Pathos In Winged Migration

In the film, Winged Migration you learn all about different specie of birds and are taken through their journey of migration. The title of the film gives great insight into what the movie is about; a birds main goal in life is to migrate and survive. As the film progressed it became clear that the main argument of the film is that birds and humans are more than capable of cohabitating, but humans interfere too much with the birds sole purpose of life. In order to achieve an effective argument the producers of the filmed appealed to pathos,incorporated music to tell a story, and used the birds perspective.
Firstly, in Winged Migration the appeal to pathos is evident from the start. It is very important that the producers of the film appeal …show more content…
For example,the first scene of the film is birds peacefully resting in a meadow when interrupted by a young boy chasing the birds away. The scene changes from a relaxed environment to a stressful environment once the boy appears. This scene appeals to pathos because the audience is left feeling bad for the birds, who are clearly helpless in the constant battle between bird and human. In order to achieve an effective argument they not only had to make sure that the audience felt compassion for the the bird in the beginning of the film, but throughout the entire film. The producers are able to seamlessly appeals to pathos within the rest of the film. On multiple occasions during the film, a similar sequence of scenes is used to highlight a specific specie of bird’s migration journey. To contrast there two types of scenes, they would show a scene displaying the beauty of birds in the wild followed by a distressing …show more content…
Throughout the entire film, there is a lack of voice used in order to display the natural beauty of the birds and their sounds. The producers of the film integrated the birds sounds into pieces of classical music. There are two scenes in which birds are being domesticated and put behind cages; in both of these scenes music is used in order to tell the story the birds could not. They used very daunting music whenever the humans approached the birds in order to display a negative presence. However what made the musical approach unique and effective way they used the sounds of the birds flapping their wings, and the birds chirping in the music. The way they showed their argument is once the birds are domesticated they stopped using the birds noises as a way of music. There is a particular scene in the last few moments of the movie in which a bird freed itself from a cage. As they showed the bird in the cage they played melancholy music, than as the birds escaped they played happy music with the chirps of the birds filled in every few seconds. The music is able to tell the story of the birds and how a bird responds to. It is also really important that the producers used such unnerving music whenever there is a human presence because it goes back to the films main argument. The music used throughout the film is able to effectively tell a better story than a voice or