Analysis of a Factual Programme

Factual programme: Kurt Cobain: montage of heck

Introduction:
Format: it is a documentation of a popular grunge rock singer that has committed suicide at 1994
Purpose: to inform others about his tragic death and the reasons that had led him to commit suicide and who might have led to his end. This makes people discover about his sudden death.
Platform for broadcast: you can find this documentary on various subscription websites like amazon or Netflix.
Target audience: this factual programme is aimed at adults as it consists of a lot of graphic and explicit scenes.

Key techniques used:
observational: this made the audience feel like they are part of his life, re living his historical moments as a star and as a normal every day persona.
interviews: there is a lot of interview reenactments in this documentary probably as it was to controversial for the real people to discuss about.

What is the narrative structure and narration/mode of address?

This programme has a lot of old footage to show the throwback times of Kurt Cobain and his earlier life with his parents and later on his own family. This makes the audience feel attached to all the people as they all got a glimpse of his personal life you can see that in certain clips like this one:

The documentary is not at all biased as it tends to look down upon and even blame certain people for Kurt Cobains death and those people are even family members. This makes the programme quite trustworthy and different form the rest as it really shows the true and raw colours of the situation.



This programme is highly subjective as it raised the question that there could've been a possibility that Kurt Cobain's beloved wife could've led her own husband to suicide. This factor makes the audience want to keep watching and ask their own questions which makes the documentary highly subjective on a lot of platforms.