Panorama Last Chance Academy Analysis

The episode of Panorama called Last chance academy is about a school where they believe that students who are disruptive and badly behaved that end up being permanently excluded from their schools is still entitled to a good education and they believe they can make these students achieve 5 GCSE's by the time they leave. This is secondary research through observational studies of the school.
Throughout the episode there are interviews that are semi structured, this leaves questions asked open for discussion and more in depth answers but can also be controlled by the interviewer to make them less time consuming. The voice over in this episode is a female voice which shows a caring side to the school and shows that they want them to succeed. A female voice over is used because people associate females to care for children and a school is full of children so this shows a good representation of what the school is like and what they want their students to achieve. Observations of the school are shown whilst the voice over tells facts and figures that the school has already achieved or is aiming to achieve. The observations are used to show what the school is like and how the students act. They also go into detail about some of their students and interview them to find out how they feel being at the school. The context of the episode is that it starts by the voice over explaining what they do at the school how they treat the students then it ends with a summary of how they have helped to give these students their last chance to make a difference for their own lives and show them that they need their education as it is one of the most important things in their lives so they will be able to pass their GCSE's and get a good job and do well in the future. This shows that people who want to achieve their potential still can with the help of the staff at this school. Its interesting to the audience because it shows the students opinions as well as just the staff's views, this appeals to a teenage audience because it tells them that they are being listened to and the staff do care they just want what's best for the students and that they will put the effort in to help them if the student themselves also puts the effort in to concentrate, this will also appeal to parents because they might want their children to be at this school because they might be able to have better concentration or maybe they have a child with dyslexia they might want them to be there because this episode features the staff helping a dyslexic student to be able to read.