under suspicion of paedophilia, mainly about a male called ‘Ray Turret’ who was convicted on more than 14 accounts of rape.

Overall I say this documentary made me feel sick, I felt rather angry at the fact that there are still rapists out and about, it makes me think about my own safety out in the real world. What If i was next? Or even someone else?

Although I agree with specific bits of the documentary that are featured, I believe that bleeping the victims names and interview shots out was very kind and respectful to the victims’ privacy so that it is confidential. I also believe that the awareness raised toward the situation was very helpful for people in the future; so that they can notice and prevent when it happens so that less people are victims.

It also gives insight on how police deal with situations that are given to them. I am glad that there is also a special police section especially for cases such as this.

I didn’t like how they drifted off topic throughout the documentary; they would focus completely on the police itself rather than the main story. I also didn’t appreciate the exposure of vulnerable people that were featured in the documentary.

The music was also more enjoyable music rather than serious; since the subject was a serious matter.

The documentary however; does give and feature opportunities. Such as letting victims know that they are not alone and that people are there to help out if need someone to talk to.

I also know that it shall help to expose rapists, and it will help to arrest more rapists.

This entire documentary does pose threats towards people as it can scare various others and it can be unfair to wrongly accused suspects.

I overall felt sickened at the footage of the wallpaper being stripped at the apartment where Ray Turret used to live. Various names, star ratings and phone numbers were found on the stripped walls. It just shows how far Turret and his accomplices went into creating such a long list of young and vulnerable victims; it illustrates just how long they must have been doing all that horrible stuff to those poor victims those poor victims. The fact that the walls were papered over twice made it seem like they really needed it hidden.

It upset me seeing all those victims breaking into tears and stuttering their words.

I believe that the detectives did a good job, digging deep into the suspects throughout their interviews in order to get all the possible information. The detectives also did well in getting as much info as possible from the victims even though it was horrifying and a sensitive subject, I felt sorry for those poor victims. I was sickened when viewing the scene of the documentary where all the names of the victims, complete with ratings and their numbers, were found. My opinion was given because it shows just how bad it had gotten, just how far the rapists had gone in getting victims and their details.

Once knowing and seeing just how bad the emotional damage had become with these victims. I was happy to know that the detectives were helpful towards them, and manage to make it as easy as possible and as relaxing as possible whilst interviewing them, so that they were a little more comfortable around the detectives.

In conclusion the documentary overall sickened me, and made me understand more about how the police handle this form of offence.