Following my research into LGI, I discovered that the popular Channel 4 programme One Born Every Minute was filmed in the Leeds hospital in 2013.
I decided to do some research further into this. Working on the maternity wards myself, this is something that took my interest in particular and I felt I could work with this by using my own personal experiences as well.
"One Born Every Minute hits screens tomorrow (Jan 2) and this time will show babies being born at both Leeds General Infirmary and St James’s Hospital.Previously only the city centre hospital has featured on the Channel 4 programme. But for the second series filmed in Leeds, cameras are following expectant mums at both maternity units as mums are sometimes sent between them if one is full. Producers said on the busy wards it sometimes felt like one baby was being born every 30 seconds, rather than every minute.A spokeswoman for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said: “We hope the public enjoy seeing the inside workings of our busy maternity service for a second year running.“This programme gives a real insight into the joys and challenges our staff face on a daily basis.“Reaction to the first series was extremely positive and this year a wider team will be featured.” "
"Programme-makers Dragonfly wanted to film in a busy maternity ward and were delighted with the reception in Leeds.Assistant producer Emma Jones told the YEP afterwards that both the television team and ward staff enjoyed the experience.“We were so welcomed by the team at the unit. Neither they nor us wanted us to leave at the end of filming,” Ratings for the series also peaked at five million viewers, the highest ever for the programme. The cameras returned to Leeds last autumn to follow a whole new set of families, including some using the hospital’s new active birth equipment.A spokesman for Channel 4 said: “Our cameras follow mums between the two hospitals as the midwives juggle the load and do all they can to stop the whole city closing its doors to mums in labour.”"
"How the show is filmed
One Born Every Minute is a first of its kind in capturing the many different perspectives within a room as labour and birth takes place. Because the cameras are rigged and fixed at different points in the room they are uniquely placed to capture both the mother and the father or partner’s point of view, or the mother and midwife’s, simultaneously. In traditional filming this could only occur if there were multiple camera crews, which is not practical or appropriate within the confined spaces of a labour and birth room.
The experience of labour and birth is so emotionally charged that the ability to capture every detail of an experience in this way makes for compelling television. The lack of a crew means that the viewer is in the privileged position of sharing this most personal experience without being obtrusive.
Forty remotely operated fixed cameras were rigged in different locations around Southmead Hospital in Bristol (series 5 and 6), Leeds General Infirmary (series 3 and 4) and Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton (series 1 and 2), and kept in place over three and a half weeks. Because the cameras were fixed there was no need for a camera crew, and the footage from each camera was fed directly to an outside unit where a team of producers and directors were on shift 24 hours a day. Cameras covered a range of locations from the labour and birth rooms, to the reception area, and the corridors. In addition there were single handheld cameras to follow the action beyond the rigged area."
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