Without a presenter, produced by La Fábrica de la Tele (Save me) and without much more information than a video with a logo and background music. This is all that is known about Focus, the new and mysterious program that Mediaset opens this Monday on Cuatro at 10:50 p.m.
“Investigative and denunciation journalism; exclusives and current affairs addressed with a differentiated, original and alternative approach; and a narrative that traps the viewer in the story of each report make up the essence of Focus”, says Mediaset about this new format.
The programme, which dispenses with the figure of the presenter “to focus the viewer’s attention as much as possible on the stories it addresses each week”, will be structured around three or four 15-20 minute reports, prepared by a team of journalists specialized in field investigations, led by Carlos Arévalo.
“Robert Capa used to say that if your photos aren’t good enough, it’s because you’re not close enough. There’s no doubt that Capa knew how to focus well. Focus understands journalism in the same way. If your information isn’t good enough, it’s because you don’t “You’ve gotten close enough. Every day we face a tide of information, counterinformation, and disinformation. It’s time to wipe the windshield wipers and seek sharp focus to understand what is happening around us,” explains Óscar Cornejo, executive producer of program.
Each one of the pieces will be presented “with a hypnotic narrative and a multi-screen based visual presentation”, in which the graph and the data are mixed with the images and with the reporters’ own narration so that the viewer does not miss any detail.
In the premiere program this Monday, Focus investigates the figures and cases of bullying in Spain as a result of the recent event that occurred in Sallent (Barcelona), in which two twin girls jumped into the void and one of them died.
The program talks with parents of children who have suffered bullying and have attempted suicide, with experts in the field and with minors who will narrate their experiences of bullying in the classroom in first person.
In 2012, the seven Bellido Durán sisters asked the Virgin Mary that if their mother recovered from cancer, they would form a musical group in gratitude. This is how Flos Mariae was born, whose surreal themes of a religious nature soon began to be parodied on radio and television and to go viral on social networks until they created a true social phenomenon, further fueled by the unique aesthetics and clothing that the seven young women wore in their video clips.
Although his mother passed away three years later, Flos Mariae continued with his musical project for six more years, accumulating millions of views of his songs. Is the story that these seven sisters have told about their family true? How are the relations with the brothers whom they have disowned and why? Focus has located the Bellido Durán to answer these questions.
In another of its reports, the program addresses the lack of vitamin D that afflicts the Spanish population. The synthesis of this nutrient comes mainly from exposure to sunlight, and despite the fact that Spain is, together with Portugal, the country in Europe with the highest number of hours of sunshine, our vitamin D levels are much lower than in other countries. With the testimonies of doctors and experts, the program responds to this situation, which generates numerous health problems and translates into health spending of more than 5,000 million euros per year.
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