Creation of a social awareness format for Spanish public television: Héroes invisibles

Introduction: Produced by RTVE in collaboration with Taifas Comunicación, Héroes Invisibles is a documentary series that portrays the life of expatriate Spaniards working on different humanitarian aid projects. Each episode focuses on one or several social conflicts such as: child malnutrition in Af...

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Published in:Revista Latina de Comunicación Social 2019-01 (74), p.1565-1579
Main Authors: Cerdán Martínez, Víctor, Villa Gracia, Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Audiences
Disaster relief
Documentary films
Evolution
Expatriates
Format
Humanitarian aid
Public television
Rescue operations
Scholarships & fellowships
Sequences
Television
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Summary:Introduction: Produced by RTVE in collaboration with Taifas Comunicación, Héroes Invisibles is a documentary series that portrays the life of expatriate Spaniards working on different humanitarian aid projects. Each episode focuses on one or several social conflicts such as: child malnutrition in Africa, the consequences of the war in Syria, irregular immigrants in the United States, and rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean. Methods: Based on Nichols's documentary modes of representing reality and the editing styles of Bordwell and Thompson, and Aumont, Bergala, Marie and Vernet, the authors analyse the creation and evolution of this format produced for Spanish public television. The main objective is to evaluate, from a mix-methods approach, the evolution of the audiovisual narrative of this television format, which had an audience of over 110,000 viewers on the International Channel of TVE and RTVE 2, and on the official online platform of this channel. Results: The format has transitioned from the predominance of observational sequences and interviews in the first season to the use of expressive narrative dynamics during the second season. Conclusions: The format of Héroes Invisibles has evolved according to the demands of the channel, but it has not experienced significant changes in viewership from one season to another. Keywords: Narrative; documentary; television; production; creativity; viewer.
ISSN:1138-5820
1138-5820
DOI:10.4185/RLCS-2019-1399en