How do they film 24 Hours in A&E?

[CatInheritance]

Especially the people who are unconscious when they're brought to hospital. The cameras must be rigged up in advance on certain days? It seems quite an invasion of privacy.

I wondered this too. I guess they film and then ask for consent to show, if refused they destroy the footage?

There is a programme called the making of 24 hours in a and e if you can find it.

The filming takes place on a long term basis so the cameras are already fixed onto the walls. You don't really notice them. They wire you up with mics while you're in the waiting area but after that, you just forget about them and act normal. As normal as you can in A&E!

Ooh I must look it up, thanks!

There are signs up on the premises to notify filming is taking place, they roll pretty much all the time but only use cases who have given permission and signed a release. Same as Saving Lives at Sea

So if you're knocked over etc and in the ambulance at that time, do they chose you and then film until you're conscious?

The cameras are all the time, just like CCTV. It's only broadcast with permission.

They film everyone/ everything the whole time, they don’t need to chose anyone.

So if you're knocked over etc and in the ambulance at that time, do they chose you and then film until you're conscious?

I have seen footage of people being transferred into ambulance/air ambulance or whatever & the narrator giving details of the accident & the medics / police talking but the patient has their face blurred out. They have obviously not given permission to be broadcast. The programme makers, presumably, not wanting to let a juicy incident go to waste have filmed in the hope of getting consent but it was denied.

The production assistants hang around the waiting room like angels of death, eyeing up people and occasionally approaching someone for a signature on a (provisional?) release. Bloody annoying. I can't understand how anyone welcomes it.

I love this programme. I bet they get a lot more takers than refusals.