Would the documentary Amazing Grace by Bill Moyer be effective in a Christian University setting? The simple answer is no. This film fails to engage and educate young Christian people. Moyer should have played the emotional aspect and explained grace deeper, but this film could be used educationally. The definition of a documentary is; consisting of official pieces of written, printed, or other matter. The definition of an effective documentary would be official pieces that inform by educating the public with entertaining tactics. If Bill Moyer expects to get the attention people from the age of 18 to 23, then he better start to understand that he needs to be a little more interesting.
We don’t know from just listening to the song that it is about about slavery at all, we infer that it is because of the word “wretch”. Through research we know it is indeed about slavery because we have newton’s records. As a whole we are okay with slavery, we look back on history and aren’t phased. In this movie we are comforted, when we definitely shouldn’t be. Whenever they spoke of slavery there …show more content…
For starters it was shown in our class. I wouldn’t say that it was overly effective in educating us on the song, but definitely a useful tool in our writing experience. This could be shown in a religion class; it would be helpful to explain Amazing Grace or the topic of grace. It might also be shown in a history class; the documentary goes through history of story through time. It could be useful in describing slavery or even the history of Christianity. It had religion, culture, and background story. The movie also has historic famous people who can relate to the song interviewed like Johnny Cash. Talks about the artist and the development throughout time. An effective documentary shows history and practically explains it. This film does educating facts, but they are not presented in the most effective way
We don’t know from just listening to the song that it is about about slavery at all, we infer that it is because of the word “wretch”. Through research we know it is indeed about slavery because we have newton’s records. As a whole we are okay with slavery, we look back on history and aren’t phased. In this movie we are comforted, when we definitely shouldn’t be. Whenever they spoke of slavery there …show more content…
For starters it was shown in our class. I wouldn’t say that it was overly effective in educating us on the song, but definitely a useful tool in our writing experience. This could be shown in a religion class; it would be helpful to explain Amazing Grace or the topic of grace. It might also be shown in a history class; the documentary goes through history of story through time. It could be useful in describing slavery or even the history of Christianity. It had religion, culture, and background story. The movie also has historic famous people who can relate to the song interviewed like Johnny Cash. Talks about the artist and the development throughout time. An effective documentary shows history and practically explains it. This film does educating facts, but they are not presented in the most effective way