I started by watching a children's television programme which was on BBC 1, and this was at about 3.20pm on Wednesday 4th November '09. This programme was on Cbeebies.. which is children's version of the adult programme's on CBBC. The programme i watched was called mister maker - this is just a children's TV programme making things. For example the episode i watched they made a toy bird in a birds nest.
Ceebies is set for children of a pre-school age so from 2-4 years old roughly, and for the older children you have CBBC which is primary school age. When it came to studding Cbeebies i had chosen to look at the 'real' programmes. When i say this i mean the programmes which aren't cartoon - and the ones who have presenters, just like mister maker did! However from all of these type of programmes i have looked at i have realised that all the programmes have something in common. This is the colour choices. All of the 'real' children's programmes are mostly set in white studios which can occasionally be dim-Ly lit - For example Mister Maker is lit on a dim blue background. I think this is because the children's eyes aren't distracted away. On the other hand there are a lot of bright coloured things around - and i think this is to contradict the white background and makes the children's focus. Even though things aren't cluttered but from what i took from mister maker it can be quite busy.The image below is a picture from Mister Maker. From this image you can see what i mean by the busy for ground and the duller background.
The first thing and the most noticeable thing is the characters. The Characters of this show are overly excited all of the time - and you can tell this from the picture its self. The characters are always very excitable and i think this is because they are from a children's show - if they show excitement the children will be excited. Just like the wall's the clothing is also very exciting and bright - this may also be to attract attention.
The next point i have to make is about the speech - and this is that the speech is clear and understandable. The speech is many of the children's programmes is slow and repetition is occasionally used. One point i have noticed about many children's TV programmes is that they don't have any people with accents - this may because younger children maybe able to understand them but at the same time I'm not sure. It may just be that the programmes i have watched don't have people with accents in. The point i made about repetition is very clear as children like repetition as it comforts them.
The last point i have to make about what i watched is the sound. This means anything from the sound effects to a theme tune. The sound effects in this programme are clear as they are very noticable. For example from the eposiode i watched - when they are sticking something down they make the sounds stronger so you would know what was happening. I think this is a good thing to do as it makes children pay more attention. There is only a small thing to say about the theme song, and its the same as many theme songs. This is that it's short yet very catchy. This is the same idea they use in TV adverts - its to keep the tune in your head - a bit like productive selling.
