Revealing The Leopard Analysis

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Revealing the Leopard is a documentary on the life of Leopards. This documentary was directed by Mark Fletcher. It was released in November 2010 .Revealing the Leopard focuses on a single mother and her two cubs. Throughout the documentary we are able to see how they survive in the wild, with considerably larger predators. Revealing the Leopard, like most documentaries, uses certain techniques to engage with the audience and create an appealing story. Techniques such as, a narrator with a strong and confident voice, camera angles, music, re-enactments, facts, interviews and exposition, are frequently used in documentaries. Revealing the Leopard used a narrator, music and camera angles, and facts, to engage the audience and tell a remarkable story.
The narrator, Jim Conrad, made a tremendous impact to the documentary. It was as if he knew what the leopards were thinking. Jim Conrad went into remarkable detail on each movement that the leopards made. By
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The narrator was able to keep the reader engaged. It also managed to make the audience emotionally connected to some of the characters. Music and camera angles worked together to exaggerate certain points and to set the tone for the scene. This helped the audience make a verdict on the character, given they had just been persuaded by the setting of the tone and the attention to detail. Lastly, using facts in the documentary helped the audience relate to the characters in a reality point of view. It educated the audience on the animal, which helped the audience make their decision. A documentary is used to creatively educate and convey the audience opinions and I think Revealing the Leopards achieved all of the requirement. It was able to show a side to the leopard that many had never seen and that is what a true documentary in meant to

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