The Trust Ward D57.

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                The Trust Ward D57

        The Trust is the second episode in a five-part documentary set in Nottingham’s Queens Medical Centre, which focuses on the hectic ward D57, the acute admissions ward. This ward appears to be the busiest ward in the hospital and it is shown to expose the dire state of the NHS.

        This programme is designed for older people as it is on fairly late at night “9PM” so it isn’t made for children. This is because older people are funding the NHS and they have the right to vote.

        The programme makers try to get across numerous biased messages using editing techniques. It raises very serious points and the programme clearly wants the audience to develop a serious opinion about what and whom they see. Many editing methods are used to put these highly biased opinions to the audience.

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        In the first thirty seconds the audience is shown visuals of scans, x-rays and medical records very quickly, this is accompanied by monotonous sounds, crackling, droaning, synthesized sounds as well as machine sounds. This immediately tells the audience this programme has something to do with a hospital. These sounds and visuals create a dull gloomy atmosphere and let the audience know this programme isn’t about something humorous but something very serious. As the visuals and sounds finish the camera appears to be upside down. The person watching sees what a patient would see if he or she was being wheeled ...

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