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Thesis
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Through the employment of documentary codes and conventions, audience intellectual or emotional attitudes about the themes, ideas or messages are evoked, challenged or reinforced thus constructing a central idea or message.
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Context:
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Restrepo (2010), a documentary about US soldiers deployment in the Afghanistan war directed by journalist Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, follows the 2nd Platoon of Battle Company on a 15-month deployment in the Korangal Valley, northeast Afghanistan.
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Target Audience attitudes
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Restrepo targets audiences from a Western demographic who hold attitudes that soldiers are tough and almost dehumanized without emotions.
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How attitudes are challenged?
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These attitudes are challenged through documentary conventions such as archival footage and interviews.
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Filmic techniques used and what they do
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Filmic techniques are employed that includes the manipulation of mise-en-scene, interviews and archival footage that aims to evoking intellectual and/or emotional response and thus challenge the audiences attitudes of common stereotype of soldiers.
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