What’s so special about how One Born Every Minute was 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. In addition, the scope of the rigged camera set-ups meant that simultaneous action within the unit could be captured at the same time.
