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    the full experience on how to really live. The truth about SeaWorld is covered up and the director of this film wants the concealed secret of SeaWorld to finally come out. By using ethos, pathos and logos in the film Blackfish by Gabriella Cowperaite, she is able to expose awful truths about the park that they tried to keep sealed from everyone else bot involved with the whales…

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    Teen Activism

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    activist is because she was inspired by the documentary, ¨The Cove¨. ¨The Cove¨ is a documentary about a vicious dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan. Ever since then, she made it her mission to put an end to harming these animals. And lastly, Ella Van Cleave is a very powerful teen activist because she created a campaign. This is because she wants make a documentary that spreads awareness about protecting aquatic species. And this campaign helps her to raise money for film equipment. She's such a smart…

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    Marcel Mettelsiefen’s documentary “Children of Syria” tells one family’s story of surviving in Syria’s war-torn city of Aleppo. After their father is kidnapped, the family begins their journey to Germany to escape the violence in Syria and start a new life. The documentary, which debuted on the TV program “Frontline”, films the family and their experience for over three years. The hour long segment mainly focuses on the children Sara, Farah, Helen and Mohammed. Producers used multiple…

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    Opdocs

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    OpDoc and Documentary Filmmaking Assessment: In looking at all ten of these OpDocs, it is clear that each filmmaker is intent on depicting the people and places featured in a specific way, but each uses different techniques to achieve a similar goal. OpDocs are different than general documentaries because they focus in on getting the audience to feel a specific way about a given issue. Although other forms of documentary filmmaking may also do that, OpDocs seem to zone in on smaller details…

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    released an episode on the 28th of April, 1988, titled “Death on the rock”, edited by Robert Bolton, discussing the shootings of three IRA members in Gibraltar. The documentary goes into detail about the events leading up to the shooting, asking questions about the legality of the actions taken by the British government and the SAS. The documentary uncovers their own pieces of evidence and tries to put together a more thorough picture of the events, compared to the one given by the state. To get…

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    advertise the game Overwatch. The trailer started with a narration of a documentary film that is a flashback that serves two purposes, set the setting or create the framework of the overwatch world, which used to have conflicts and wars, and give an overview or background information of what Overwatch is, “an elite international task force of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, oddities, and guardians.” The documentary film also act as a transition from the overview to the current timeframe of…

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    Before explaining the setting of the interview for the ethnography, I must first introduce my friend Roger, who will be my main participant in this process. Roger and I first met at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg during my first semester and we soon became friends, due to the fact that the both of us loved critiquing movies. Although his major is in Anthropology, he stated that the Big Bang Theory was one of his favorite sitcoms. Despite the series based on the physics and associated…

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    Furthermore, I remember in the documentary, “Embrace” the director did mention that in India women who “plumper” were desirable because that was an immediate indication that you were wealthy enough to feast; thus, a desirable partner, has now changed as well to thinner being more desirable, at least to women. The documentary, “Embrace” showed young girls in pageants and shows such as ‘Top Model’. One critique I do have for the documentary, and even the research is that when we talk…

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    Casey Hopkins Professor Kristen Hoggatt-Abader English 101 10/15/15 Title – Michael Moore is able to effectively convince his audience that capitalism is having a negative effect on America through his use of ethos, pathos, and logos. Through Michael Moore’s use of graphs and statistics, he is able to appeal to the viewer and tell them that Capitalism isn’t working for the United States. Moore points out that “Millions of people were thrown out of work, and the remaining workers were told…

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    People to Pursue Conflicts in Their Lives? What began as a new form of entertainment with The Real World in the 1990s, has progressed to become reality TV, a questionable influence to millions throughout the country. The specific sub-genre of documentary-style reality television, such as Jersey Shore and 16 and Pregnant, follows the lives of either regular people or celebrities, showing their everyday activities. These shows contain a lot of drama and altercations, something we as humans have…

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