Research: The Wedding Day Trailer

I have decided to watch some trailers for TV shows about weddings. These are short and are used to intrigue and interest audiences enough so they are persuaded to watch the whole documentary.

The first one that I found was called 'The Wedding Day' which aired in February 2017 on Channel 4. The trailer is linked here.



The show is about the coming together of two families and the unfolding drama of the marriage. It is available on All4 on demand so I will be watching this in my spare time.

I also want to consider the day and time my documentary will air. This show has aired on the same platform I feel my documentary would be best suited to. The Wedding Day aired on a Monday at 10pm which may be a suitable time for my documentary to be aired.



My purpose of my documentary is to entertain and inform and part of this involves escapism. This plays in Blumlber and Katz' theory of uses and gratifications. After seeing the advert, audiences may be more likely to actively seek out the documentary e.g. trying to find it online, recording it for later viewing or planning it watch the show when it airs.

There is a review to this documentary linked here from The Telegraph.